Download or read book EPA Should Help Small Communities Cope with Federal Pollution Control Requirements written by United States Accounting Office (GAO) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EPA Should Help Small Communities Cope With Federal Pollution Control Requirements
Download or read book EPA Should Help Small Communities Cope with Federal Pollution Control Requirements written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book EPA Should Help Small Communities Cope with Federal Pollution Control Requirements written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Natural Resources and Environment written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO selected nine small communities in New England and the Pacific Northwest to do an in-depth analysis of the social and economic problems caused by federally funded sewage systems. GAO also obtained information on an additional 20 communities affected by two or more federal pollution control requirements, to determine if the multiple pollution control requirements caused problems in these communities. Small communities face higher per capita costs and a lack of technical expertise in complying with federal environmental regulations. GAO believes the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must make a special effort to help these communities. Among the problems discovered were inadequate justification for building new sewer systems, social and economic hardships, frustration by nontechnical local officials who are responsible for these highly technical projects, and overbuilt sewage systems. Many of these problems could be eliminated by better EPA review of project plans and more technical assistance for small communities. The increased costs of complying with multiple requirements of recent federal pollution legislation compound the problems small communities face in meeting the requirements. GAO believes EPA needs to experiment with comprehensive approaches to pollution control for small communities such as: federal block grants for the most pressing environmental problems, a special technical assistance coordinator to assist communities in planning programs, phased implementation of federal requirements when concurrent implementation would be too costly, and suspension and waiver of requirements when costs are high and the potential environmental benefits are minimal or the project is environmentally harmful.
Download or read book EPA should help small communities cope with Federal pollution control requirements written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reducing Risk written by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Relative Risk Reduction Strategies Committee and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Community based Environmental Protection written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Municipal Water Pollution Prevention Program written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Law Handbook written by Christopher L. Bell and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Twentieth Edition references all regulatory changes made in the last two years and provides legal insight into understanding the requirements of the environmental laws. It examines all of the issues and changes that have arisen since the publication of the last edition.
Download or read book Urban Stormwater Management in the United States written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid conversion of land to urban and suburban areas has profoundly altered how water flows during and following storm events, putting higher volumes of water and more pollutants into the nation's rivers, lakes, and estuaries. These changes have degraded water quality and habitat in virtually every urban stream system. The Clean Water Act regulatory framework for addressing sewage and industrial wastes is not well suited to the more difficult problem of stormwater discharges. This book calls for an entirely new permitting structure that would put authority and accountability for stormwater discharges at the municipal level. A number of additional actions, such as conserving natural areas, reducing hard surface cover (e.g., roads and parking lots), and retrofitting urban areas with features that hold and treat stormwater, are recommended.
Download or read book Community Culture and the Environment written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dumping In Dixie written by Robert D. Bullard and published by Avalon Publishing - (Westview Press). This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To be poor, working-class, or a person of color in the United States often means bearing a disproportionate share of the country’s environmental problems. Starting with the premise that all Americans have a basic right to live in a healthy environment, Dumping in Dixie chronicles the efforts of five African American communities, empowered by the civil rights movement, to link environmentalism with issues of social justice. In the third edition, Bullard speaks to us from the front lines of the environmental justice movement about new developments in environmental racism, different organizing strategies, and success stories in the struggle for environmental equity.
Download or read book How EPA Works written by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Management and Organization Division and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Justice and Natural Resources written by Kathryn Mutz and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just over two decades ago, research findings that environmentally hazardous facilities were more likely to be sited near poor and minority communities gave rise to the environmental justice movement. Yet inequitable distribution of the burdens of industrial facilities and pollution is only half of the problem; poor and minority communities are often denied the benefits of natural resources and can suffer disproportionate harm from decisions about their management and use. Justice and Natural Resources is the first book devoted to exploring the concept of environmental justice in the realm of natural resources. Contributors consider how decisions about the management and use of natural resources can exacerbate social injustice and the problems of disadvantaged communities. Looking at issues that are predominantly rural and western -- many of them involving Indian reservations, public lands, and resource development activities -- it offers a new and more expansive view of environmental justice. The book begins by delineating the key conceptual dimensions of environmental justice in the natural resource arena. Following the conceptual chapters are contributions that examine the application of environmental justice in natural resource decision-making. Chapters examine: how natural resource management can affect a range of stakeholders quite differently, distributing benefits to some and burdens to others the potential for using civil rights laws to address damage to natural and cultural resources the unique status of Native American environmental justice claims parallels between domestic and international environmental justice how authority under existing environmental law can be used by Federal regulators and communities to address a broad spectrum of environmental justice concerns Justice and Natural Resources offers a concise overview of the field of environmental justice and a set of frameworks for understanding it. It expands the previously urban and industrial scope of the movement to include distribution of the burdens and access to the benefits of natural resources, broadening environmental justice to a truly nationwide concern.
Download or read book Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems Manual written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This manual contains overview information on treatment technologies, installation practices, and past performance."--Introduction.
Download or read book Better Air written by Jessica Lincoln-Oswalt and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authorities and responsibilities of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) derive primarily from a dozen major environmental statutes. This book provides a concise summary of one of those statutes, the Clean Air Act. It provides a brief history of federal involvement in air quality regulation and of the provisions added by legislation in 1970, 1977 and 1990. It also explains major authorities contained in the Act as well as key terms and references for more detailed information on the Act and its implementation.
Download or read book Final Generic Environmental Impact Statement for Wastewater Management in Rural Lake Areas written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
