Air
Pamela Hill
in Environmental Protection: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Why is clean air important?
Each person takes in more than three thousand gallons of air a day to stay alive. The quality of that air is key to good health. Moreover, polluted air ...
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Avoiding the Worst Impacts
Joseph Romm
in Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know
This chapter will examine the 2°C warming target. It will explain why the major governments and scientific associations have embraced it as the limit for minimizing/avoiding ...
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Beyond Hydrofracking
Alex Prud’Homme
in Hydrofracking: What Everyone Needs to Know®
The shale gas industry is still in its adolescence. And as adolescents are wont to do, it presents us with a dilemma: while the energy supplies in shale are too important to overlook, the ...
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The Built Environment
Pamela Hill
in Environmental Protection: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is the built environment?
The term “built environment” refers to the places that people have designed and constructed for living, working, and recreation. It includes homes, ...
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The Case Against Hydrofracking
Alex Prud’Homme
in Hydrofracking: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Hydrofracturing is not a gentle process. Sucking oil and gas from dense shale formations involves drilling, explosions, toxic chemicals, and millions of gallons of water pumped at crushing ...
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The Case for Hydrofracking
Alex Prud’Homme
in Hydrofracking: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Who Benefits?
Many have profited financially from hydrofracking, from George Mitchell, who made billions of dollars by inventing “slickwater” fracturing, to truck drivers in North ...
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Climate Change
Pamela Hill
in Environmental Protection: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is climate change?
Climate change means long-term changes in atmospheric conditions—including temperature, wind patterns, and precipitation. Although climate fluctuations such ...
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Climate Change and You
Joseph Romm
in Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know
This chapter will explore some of the more personal questions that climate change raises for individuals and their families.
How will climate change impact ...
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Climate Politics and Policies
Joseph Romm
in Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know
This chapter will explain the most commonly used or discussed climate policies around the world. It will also explore some of the issues involving climate politics.
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Climate Science Basics
Joseph Romm
in Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know
This chapter focuses on climate science as it applies to what science can tell us about the changes we have observed to date and what caused them. The goal is to answer the key ...
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Ecosystems
Pamela Hill
in Environmental Protection: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is an ecosystem?
The environment is often seen as made up of distinct parts operating more or less independently of each other. Viewed this way, protecting the environment ...
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Energy In Context: A Fossil Fuel Primer: What, How, and Where?
Alex Prud’Homme
in Hydrofracking: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What Are Fossil Fuels?
Buried deep in the earth are the remnants of earlier life forms—hundreds of millennia of rotting vegetation, decaying animals, and marine plankton. Today ...
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Environmental Justice
Pamela Hill
in Environmental Protection: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How is justice a part of environmental protection?
A safe, healthy environment is considered by many to be a basic human right. Like any goal embraced and implemented in various ...
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Environmental Laws
Pamela Hill
in Environmental Protection: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is environmental law in the United States?
In the United States environmental law consists of laws enacted by Congress and by state legislatures to address environmental ...
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Environmental Protection: An Introduction
Pamela Hill
in Environmental Protection: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is the environment?
Various materials and conditions, some natural and some made by humans, affect life on earth. Taken together, they form the environment. Sunlight is part ...
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Environmental Protection and the Economy
Pamela Hill
in Environmental Protection: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Are environmental protection and economic growth compatible?
Without doubt, economic growth has put an enormous strain on the environmental resources that power it. In fact, the ...
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Environmental Protection and the Global Community
Pamela Hill
in Environmental Protection: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Is protecting the environment a global concern?
Yes, and this is a relatively recent development, roughly tracking the modern environmental movement of the late twentieth century. ...
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Extreme Weather and Climate Change
Joseph Romm
in Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know
Extreme weather is the earliest manifestation of climate change that most people will be exposed to. This chapter will focus on what science tells us about the remarkable spate ...
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The Future
Pamela Hill
in Environmental Protection: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are the greatest threats to the environment today?
We all should be deeply concerned about our planet as we move further into the twenty-first century. Even though the science ...
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The Future of Fracking: Today and Tomorrow
Alex Prud’Homme
in Hydrofracking: What Everyone Needs to Know®
There is now a great deal of research and assessment being done on hydrofracking by government agencies, the industry, academics, inventors, and environmentalists, and the fruits of their ...
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