Air PollutionAir Pollution Chapter 17

Final Exam

Tuesday May 7

7 - 10 pm

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Conflict exam: Thursday May 9

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Global warmingGlobal warming

Possible Effects of A Warmer World

• Changes in food production

– Changes in forests

– Biodiversity reduction

• Rising Sea Level

• Wider Temperature Extremes

Global warmingGlobal warming

How restrain global warming?

Reduce carbon emission

1997 Kyoto Protocols

U.S. & 100 nations agree to reduce CO2 emissions 7% below 1990 level by 2010

Now opposed by U.S.

Global warmingGlobal warming

Global warmingGlobal warming

How restrain global warming?

Some corporations have cut CO2

Global warmingGlobal warming

How restrain global warming?

Some corporations have cut CO2

China appears to be cutting CO2

Global warmingGlobal warming

Global warmingGlobal warming

Global warmingGlobal warming

How restrain global warming?

Some corporations have cut CO2

China appears to be cutting CO2

Encourage alternatives to fossil fuels

Global warmingGlobal warming

How restrain global warming?

Some corporations have cut CO2

China appears to be cutting CO2

Encourage alternatives to fossil fuels

Sequester carbon?

Global warmingGlobal warmingSequester carbon?

pump into depleted oil wells?

bury in ocean depths?

Clear Skies Initiative

announced 2/2002

but not yet proposed to Congress

Clear Skies Initiative

Scrap the 1970 Clean Air Act which required new power plants to clean SO2 emissions

Shift to “cap and trade” free market trading of pollution permits

Claims 73% reduction in SO2 by 2018

Solid WasteSolid Waste

Throwaway life styleThrowaway life style

Ch. 18Ch. 18

Solid WasteSolid Waste

Throwaway life styleThrowaway life style

Municipal solid wasteMunicipal solid waste

Municipal Solid WasteMunicipal Solid Waste

220 million tons/year in U.S.

Municipal Solid WasteMunicipal Solid Waste

0.73 tons/year per person.

Methods of Waste DisposalMethods of Waste Disposal

Dumps & FillsDumps & Fills e.g. Bostone.g. Boston

Methods of Waste DisposalMethods of Waste Disposal

Dumps & FillsDumps & Fills e.g. San Franciscoe.g. San Francisco

garbagegarbage

Methods of Waste DisposalMethods of Waste Disposal

Dumps & FillsDumps & Fills

LandfillsLandfillsusually linedusually lined

Methods of Waste DisposalMethods of Waste Disposal

Livingston LandfillLivingston Landfill

Possible to generate methanePossible to generate methane

LandfillsLandfills

56 in Illinois56 in Illinois

LandfillsLandfills

LandfillsLandfills

~57% of U.S. solid waste goes to ~57% of U.S. solid waste goes to landfillslandfills

Methods of Waste DisposalMethods of Waste Disposal

IncinerationIncineration

problem of air pollutionproblem of air pollution

LandfillsLandfills

Methods of Waste DisposalMethods of Waste Disposal

IncinerationIncineration

problem of air pollutionproblem of air pollution

LandfillsLandfills

Methods of Waste DisposalMethods of Waste Disposal

IncinerationIncineration

problem of air pollutionproblem of air pollution

problem of hospital wastesproblem of hospital wastes

LandfillsLandfills

Methods of Waste DisposalMethods of Waste Disposal

IncinerationIncineration

problem of air pollutionproblem of air pollution

problem of hospital wastesproblem of hospital wastes

LandfillsLandfills

RecyclingRecycling

Reduction of wasteReduction of waste individualindividual behaviorbehavior

RecyclingRecycling

RecyclingRecycling

RecyclingRecycling

Reducing Solid WasteReducing Solid Waste

composting

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Toxic Waste

established in 1980established in 1980

to clean up the worst sitesto clean up the worst sites funded by a billion $ tax on industryfunded by a billion $ tax on industry which expired in 1995which expired in 1995

Toxic Waste

Toxic Waste

~80 sites cleaned per year in the ‘90’s

now plan to clean ~45 per year

shifting the cost to taxpayer