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Air Pollution Chapter 17
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Final Exam Tuesday May 7 7 - 10 pm Foellinger Auditorium Conflict exam: Thursday May 9 sign up with Karin Nelson EEE 105 http://www.life.uiuc.edu/animalbiology/105/ Name: eee105Password: prAIRie 7 - 10 pm
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Final Exam Tuesday May 7 7 - 10 pm Foellinger Auditorium Review: Sunday May 5 5 pm 112 Gregory EEE 105 http://www.life.uiuc.edu/animalbiology/105/ Name: eee105Password: prAIRie
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Final Exam Tuesday May 7 7 - 10 pm Foellinger Auditorium Coverage: cumulative with special emphasis on March 4, 8, 11 & April 10 - May 1 EEE 105 http://www.life.uiuc.edu/animalbiology/105/ Name: eee105Password: prAIRie
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Global warming
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Possible Effects of A Warmer World Changes in food production –Changes in forests –Biodiversity reduction Rising Sea Level Wider Temperature Extremes
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Global 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.
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Global warming
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How restrain global warming? Some corporations have cut CO 2
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Global warming How restrain global warming? Some corporations have cut CO 2 China appears to be cutting CO 2
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Global warming
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How restrain global warming? Some corporations have cut CO 2 China appears to be cutting CO 2 Encourage alternatives to fossil fuels
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Global warming How restrain global warming? Some corporations have cut CO 2 China appears to be cutting CO 2 Encourage alternatives to fossil fuels Sequester carbon?
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Global warming Sequester carbon? pump into depleted oil wells? bury in ocean depths?
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Clear Skies Initiative announced 2/2002 but not yet proposed to Congress
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Clear Skies Initiative Scrap the 1970 Clean Air Act which required new power plants to clean SO 2 emissions Shift to “cap and trade” free market trading of pollution permits Claims 73% reduction in SO 2 by 2018
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Solid Waste Throwaway life style Ch. 18
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Solid Waste Throwaway life style Municipal solid waste
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Municipal Solid Waste 220 million tons/year in U.S.
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Municipal Solid Waste 0.73 tons/year per person.
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Methods of Waste Disposal Dumps & Fills e.g. Boston e.g. Boston
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Methods of Waste Disposal Dumps & Fills e.g. San Francisco e.g. San Francisco
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garbage Methods of Waste Disposal Dumps & Fills Landfills usually lined
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Methods of Waste Disposal Livingston Landfill
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Possible to generate methane
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Landfills 56 in Illinois
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Landfills
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Landfills ~57% of U.S. solid waste goes to landfills
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Methods of Waste Disposal Incineration problem of air pollution problem of air pollution Landfills
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Methods of Waste Disposal Incineration problem of air pollution problem of air pollution Landfills
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Methods of Waste Disposal Incineration problem of air pollution problem of air pollution problem of hospital wastes Landfills
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Methods of Waste Disposal Incineration problem of air pollution problem of air pollution problem of hospital wastes Landfills Recycling Reduction of waste individual individual behavior behavior
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Recycling
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Recycling
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Recycling
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Reducing Solid Waste composting Page 413
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Toxic Waste established in 1980 to clean up the worst sites funded by a billion $ tax on industry which expired in 1995
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Toxic Waste
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~80 sites cleaned per year in the ‘90’s now plan to clean ~45 per year shifting the cost to taxpayer
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