Who gets to be a legitimate member of the community?

Begin by looking at a specific visual or textual representation of people in the news, and consider the ways that representation offers, denies, or constructs conditions of legitimacy for them as individuals, communities, or states. Who gets to be a legitimate member of the community, how do we know this, and why? How and why is legitimacy, statehood, or inclusion denied? Use Said’s essay as a lens to develop a specific argument about the process of legitimization at work in the text that you have chosen. Explore one or more of his pairs of terms—presence and absence, mobility and insecurity, dislocation and location, statelessness and exile—as a way of considering what is lost and what is gained in our textual representations of one another.

Describe the greenhouse effect and its importance to life on earth.

1. What are the EPA�s seven criteria pollutants and their sources? Discuss the environmental and health effects of each pollutant.

Your response must be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

 

2. Describe the greenhouse effect and its importance to life on earth. What are the ways in which human activity is increasing heat storage in the atmosphere?

Your response must be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

 

3. Discuss three of the main disputes about climate change that are often heard and read in the popular media. Do you think that any of these claims are valid? Why, or why not?

Your response must be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

 

4. What are �dead zones,� and how do they form? What are the sources of pollution that cause cultural eutrophication?

How is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) different from previous legislation addressing solid waste?

Question 1.

 

Write an essay consisting of at least 500 words addressing all of the following topics (a through h):

a. How is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) different from previous legislation addressing solid waste?

b. On the Internet, search for “40CFR261.21” which is the portion of the Code of Federal Regulations pertaining to ignitability under RCRA. Quote two lines from that portion of the CFR.

c. What are the differences between RCRA Subtitle C and Subtitle D?

d. Describe the cradle to grave tracking process instituted by RCRA.

e. List at least three standards for a Treatment, Storage, or Disposal Facility (TSDF) under RCRA?

f. How is CERCLA different than RCRA?

g. Using an Internet search, determine how many sites are currently on the National Priorities List (NPL).

h. What is a brownfield?

You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

 

 

Question 2.

 

Write an essay consisting of at least 500 words addressing all of the following topics (a through h):

a. Explain the features of solid waste landfill design that were new with the passing of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).

b. On the Internet, search for “40CFR279.30” which is the portion of the Code of Federal Regulations pertaining to “Do-it-yourselfer used oil collection centers.” Quote two lines from that portion of the CFR.

c. How do the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments (HSWA) of 1984 service to supplement the RCRA of 1976?

d. Explain the permitting system instituted by RCRA.

e. Summarize monetary penalties that are used in enforcement under RCRA.

f. Why is CERCLA commonly called “Superfund”?

g. Describe the Hazard Ranking System (HRS) with respect to the process of having a site listed on the National Priorities List (NPL).

h. Explain the Underground Storage Tank (UST) program under RCRA.