I've heard the EPA won't let people mine pollution cleanup because they think it's immoral.  Is this true?
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Contact the EPA. They are a government entity. They have folks who can answer these kinds of questions for you.
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I would like to Change the Clinton/Gore EPA-OBD II Law. This applies to all Gasoline Powered Vehicles in the USA from 1996 to the Present, like Yours. This Law requires that all Vehicles remain Factory Stock, in order to Pass Inspection. Specifically, the Engine Fuel System must Run at 14.7 Parts of Air to 1 Part of Fuel. I've found a way to Convert Gasoline into Propane, 100 Parts of Air to 1 Part of Fuel. My Unit is Safe, Compact, and uses Low Pressure Air to do it's thing. 50 + MPG with even the Largest SUV, and a 10 X Reduction of Emissions. And, thanks to the EPA-OBD II Law, it's Illegal! When that Gestapo-Inspired Vehicle Inspection Device is Connected, any Change at all, even for the Better, and the Vhicle will Fail, and will be Illegal to Drive! Because it's not Putting out enough Pollution to meet [O]riginal [E]quipment [M]anufacturer's Specifications! This is Insane! I'm not the First, only the Latest. I've been to the US Patent Office to Check out the "Wild Stories" about Fuel Vaporizers that have been kept off the Market. Guess What? It's True! Case in Point, the Pogue Carburetor, with a Patented Claim of 100 MPG, with a Flathead Ford Engine Powered Vehicle that was 15 MPG!This was before WW II. So, as far as Getting a Patent, forget it! See, Greed and Money have Stopped it Every Single Time! And Now the EPA-OBD II Law....... Here's what I'd really Like to do to Expose the Hypocricy of this Law. I'd like to Restore and Convert a whole Fleet of Vehicles and Donate them to Charity Starting with the Local Meals-On-Wheels Program, then, Volunteer Disabled Veterans' Services.And so Many Others. There is no Shortage of Good People that want to Volunteer to Help the less Fortunate. But with the High Cost of Fuel, it's becoming Increasingly Difficult. Even if I did manage to get the Funds to do this, someone Connected with "Big Oil" would find a way to make One of the Converted Vehicles Explode, to Discredit it. Remember the TV News Show where the Chevy Truck with the "Side-Saddle" Fuel Tank was Rigged to Explode to Discredit It? See, all Petroleum is essentially the Same, on a Molecular Level. Only the Dispersal is Altered. If That's Wrong, then how is it that Engines DO Run on Propane? To do so by Conventional Means is such a Hassle that it's just not worth it! Hybirds? At Highway Speeds, the Gas [14.7 to1] Engine Kicks-In, Plus, the Heavy, Expensive Batteries have to be Hauled. To Sum Up, I'd like to change the EPA-OBD II Law that requires Vehicles to Emit Enough Pollution to Pass Inspection, with any reduction resulting in Failure. But, "IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN" as long as "Big Oil" is in Control! Watch Closely the Next Time Your Car is Inspected, and ask how many have Failed,and Why! 14.7 to 1. It's the Law that must Change! For even more Insight, check out this Website. It's a Couple of Years Old, but lots of Good Info.http://energy21.freeservers.com/bookrep.html
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I think that in this day and age, it is not practical to avoid doing anything that might harm the environment.  I consider myself a true environmentalist but I still drive my mom's minivan.  Al Gore never said in his movie that we should all pound our cars into whatever, maybe bury them and and walk everywhere or get horses.  He said, "If you can, by a hybrid."\n\nIt is our duty to ourselves and to our children and to God and to his creation to do what we can that is also practical to not harm the Earth.  And so I do.\n\nI went to the theatre and bought a ticket and admired Gore for getting back up after losing the election and fighting for what he believes in.  Yes, he had to be driven around in a car.  What would you expect him to do?  Walk or ride on horseback all over the U.S.?  I, however, personally don't agree that he should have flown when he could have driven, maybe his own car.  But that may have taken too long.  I think flying expends too much fuel.  As for charging admission for the movie, I went on the website about the movie and it said that at least a portion of this goes to the cause.  I forget how much.  I think it was worth every penny, anyway.\n\nI walk to the store, instead of driving because it is only 7 blocks away from my house.  When I go to the store, I bring cloth bags with me to avoid using their plastic bags.  When they put my groceries in their plastic bags before I can put them in my bags, I then take them out, put them in my cloth bags and then hand the plastic bags to them.  I buy distilled water because it is healthier than tap water but I have bought 2 of the gallon jugs of it from our stores "Water Island" and when we run out, I simply go and refill it at the Water Island for only 35 cents.  I never buy spring water or mineral water.  It is true like it says in Gore's movie, that this makes the springs, etc., smaller and hurts the wildlife that lives there.  I support, instead, distilling and recycling the water we use locally.\n\nI am saving up for a hybirid but I cannot afford to buy one right now.  I try to cut down on the elctricity that we use in the house.  In the summer, many times, I use the grill with charcoal instead of our electric stove.  We don't have lights on during the day.\n\nAnd when we go somewhere and are going to meet friends there, going to church, etc, we carpool, meaning we pick them up or they pick us up so we can save on gas.\n\nAt work, I am the one saving the empty boxes our merchandise comes in and taking them home to be recycled at the end of the day, that they were simply going to throw out.\n\nI am a memeber of a group called Freecycle, which is www.freecycle.com.  They have chapters all over the world and in many cities of the United States.  On this website, people give things away that they don't want anymore without having to throw them away or find a resale shop to drop them off at.  The person who answers your post simply comes and picks it up.  How many of you know someone who throws out a perfectly good pair of shoes that are only mildly worn?  I know lots of people.\n\nI recycle everything that can be.  When I am walking and I find an empty plastic bottle laying on the ground, I pick it up and take it home with me to be recycled.  The garbage bags I am using right now are from recycled plastic and it is taking me months to use them up because between the two of us in my house, we throw out very little, and recycle or compost the rest.  Our local recycling plant only accepts #1 #2 plastics, so we save all the other plastics, yogurt containers, etc. that are #3- #7 plastics and mail them to a plant in Romulus, MI about and hour's drive from us.\n\nWhen I go to church and they always have bulletins for us and music sheets to read, a lot of people leave these in the pews or they pile up on a shelf outside the santuary or even in the garbage and I stay after and gather all these things, even out of the garbage if
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Absolutely yes. Among the threats are dumping of acid waste from the extraction process, leaching of mine "tailings" (see ref. 1), and possible emission of the highly toxic compound nickel carbonyl (see ref. 2) an intermediary in the process of purifying nickel.
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Your question seems to be: "Is the environment in danger because of you?"  Is this what you mean to ask?  (It's not really clear.)\n\nIf this is your meaning, then on a personal level, I don't feel any more responsible than should the collective human race - and I would add that YES, the human race is a detriment to the environment, very obviously.\n\nThe issue is not whether people are threatening the environment - the issue is how much industrial and economic activity is too much for the environment to accomodate?  We aren't retreating to caves and hunting and gathering, so the question concerns what public policies need we pursue to ensure a sufficiently (not necessarily perfectly) healthy environment for people and wildlife?
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Go to their homepage (www.epa.gov) and read their mission statement..Im sure you will find more than you ever wanted to know about environmental stuff there..
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Yes, because I have pets and their health is valuable to me, along with my own health and safety.  Not only that, we need more products that don't hurt the environment.  We don't need to be breathing chemicals in our houses.  I'm a cancer survivor and I'm a firm believer that environmental hazardous products cause about 90% of cancers, whether it be aluminium in deoderant to ammonia in cleaners.  I feel it breaks down the body's natural defenses to illness.
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There are a Chemical disposal company. Safe disposal so doesn't effect earth
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Be careful with that tank.  Whether or not it's illegal, it can cause very expensive damage if it leaks.  The problem is, in most cases, the homeowner doesn't know about the leak until it has already caused considerable damage and the EPA has to be involved in the cleanup.  In NJ, homeowners are required to exhume oil tanks prior to selling a property although it's not illegal to have one yet.
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Coal is not animal. It is not vegetable. There is only one thing left. Mineral. Deduction. It works.
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Yes it is....it not only violates moral ethics, but may also violate your workplace ethics as well.  Speak to your superiors about this situation because it may have been going on for quite some time....
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There is enough evidence as it is. It is happening, and the reasons may be natural (interglacials, etc) or man-made (which would be, ultimately, "natural" too), but that doesn't matter because the effects are altering the world right now. \nI think the people who always advocate for "more evidence" and "further consideration" instead of real action about pollution issues are those interested in their immediate benefits. I guess they want to buy more time to continue earning their profits, or maybe they think that anything we can do is useless. \nThe Kyoto protocol has been around for a while now, and guess which countries have been refusing to compromise?
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Yees everyone should practice Ahimsa. Do no harm to anything. If more people did then the world would be a much better place. \n\nIf every person not only picked up their own trash but picked up a few extra pieces left by someone else each time it would do wonders.\n\nPeople are not taught to do these things. Integrity is a rare commodity these days. \n\nParents need to teach their children.\n\nAnd to the previous poster YES we can make a difference. We are after all the ones who created the mess so it only stands to reason that we can fix it as well. It is attitudes like that that perpetuate the problem. "Oh forget it we can't do anything so why try?" Thats crazy. You don't have to be a tree hugger to care. Just have some respect. Its not about the earth being able to eradicate the human race and take care of itself it is about quality of life and respect. If people cared more for others and the earth there would be more peace and a much better quality of life for everyone while we are here. Perhaps the earth wouldnt feel the need to eradicate us if we take better care of it and were not a negative influence.
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I can't believe how many answerers didn't get it. I got it. It's another example of the 'forced' liberalism causing lost work. Just like what could be the safest and most productive oil fields, isn't even started on, because of the liberal environmentalists. I worked in that industry for a while, needless to say, I don't anymore.
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Its available. R-12 & R-22 are restricted by the EPA and being phased out.
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If what you are saying is true, then some of us are here to buy Plastics & Rubber maid products, & some of us will destroy & even better, Burn these products just so that someone else can lay -claim for wrongfull deaths & injuries. Some of us are even here to Sell & Clean up these products that so badly ruin our Planets Atmosphere. Some of us might even wonder what these products are really here for. Some of us will even go as far & say that these products are here to better man kind, & finally some of us don't even get it.
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recycling material is A. harder than what you get out of it and B it porduces green house gases that you know about and C it costs a shit load more than just dumping it in a land fill and getting thousands of years of methane out of it. and also why isn't there a no green house gases law, or no sex before your married law, or a morally correct law that bans gays from marrying (which i oppose) because this is America stupid, and i have a right to do with my garbage whatever the hell i want with it (except litter) YAY