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Theresa H. (TH) Taylor V. (TV) Myranda W. (MW) Environmental Protection "Should the government spend more money and time on conserving the enviorment or on other things such as military manufacturing or industrial growth?"

Cooper, Mary H. "Saving Open Spaces." __CQ Researcher__ 9.42 (1999): 953-976. __CQ Researcher Online__. CQ Press. Your library's name, city, state abbreviation. 23 April 2009 . http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre1999110500
 * 1) One of the America’s (and the world) most cherishes assets, open spaces is being used up for things other people see essential. (MW)
 * 2) As Richard Moe, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation quotes, “You see residential subdivisions spreading like inkblots, obliterating forests and farms in their relentless march across the landscape.” (MW)
 * 3) In the Southwestern areas like Arizona rapid growth is threatening the regions water resources. (MW)
 * 4) Land conservation is one of the few issues that defies partisanship (or both sides agree on the same things). (MW)
 * 5) Property right advocates oppose funding of the Land and Water Conservation Funding because it would lead to the government controlling massive amounts of land that owners would try to sell. (MW)
 * 6) Property rights and public rights issues clash. (MW)
 * 7) A common question brought up is should the federal government spend money on conserving open land and other environmental funds? (MW)
 * 8) In a recent poll over 80% of the people voted that money should be used to create forests, conserving land, expanding national parks, and creating new ones. (MW)
 * 9) Does the government already own enough land? (MW)
 * 10) Can they properly take care of it or will they need to resell it in order to keep up money income? (MW)
 * 11) Tax payers will have to put their money into maintaining the land. (MW)
 * 12) The millions of dollars spent on keeping up land could go better elsewhere. (MW)

"EPA issues designations on ozone health standards." (Industry News)( Enviornmental Protection Agency) Pollution Engineering, June 2004 v36 i6 p10(1). //Science Resource Center//. Gale. 28 April 2009 

13. 18 states in the Us are meeting more protective enviormental standards. Popular demand to start a change. (MW)

Cooper, M. H. (1998, June 19). Environmental justice. //CQ Researcher//, //8//, 529-552. Retrieved April 28, 2009, from CQ Researcher Online, http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/cqresrre1998061900. 14. Many low incomecommunities can't afford to improve the enviorment/protect themselves from enviormental threats (air and water pollution) (MW) 15. Clinton's 1994 enviormental executive justice order was not recognized till ten years later. The goernment doesn't care. (MW)

Marshall, Patrick G. "The Greening of Eastern Europe." __CQ Researcher__ 1.26 (1991): 849-872. __CQ Researcher Online__. CQ Press. Your library's name, city, state abbreviation. 29 April 2009 16. The United States are not the only one who are having problem with pollution. (MW) 17. In Polland 65% of the irvers are so polluted that industries can't even use water because it corrodes machinery. (MW) 18. In Hungary over 700 communities inport their water because there are pesticides in their well water. (MW) 19. 13,000 Pollish children have pollution related diseases. (MW) 20. The United States is aiding other countiries giving up money (which some might sy could better be used elsewhere) and the 60 million dollars "isn't enough money to clean up more than a few sites". (MW) 21. With wavering economies can Easter European cnountries stay commited to enviormental problems? (MW)

Cooper, Mary H. "Energy and the Environment." __CQ Researcher__ 10.8 (2000): 161-184. __CQ Researcher Online__. CQ Press. Your library's name, city, state abbreviation. 29 April 2009 .

22. Serveral tends have come up over the past decade to improve air quality by changing car Transportation. (MW) 23. Because of the population growth there are many more cars on the road causing more problems. (MW)

Lander, Donn. (2009). //Military Spending Out of Control//. Retrieved 28 April 2009, from Website:http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2009/04/26/editorial/letters/0ac8ee1f451ca62d872575a30021279e.txt. 24. $922 billon is not part of the military spending budget and could be used elsewhere/ taking away fromspending on more important things. Not even half of a billion is being spent on Enviormental protection (MW)

Masci, D. (2004, June 11). Nanotechnology. //CQ Researcher//, //14//, 517-540. Retrieved April 28, 2009, from CQ Researcher Online, http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/cqresrre2004061100.

25. only $8.5 million of the 961 million is being used to study the potential impact of nanotechnology on health and the environment with nanotechnology (that can be used to clean toxic waste)

Weeks, Jennifer. "Protecting Wetlands." __CQ Researcher__ 18.34 (2008): 793-816. __CQ Researcher Online__. CQ Press. Your library's name, city, state abbreviation. 23 April 2009 . []  26. Many people build on wetlands, their homes and buildings get flooded and increase pollution in the water. [tv] 27. Costs tax payers and government lots of money to clean the water and make it safe for recreational activities and drinking water. [tv] 28. Many believe that the Clean Water Act is just a way for the government to control and regulate every activity of Americans with the involvement of water and land. [tv] 29. People feel that the clean water Act will be too costly and won’t provide assurance of cleaner water.[tv] 30. It’s also to be believed that where will the line be drawn as to whether something is polluting water or just harmless activity. People believe that the gov’t will try to regulate gutters, ditches, isolated wetlands, depressions in fields, and prairie potholes along with activities far from water that could potentially pollute water. [tv] Weeks, Jennifer. "Protecting Wetlands." __CQ Researcher__ 18.34 (2008): 793-816. __CQ Researcher Online__. CQ Press. Your library's name, city, state abbreviation. 23 April 2009 . http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre2008100300&type=hitlist&num=5 31. Eroding of Florida and the Louisiana coast are eroding daily [tv] []

__Source Water Protection__. April 26 2009 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. april 26 2009 . 32.Protecting source water is important because it's the water we use to drink and shower in among many other activities. [tv]

Kifferstein, Brad and Krantz, David. __Water Pollution and Society__. www.umich.edu/. april 26 2009 . 33. The world's most precious natural resource is water. [tv] 34. It is used in almost every activity and is a key ingredient in making anything, an essential to living.[tv] 35. The world is 70% water [tv] 36. It's apparent that humans are destroying their water resources with many activities including recreational and industrial but they continuously destroy it. [tv] 37. There is point source and nonpoint source pollution[tv] 38. Point source is when harmful substances are DIRECTLY put into the water [tv] 39. non point source is when harmful substances INDIRECTLY through climate changes [tv] 40. Exxon oil spill is a point source pollution [tv] 41. Fertilizer is a nonpoint source pollutant because it runs from fields into water ways [tv] 42. fertilizers cause excess nutrients in the water resulting in over growth of algae. [tv] 43. Over growth of algae case blocking of water ways. [tv] 44. Algae over growth also blocks the sunlight that helps other aquatics plants from growing. [tv] 45. Eutrophication fills the waters with sediment and organic matter that build up on the bottom[tv] 46. Algae takes the oxygen from aquatic plants and animals that cause them to die off [tv] 47. Algae disrupts the fish respiratory system [tv] 48. Bacteria tries to breakdown the algae using up all the oxygen and making oxygen unavailable for organisms on the bottom to get oxygen and it disrupts the food chain.[tv] 49. Pathogens:bacteria, viruses, and protozoan-cause typhoid and dysentery and respiratory and skin diseases [tv] 50. Radioactive waste from oil spills, medical, industrial science [tv] 51. Heat pollution decreases animal numbers because the aquatic animals are not used to high temperatures and can not change the temperature like humans can. [tv] 52. Water pollution can be classified in three ways: municipal, industrial, and agricultural [tv] 53. Municipal water pollution is caused by waste water from homes and commercial places. [tv] 54. Agricultural is from livestock and poultry farming [tv] 55. 95% of fresh water on earth is ground water [tv] 56. Aquifers are where ground water is found-bad if dries up! [tv] 57. Aquifers become contaminated by landfill and underground sewage tanks[tv] 58. in 1970 the Clean Water act was passed to reduce water pollution-$50 billion [tv] 59. 1.5 billion people don't have access to clean water [tv] 60. Contaminated water is responsible for at least 5 million deaths per year because of water diseases. [tv] 61. Eutrophication is when too many nutrients are in the water [tv] 62. eurtrophication causes aquatic animals and plants to die, making water unsanitary and not very eye pleasing [tv] 63. pollution in the air causes acid rain in other areas [tv] [] 64.Maryland spends $1,768 Total State & Local Environmental Spending(in millions) 2006 [tv] 65.Maryland State (vs. Local) Share of Environmental Spending 2006 27.3% [tv] 66.Maryland State & Local Environmental Spending Per Capita 2006 $316 [tv] 67.Maryland State & Local Environmental Spending as % of Personal Income 2006 0.7% [tv] Cooper, Mary H. "Saving Open Spaces." CQ Researcher 9.42 (1999): 953-976. CQ Researcher Online. CQ Press. Your library's name, city, state abbreviation. 23 April 2009 .

Fore 68. lose about 7,000 acres every single day- it becomes harder and harder for communities to then afford the price to protect the ones that are left. TH 69. enhance quality of life TH 70. save farms from being turned into malls, etc, TH 71. save parks from being paved over...TH 72. earth was here before people TH 73. less buildings means less pollution into the air, which means the ozone layer, animals, other environments that are homes to animals wont have to suffer TH 74. restore beauty to the earth TH 75. animals need homes too TH

Against 76. raises the taxes of people to pay for the preservation of lands TH 77. already owns more than the gov’t can take care of properly TH 78. the current appropriation must be stretched ever thinner to maintain more and more land TH 79. already budgets for Yellow Stone Park TH 80. removing money from the productive uses would make the economy go down 81. reduce tax base TH 82. would be burdened by maintaining costs of the land 83. constitution was made to secure the blessings of life, liberty and property to all citizens. TH

Price, Tom. "The New Environmentalism." CQ Researcher 16.42 (2006): 985-1008. CQ Researcher Online. CQ Press. Your library's name, city, state abbreviation. 23 April 2009 . Fore 84. Down the road, these forward-looking businesses will have a healthy, sustainable work force, clean water and quality of life that will enable them to have good employees and more consumers. Their ultimate incentive: You can't run a successful business in a failed world. TH 85. American public holds businesses to a higher standard on environmental issues than it does the U.S. government. TH 86. upgrading standards will improve on air quality, 87. increased number of businesses see sustainable products as a new part of their business TH 88. engineering or re-engineering those products to be recyclable TH 89. having recyclable products means that the land fills wont get filled up as quickly TH 90. safeguarding environment is best accomplished by governments, businesses and individuals working together. TH 91. with recyclable things there is less money is spent on remaking the same thing over and over again TH 92. Eating less meat is better for planet and health. Cows produce methane gas, kill ozone layer  à allows more UV light rays into the atmosphere <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"> à  skin cancer, kills plants <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"> à    <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> cant raise cows =D Th 93. A 2005 PricewaterhouseCoopers survey of chief executives in 43 countries found 87 percent saying environmental sustainability is important to company profits. That represented a rapid rise from 79 percent in 2004 and 69 percent in 2003. ]<span style="mso-bookmark: 'REF[14]';"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> TH Against 94. governments are responding to widespread public support for environmental protection, compensating for a disturbing lack of leadership in the White House and Congress TH

"Update: Global Warming." __Issues & Controversies On File__ 13 Apr. 2007. __Issues & Controversies__. Facts On File News Services. 29 Apr. 2009 <http://www.2facts.com>. 95. America shouls set an example for other to reduce GHG, the country has done just the opposite; in addition to refusing to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, the U.S. has allowed its overall greenhouse gas emissions to rise by more than 15% between 1990 and 2004. TH

96. April 2007, the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling in the //Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency// case, declaring that the U.S. government could impose federal limits on greenhouse gas emissions from cars. TH * empowers the EPA to more actively regulate pollution from the automobile industry, has been hailed by environmental activists who claim that the federal government is finally recognizing the gravity of the threat posed by global warming. TH

Weeks, Jennifer. "Buying Green." __CQ Researcher__ 18.9 (2008): 193-216. __CQ Researcher Online__. CQ Press. Your library's name, city, state abbreviation. 29 April 2009 <http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/cqresrre2008022900>. 97. About 500 billion dollars was spent by Americans in 2008 on buying products that claim to be economically friendly. (MW) 98. The key is "Buying Green". (MW) 99. trees don't always help the environment. Planting non-native species can soak up local water supplies and replace other valuable ecosystems such as prairie grassland. (MW) 100. Government officials often want to boost demand for green products, even if they cost somewhat more, because these goods reduce pollution, conserve energy or keep waste out of landfills. (MW)