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Air PollutionAir Pollution Chapter 17
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: eee105 Password: prAIRie
7 - 10 pm
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: eee105 Password: prAIRie
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: eee105 Password: prAIRie
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