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Environmental Issues and Actors - Coggle Diagram
Environmental Issues and Actors
Actors
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
The FWS (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
Congress
The president
Donald Trump
Barack Obama
"The Obama administration advanced vehicle fuel economy standards and a Clean Power Plan designed to reduce reliance on coal-fired power plants" (Vig, Kraft, and Rabe 23).
"The Trump White House proposed a large reduction in the EPA's staff of some 2,500 people below its modern low point in 2016, as the administration sought to diminish the agency's role in environmental protection significantly and turn over many of its responsibilities to the state" (Vig, Kraft, and Rabe 20). Cut EPA's budget
"Public and congressional concern over toxic emissions led Congress to mandate more aggressive action in the 1986 Superfund amendments as well as in the 1990 Clean Air amendments" (Vig, Kraft, and Rabe 22)
"Fish and Wildlife Service Reported in 2008 (no similar assessments have been made [since]) that 41 percent of those listed were considered to be stable or improving, but that 34 percent [of species] were considered to be declining in status, [with] 23 percent [reporting] an unknown status" (Vig, Kraft, and Rabe 26).
Directed by Congress to protect ... "more than 150 million acres in more than 560 units of the national wildlife refuge system in all fifty states" (Vig, Kraft, and Rabe 26).
Toxic and hazardous air pollutants- "EPA was [slow] to regulate these pollutants and had established federal standards for only seven of them by 1989" (Vig, Kraft, and Rabe 22).
Environmental Issues
Groundwater pollution and contamination
Air Pollution
Contamination and toxification of biodiversity in ecosystems
Central Topics
Land-use management and conservation
Reducing fossil-fuel dependence, production, use, and output emissions
Environmental efforts becoming more expensive every year, which will make it more difficult to convert to sustainable products and methods
Environmental Acts
Endangered Species Act (1973)
1990 Clean Air Act Amendments
Safe Drinking Water Act 1974