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RCRA
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Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
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LQG
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Large Quantity Generator
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HSWA
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Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments
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SARA
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Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act
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CERCLA
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Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
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PPA
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Pollution Prevention Act
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NPL
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National Priority List
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PRP
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Potentially Responsible Party
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TRI
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Toxic Release Inventory
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FIFRA
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Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
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TSCA
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Toxic Substances Control Act
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PMNs
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Pre-Manufacturing Notice
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Resource Conservation and Recovery Act(RCRA)
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Tracks waste from cradle to grave, Defines hazardous , Sets tech standards/ rules for issuing permits
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Large Quantity Generators
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Report their emissions to toxic relief inventory (TRI)
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Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments (HSWA)
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Regulates new classes about storage tanks and small business generators, sets standards to limit the concentration of a specific pollutant, and set land disposal restrictions.
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Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA)
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Community has right to know, lists pollutants and their manufacturers.
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Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)
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Makes someone liable/ responsible, makes someone pay for damages and clean up, identifies sites, site rating, and cleanup plan. Also created NPL.
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National Priorities List (NPL)
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Priority list of sites with hazardous chemicals that pose a threat to the environment.
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Pollution Prevention Act (PPA)
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Sets Standards for emissions/ waste into environment, deals with waste that is toxic, corrosive, reactive, and or toxic. Strives for companies to dispose of waste in this order= source reduction, recycling, energy recovery, treatment, disposal or other release.
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PPA waste disposal 1-5
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source reduction, recycling, energy recovery, treatment, disposal or other release.
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Potentially Responsible Party (PRP)
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Identifies potentially responsible parties
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Toxic Release Inventory (TRI)
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an inventory that people can view hazardous chemicals and their manufactures.
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Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)
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Governs pesticide registration/ distribution, sets tolerances for pesticides in food, sets safety label#, checks chemicals before they are produced.
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Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA)
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checks chemicals before they are produced, characterizes and understands the risk of chemicals before it is introduced to the market
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Pre-Manufacturing Notice
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EPA reviews this to make sure a chemical is environmentally safe, and allows a reduction of pollution on an industry, gov, and public scale.
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Erosion of sovereign immunity by government
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public administrators are now responsible and under environmental law.
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Criminal Liability of Govt. Workers
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They are responsible and liable for their job as a public administrator in the environmental field. They could lose their job if not done right.
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Hazardous Waste Liabilities
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EPA has had increased success in enforcing liability on entities releasing hazardous waste.EPA can shut them down if they present an imminent and or substantial threat.
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Adversarial Legalism
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we have the right to clean air, water, and non hazardous environment and we have the right to sue if not given.
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Goal Statutes
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Right to clean air, water, and non hazardous environment
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Increase in Reporting Requirements
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greater reporting requirements for both regulated entities and the agencies overseeing them. Requires money time and staff.
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flow control
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whether or not a state may keep trash out of their district or keep it in their district. One can move trash along state lines as long as it has a predestined location.
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Children and Pesticides
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Children take 60 breaths per min compared to a adult at 20, Children have a greater metabolism eating more food and water per body weight, closer to the ground,
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Integrated pesticide management
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Cultural, Mechanical, Biological, genetic, chemical
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cultural
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Manipulation of environment so it does not favor pest
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Mechanical
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physical barriers such as nets, screens, traps, fly swatter
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Biological
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Predators, Parasitoid, Pathogen
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Genetic
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Genetically modify a crop to make it more resistant to pests
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Chemical management for pest
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Pesticides
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Ethical concepts
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Ethical communication, transparency, inclusion, equity, leadership and ownership, commitment of resource, and reliability.
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Barriers to communication:
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Difference in frame of reference, distraction, information overload, hierarchy, prejudice, language, physical distance, and faulty communication skills
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ethical communication
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UFOA (useful, fair, open, accurate)
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Transparency
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people have access to date and people understand decisions
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Inclusion
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Bringing everyone to the table
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Equity
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Give people a voice and part of the decision making process
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Leadership and ownership
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All partners have leadership and ownership over issues
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Commitment of resources
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Following through on decisions
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Reliability
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Easy to depend on
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air polutants
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PM 2.5, SO2, NO2, NOx, Co, O3, LEAD
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Characteristics of hazardous waste
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flammable, corrosive, reactive, toxic
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Active Waste
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actively in the process of being processed to non-hazard
(RCRA, HSWA)
(RCRA, HSWA)
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Inactive Waste
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waste that were generated years ago and/or illegally have never been processed
(CERCLA, SARA)
(CERCLA, SARA)
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FOIA
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Freedom of Information Act
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Freedon of Information Act (FOIA)
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Anyone can request info by the gov. exceptions are national security, proprietary info, attorney client privilege, ongoing criminal investigation, some health records.
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Sunshine Act
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applies when agencies host a meeting and it creates transparency by allowing public observation of federal meetings
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Communication Planning
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management situation, audience, message, medium, and feedback
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Communication planning (Management situation)
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Who is in charge what will they need to know
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Communication planning(Medium)
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how will you get your message across
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What do federal environment regulatory agencies do
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permitting, monitor for compliance, conduct enforcement, technical assistance
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GMO's Health Risk Concerns
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antibiotic resistance, developing allergies, nutritional change, and formation of toxins
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GMO's Ethical Rick Concerns
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Potential human health harm, damage to environment, against traditional farming practices, excess corporate dominance.
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Difference between Pub and Priv Communication
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Amount of audience, amount of scrutiny, and what you should or shouldn't say based on your wants.
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Federalism
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Oversight that the federal EPA provides to the states to make sure they are implementing national environmental laws.
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Earthday
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April 22, 1970 by Nixon who also created EPA
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Brownfields
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contaminated industrial or commercial sites that may require environmental cleanup before they can be redeveloped or expanded. Epa COLLABORATES with local communities.
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