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Thursday: Front line stuff. Debate on “the roles of government and the market in protecting the environment” between a Democratic State Senator, a Republican State Senator and a Green Party candidate (pending confirmation). Read: TBA. Due: Exercise 2. Finals week: Monday, May 12-17. Final Exam: Friday, May 17 th , 4 to 6 PM. Review all readings for test. Term Paper Due: Monday, May 12 th , by 4 PM (909 Social Science Building). 22
EXERCISE #1: Finding Your Local Toxic Polluters Investigate the sources of pollution in your neighborhood or area. Find the EPA regulated pollution sites in your area. Get to know them through visits and interviews. Think about their impacts on community health and quality of life. Write a two to three page reaction paper (typed, double-spaced) plus an extra page for your map. Two website “pollution locators” will let you find these pollution sites. Use both to find out the pollution sites nearest your home. A. Envirofacts and EnviroMapper (http://www.epa.gov/epahome/commsearch.htm) from the EPA. Input your zipcode and try each of the four choices (radio buttons). Use Envirofacts to identify sites with dicharges to air and water and toxic releases. Enviromapper will show you all the Superfund toxic sites and other types of polluting sites on a local map (you can zoom in and out) (http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/mod/ also gets you to the mapping sites). With Surf Your Watershed you can identify sources of water pollution (toxic release inventory) in your watershed area. The UV index allows you to identify areas with harmful levels of ultraviolet rays from the sun (not a problem in the Minnesota winter). Look for polluting discharges to water, superfund sites, hazardous waste, toxic releases, air releases, and others in your area. B. Scorecard (www.scorecard.org) from <strong>Environmental</strong> Defense. Investigate the 8 types of pollution for your zipcode, and the priority setting for your state or area. Focus on “Toxic Industrial Release” and look for your state and your area. Look for the worst polluters of toxics that threaten human health in the state of Minnesota. Are any in your area? Find out which types of pollution in any are bad in your area. Choose the sites that you think might be hazardous to human or ecosystem health. What did you expect to find? What did you find? What surprised you? II. Choose two or three locations, contact them (visit or call), speak to people there. Ask if they are aware of their designation as a pollutor. Ask what steps they have taken to control that pollution. Take notes. III. Print out a map of your area from the EPA Enviromapper (or else from MapQuest) identifying the locations of your home and of the toxic polluters. How do your local pollution problems compare to Minnesota’s in general, according to the three panels rankings in the preceding website? Turn in on Monday, 2/11. IV. Compare your area with Minnesota’s environmental problems as a whole. See website for rankings of Minnesota’s worst pollution problems: http://www.scorecard.org/comprisk/report.tcl?fips_state_code=27 V. Write your paper. Explain your findings in detail. What types of polluting organizations did you find? What kind of pollution is it discharging? Is it being regulated for that by the EPA? How is its waste being discharged? What, if anything, is being done there to prevent pollution? What else did you learn? What else do you think the organization needs to do to control its pollution? VI. Document your contacts with the polluting sites. Give the businesses names, titles or jobs of individuals you spoke with, addresses, and telephone numbers (on a separate page). VI. Your written paper should be approximately three pages (give or take 1/3 page) with the standards listed in your syllabus regarding font and margins. Also attach your map (one page) and your list of ontacts (one page). 23
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