Question

What were the "turning points" with respect to developing policy solutions to environmental problems in (recent) US history?

Answer 1

Environment is the face of the mother nature which reflects on what is the current state of the nature. The degradation of the nature has been an issue prevalent since many years now, and still nothing much has been done so far for its regeneration. Environmental degradation is the cause to the overall degrading life span of the human beings. The world has been long searching a proper and long-term solution to prevent further polluting the environment, thus trying to lengthen its life. United states have been very vocal about the environment movements and has lately taken many measures to try and safeguard the mother nature.

  The Government of United States has long been stressing the need to move to other fuels for vehicle movement. Petrol and diesel have been a key contributor to the pollution. It Is estimated that, everyone more day of the pollution emitted from the vehicles in the United states, reduces the over all average life of a U S citizen by approximately 90 days. The Government has been pushing toward the goal to have natural gas being used more than these fuels. Natural Gas has very minimal pollution emission and thus follows the standard. Bio-fuels have been promoted in the country for a very long time now.

Another turning point in the US contribution to environmental cause could be it steps to reduce the water pollution. The Government has taken many steps ensuring that the garbage from the homes do not go through the drains, rivers and ultimately to the oceans. This leads to many of the living organisms in the   water to their death. In the recent few years, there have been many instances where polluted garbage has been the cause if the total wipe out of life form many lakes in the country. The Government is ensuring that garbage collection is properly done and that they do not end up being in to the ocean. The oceans are cleaned in a regular basis, so that the living organisms can sustain in their hemisphere without any human garbage coming in the way of their sustainability.

Moreover, there has been huge push toward the complete removal of plastic and plastic products from the daily use of the people. Plastic has been a major contributor to the overall pollution in the country. Plastic cannot be totally junked, and hence is a very dangerous carbon, which affects the life of every living beings. However, the Government needs to brig put proper and cheap alternatives of plastics in the market, so that the people can easily afford them and move to them. Plastic use is still prevalent in the market and is still causing the pollution emission issues.

Another critical step taken by the Government is the implementation of pollution emission laws in the country and gradually modifying them to act swiftly. The pollution laws prevent the firms from polluting the environment above a certain amount of pollution, this has resulted in to the firms total pollution limit being decreased and in the violation of which strict fines are imposed. This has led to many firms now lowering their pollution emission by implementation various new technological means. However, the day is still far when we can say that environmental pollution is under control.