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Environmental PerspectivesThe Historical Context for Examining Industrial Pollution

Environmental Perspectives: The Historical Context for Examining Industrial Pollution [The early focus of environmental quality was on air and surface water pollution. Land disposal and its impacts were essentially unregulated; in fact, such impacts were eventually exacerbated due to the focus on surface water protection. An understanding of groundwater contaminant transport was not developed until the 1970s and 1980s. For most of the twentieth century, pollution definitions were rudimentary and expressed in terms of “conventional pollutants,” such as suspended solids, bacteria, dissolved oxygen, and nutrients. A chemical definition of pollution did not really first appear until US Environmental Protection Agency established its 64-chemical Priority Pollutant list in 1976. Early regulation of pollution was nuisance-based and enforced on a case-by-case basis using riparian rights and common law notions. By contrast, today environmental statutes and regulations provide a highly structured framework for discharge compliance and remediation of legacy contamination.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Environmental PerspectivesThe Historical Context for Examining Industrial Pollution

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Author(s) 2014
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978-3-319-06277-8
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5 –17
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10.1007/978-3-319-06278-5_2
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[The early focus of environmental quality was on air and surface water pollution. Land disposal and its impacts were essentially unregulated; in fact, such impacts were eventually exacerbated due to the focus on surface water protection. An understanding of groundwater contaminant transport was not developed until the 1970s and 1980s. For most of the twentieth century, pollution definitions were rudimentary and expressed in terms of “conventional pollutants,” such as suspended solids, bacteria, dissolved oxygen, and nutrients. A chemical definition of pollution did not really first appear until US Environmental Protection Agency established its 64-chemical Priority Pollutant list in 1976. Early regulation of pollution was nuisance-based and enforced on a case-by-case basis using riparian rights and common law notions. By contrast, today environmental statutes and regulations provide a highly structured framework for discharge compliance and remediation of legacy contamination.]

Published: Jun 12, 2014

Keywords: Environmental regulation; Pollution; Nuisance; Legacy contamination; Manufactured gas plants; Wastes

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