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[News Script: Pollution]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about pollution.
Date: February 22, 1971, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Script: Pollution]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about pollution in Birmingham, Alabama.
Date: April 22, 1971, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Air quality regulation in spatial equilibrium models

Description: A discussion is presented of methods for including a wide variety of air pollution regulations within the class of economic equilibrium models where allocation is based on constrained optimization. The first part of the paper discusses current air pollution regulation in the United States and possible future regulation. This is followed by the presentation of a prototype spatial equilibrium model within which a number of regulatory mechanisms are explicitly represented. These include efficient … more
Date: January 1, 1980
Creator: Kolstad, C.D.
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Pollution prevention/waste minimization program 1998 fiscal year work plan - WBS 1.11.2.1

Description: Pollution Prevention/Waste Minimization (P2/WMin) is the Department of Energy`s preferred approach to environmental management. The P2/WMin mission is to eliminate or minimize waste generation, pollutant releases to the environment, use of toxic substances, and to conserve resources by implementing cost-effective pollution prevention technologies, practices, and polices.
Date: August 22, 1997
Creator: Howald, S. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Cruise Ship Pollution: Background, Laws and Regulations, and Key Issues

Description: This report describes the several types of waste streams that cruise ships may discharge and emit. It identifies the complex body of international and domestic laws that address pollution from cruise ships. It then describes federal and state legislative activity concerning cruise ships in Alaskan waters and activities in a few other states, as well as current industry initiatives to manage cruise ship pollution.
Date: July 1, 2008
Creator: Copeland, Claudia
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Voluntary Programs to Reduce Pollution

Description: This report provides information concerning voluntary pollution prevention programs administered by the Environmental Protection Agency. Over the past 5 years, under both Republican and Democratic Administrations, the Environmental Protection Agency has developed a wide range of such programs and policies aiming to prevent pollution, improve efficiency, simplify compliance, and recognize or reward companies and organizations taking voluntary pollution prevention steps.
Date: July 13, 1995
Creator: McCarthy, James E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Survey of environmental regulations applying to geothermal exploration, development, and use.

Description: Federal, State, and local environmental laws and regulations that apply to geothermal energy development are summarized. Most attention is given to those regulations which deal with air pollution, water pollution, solid wastes and impact assessments. Analyses are made of the regulations with respect to resource definition, pollutants currently not controlled, duplicity and overlap in permit and impact assessment requirements, the lack of uniformity of regulations between states, and the probabl… more
Date: March 1, 1984
Creator: Beeland, G.V.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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SIMS three year study on statistics and environmental factors in health. Technical progress report No. 2

Description: Progress is reported on a study of statistical methods for the correlation of environmental factors and health effects, with emphasis on the effects of air pollution. Statistical methods and models for describing the effects of the environment, measured in terms of pollution and weather variables on health, so far measured only in terms of respiratory diseases, are discussed. Plans for conducting a six-city pollution health study are also discussed. A list of publications during 1976 and 1977 i… more
Date: December 1, 1977
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[News Script: Cement Pollution]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of one of the nation's largest cement manufacturers who disclosed plans that will sharply increase production at its Fort Worth plant which will further curtail air pollution at the plant.
Date: January 24, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Oil Sands and the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund: The Definition of "Oil" and Related Issues for Congress

Description: This report provides background on oil sands resources, followed by a discussion of the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund (OSLTF), including authorized uses and revenue sources; the scope of oil subject to the per-barrel tax (that funds the OSLTF) versus the scope of oil that triggers activities under the Oil Pollution Act; and relevant legislative activities of the 113th and 114th Congresses. The final section offers concluding observations.
Date: January 22, 2015
Creator: Ramseur, Jonathan L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The geopressured geothermal resources of Texas: regulatory controls over water pollution

Description: The following are presented: an overview of the control framework, Federal pollution control of surface waters, state water pollution control in Texas, new Federal standards for underground injection control, and a summary assessment. (MHR)
Date: July 1, 1977
Creator: Rogers, K. E. & Oberbeck, A. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Federal Pollution Control Laws: How Are They Enforced?

Description: This report provides an overview of the statutory framework, key players, infrastructure, resources, tools, and operations associated with enforcement and compliance of the major pollution control laws and regulations administered by EPA.
Date: November 26, 2008
Creator: Esworthy, Robert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Federal Pollution Control Laws: How Are They Enforced?

Description: This report provides an overview of the statutory framework, key players, infrastructure, resources, tools, and operations associated with enforcement and compliance of the major pollution control laws and regulations administered by EPA.
Date: February 20, 2008
Creator: Esworthy, Robert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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