scholarly journals The Utility of the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) in Tracking Implementation and Environmental Impact of Industrial Green Chemistry Practices in the United States

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Duque Gaona
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Green Chemistry ◽  
The United States ◽  
Toxic Release Inventory

Assessing the Role of Environmental and Regulatory Issues on Offshore Renewable Energy Projects in the United States

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
William H. Daughdrill
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
The United States ◽  
Environmental Impact Statement ◽  
Regulatory Issues ◽  
Energy Projects ◽  
The U.S

This paper will describe some of the key environmental and regulatory issues affecting development of offshore renewable energy projects in the United States. Offshore wind, wave, tidal current, and ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) projects all have unique environmental and social issues that must be addressed to the satisfaction of federal, state, and local authorities. This paper examines the existing federal regulatory schemes applicable to offshore renewable energy development in the United States including a discussion of an on-going jurisdictional debate between agencies at the U.S. federal government level. The various permitting processes for offshore renewable energy projects all involve an examination of the potential environmental and social/human effects of each proposed project. Typically, the agency with primary permitting authority must prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) or equivalent document that includes a transparent process that encourages the participation of the interested public and other affected stakeholders. While acknowledging the importance of social/human impact issues, this paper will focus primarily on the potential physical and biological effects from offshore renewable energy projects including a discussion of the uncertainty that surrounds predicting the impact of new or innovative technologies. The U.S. Department of Interior, Minerals Management Service (MMS) recently published a programmatic environmental impact statement (EIS) that includes 52 “best management practices” for reducing environmental and social impacts from offshore alternative energy projects. Finally the paper will examine the important role of environmental monitoring and adaptive management in informing regulators and developers of potential adverse impacts and adapting project design and operations to avoid or minimize these effects.

scholarly journals Environmental impact of warehousing: a scenario analysis for the United States

2016 ◽  
Vol 55 (21) ◽  
pp. 6485-6499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jörg M. Ries ◽  
Eric H. Grosse ◽  
Johannes Fichtinger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Scenario Analysis ◽  
The United States

scholarly journals Advanced Heavy Water Reactor: A New Step Toward Sustainability

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3A) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Bastos Smith ◽  
Mahima Sachdeva ◽  
Indranil Bisuri ◽  
Roberto Vicente
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Green Chemistry ◽  
Heavy Water ◽  
Half Life ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
The United States ◽  
Water Reactor ◽  
Nuclear Field ◽  
Heavy Water Reactor ◽  
Enriched Uranium

One of the great advances in the current evolution of nuclear power reactors is occurring in India, with the Advanced Heavy Water Reactor (AHWR). It is a reactor that uses thorium as part of its fuel, which in its two fueling cycle options, in conjunction with plutonium or low enriched uranium, produces energy at the commercial level, generating less actinides of long half-life and inert thorium oxide, which leads to an optimization in the proportion of energy produced versus the production of burnt fuels of the order of up to 50%. The objective of this work is to present the most recent research and projects in progress in India, and how the expected results should be in compliance with the current sustainability models and programs, especially the "Green Chemistry", a program developed since the 1990s in the United States and England, which defines sustainable choices in its twelve principles and that can also be mostly related to the nuclear field. Nevertheless, in Brazil, for more than 40 years there has been the discontinuation of research for a thorium-fueled reactor, and so far there has been no prospect of future projects. The AHWR is an important example as an alternative way of producing energy in Brazil, as the country has the second largest reserve of thorium on the planet.

scholarly journals More Than a Scientific Movement

2018 ◽  
pp. 24-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Maxim
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Green Chemistry ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
The United States ◽  
Agricultural Policies ◽  
Perfect Adaptation ◽  
External Conditions ◽  
Hybrid Character ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Environmental Relevance

The green chemistry (GC) concept originated in the United States during the 1990s to describe an approach to chemistry that aims to lower impacts on health and the environment. Based on 70 interviews with scientists from France and the United States, I investigated green chemists’ practices and motivations, and the socio-political influences on their attitudes to GC. The results show that GC has a hybrid character, bringing together scientists with different motivations (funding, career, communication, ethical, political). The boundaries of the definition of GC are constantly shifting under the influence of research funding and environmental, industrial and agricultural policies. GC reflects the perfect adaptation of a terminology to the external conditions of chemistry’s socio-political contexts. While this is a strength that gives GC the potential for changing overall practices in chemistry, this might also be its major weakness as it might completely lose its original environmental relevance, depending on the evolution of external drivers.

scholarly journals Hydraulic Fracturing Water Use Is Tied to Environmental Impact

Eos ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lily Strelich
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Hydraulic Fracturing ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Water Use ◽  
The United States ◽  
Water Usage ◽  
Drilling Operations

New map identifies varying water usage in hydraulic drilling operations across the United States and what this means for potential environmental impacts.

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