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US Environmental Protection Agency announced the release of the EPA "Draft Report on the Environment"
US Environmental Protection Agency announced the release of the EPA "Draft Report on the Environment", an unprecedented effort by the Agency to present the picture of US environmental quality and human health. The draft begins an important dialogue on how US can improve abilities to assess the nation's environmental quality and human health, and how they can use that knowledge as an important tool in making improvements.
The draft consists of six chapters:
1. Cleaner Air: For the past 30 years, total emissions amount of the six major pollutants (SO2, NO2, O3, CO, Lead, Micro-dusts.) was 25% reduced.
2. Purer Water: Having the year 2000 as a basis, 250 million people, which represents 94% of the total population, were served by community water systems.
3. Better Protected Land: The amount of general and toxic waste has been on a increasing tendency, however, the contamination level has decreased through the expansion of disposal facilities.
4. Human Health: In US, the life expectancy increased from 51 to 79.4 years for women and from 48 to 73.9 years for men. Infant mortality has dropped to 8 per 1000 in 1999 from 30 per 1000 in 1950.
5. Ecological Condition: As a successful result of the ecology restoration countermeasure; lakes and waterways in three areas, which were under a serious impact of acid rain, is in the course of recovery.
6. Working Together for Environmental Results: The federal and central governments, corporations, and citizen groups should make efforts to work together in achieving environmental preservation.
*please refer to http://www.epa.gov/indicators for more information.
French Cabinet approves plan for a new environmental charter
On June 25th 2003, France's Cabinet approved a plan that recommended the constitution to give environmental protection as an equal footage to human rights. The modification of the environment charter represents France's commitment to environment protection. The bill is expected to go before parliament this fall. The charter has 10 articles. The first article guarantees that "everyone has the right to live in an environment that is balanced and healthy." The second article reserves the duty for everyone to "preserve and improve" the natural world. The charter also emphasizes that people must pay damages for harming the environment.
US Environmental Protection Agency announced the release of the EPA "Draft Report on the Environment", an unprecedented effort by the Agency to present the picture of US environmental quality and human health. The draft begins an important dialogue on how US can improve abilities to assess the nation's environmental quality and human health, and how they can use that knowledge as an important tool in making improvements.
The draft consists of six chapters:
1. Cleaner Air: For the past 30 years, total emissions amount of the six major pollutants (SO2, NO2, O3, CO, Lead, Micro-dusts.) was 25% reduced.
2. Purer Water: Having the year 2000 as a basis, 250 million people, which represents 94% of the total population, were served by community water systems.
3. Better Protected Land: The amount of general and toxic waste has been on a increasing tendency, however, the contamination level has decreased through the expansion of disposal facilities.
4. Human Health: In US, the life expectancy increased from 51 to 79.4 years for women and from 48 to 73.9 years for men. Infant mortality has dropped to 8 per 1000 in 1999 from 30 per 1000 in 1950.
5. Ecological Condition: As a successful result of the ecology restoration countermeasure; lakes and waterways in three areas, which were under a serious impact of acid rain, is in the course of recovery.
6. Working Together for Environmental Results: The federal and central governments, corporations, and citizen groups should make efforts to work together in achieving environmental preservation.
*please refer to http://www.epa.gov/indicators for more information.
French Cabinet approves plan for a new environmental charter
On June 25th 2003, France's Cabinet approved a plan that recommended the constitution to give environmental protection as an equal footage to human rights. The modification of the environment charter represents France's commitment to environment protection. The bill is expected to go before parliament this fall. The charter has 10 articles. The first article guarantees that "everyone has the right to live in an environment that is balanced and healthy." The second article reserves the duty for everyone to "preserve and improve" the natural world. The charter also emphasizes that people must pay damages for harming the environment.
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