Mountaintop Removal: The Pros and Cons You Should Know About If you live in the United States and/or are familiar with modern mining methods, you've probably heard about mountaintop removal mining. MTR, as it's commonly called, is the process of removing the land on the summit of a mountain to get to the coal seams underneath. When using this method, coal companies first clear trees and vegetation from the mountain. Once this is done, they use millions of pounds of explosives to remove 400 to 600
natural resource; however, as the population along the bay’s watershed has grown to 17.9 million and industrialization has occurred, the water quality of the Chesapeake Bay has quickly gone down. Currently, the Chesapeake Bay has a rating of 32 out of 100. The depletion in quality derives from the increase of nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediments being deposited in the water from the six states (Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Delaware, New York) and the District of Columbia which make up
INTRODUCTION The construction industry has a vast number of different projects to execute in different professions, this including roads, buildings, water reticulation, etc. For every building or construction to be constructed and completed within given specifications, given time frame, expected quality with risks mitigated, it requires a budget. The initial step to construct begins with the Client who will be having money to build. The client comes without the knowledge of what entails building
Jack Welch implemented huge changes at GE and achieved tremendous amounts of profits. However, when it comes to this case and CSR, GE in the Welch era did not fulfill this duty. Among the numerous acts that gave the company a bad reputation are the elimination of over 150,000 jobs, the demoralization of managers through a controversial ranking system, and placing priority on profits over pension funds. GE showed a lack of CSR when they released PCB chemicals into the Hudson River for 35 years. These
A Safe and Efficient Way to Use Nuclear Waste as Energy Nuclear waste may not be waste after all. It's possible that it can be put to good use. Nuclear waste is the highly radioactive material produced from nuclear power plants. Currently, high-level nuclear waste is stored on site at the nuclear reactor plants or buried deep underground. Instead of just disposing of this nuclear waste, we could possibly reuse it to make more energy. The History of Nuclear Energy Uranium was, and still is, an element