According to the New York Times, the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing that oil and gas facilities that inject carbon dioxide into the ground’s greenhouse gas sources report their annual emissions to the government. Of course, the industries are not happy about this – few sectors welcome government monitoring. The public, however, should be in support of the proposal: greenhouse gases have a direct impact on the planet’s environment. If we do not understand how they are affected, we cannot begin to implement changes that can keep them under control.
Greenhouse gases are gases that trap heat in the atmosphere. Without them, the earth would be too cold to support life as we know it. Some greenhouse gases occur naturally, some are produced by human activity and some, like industrial gases, are exclusively manmade. The levels of several key greenhouse gases have increased by about 40 percent since the country moved toward industrialization over a century ago.
Over the last two decades, about we have seen a significant increase in the manmade greenhouse gases. Most experts agree that increasing greenhouse gas emissions warm the planet and that, overtime, the surface temperature of the earth will rise. Increased temperatures will, in turn, create dramatic changes in weather, such as more severe storms – this phenomenon is known as climate change. And though some may debate that climate change and global warming don’t exist, we see evidence of it in news reports of devastating storms that take lives and destroy entire cities, causing billions in damage.
Tracking carbon dioxide is just one part of the EPA’s proposed plan: the agency hopes to go on to track gases like methane which actually traps more than 20 times as much heat as carbon and speeds up climate change. Currently, the EPA requires 31 industries, representing 85 percent of the annual production of climate-altering gases that are released into the air, to track and report emissions. Collecting this data is important in finding ways to reduce emissions and in working toward developing systems to produce clean energy.
Industrialization was critical to America’s – and the world’s – economic growth. But it has also taken a toll on our environment. While the subject matter behind the EPA’s proposal may be complicated, the end result is pure and simple: we must understand what is being put into the environment so that we may save it. Despite the objections of the oil and gas industries, these sectors must be added to the list of industries required to report the gases they put into our atmosphere. Doing so is key to ensuring we keep the planet healthy enough to sustain the next generation of innovators.
I have a topic that I would like to share.
I know of a family member who just had 2 boys about 8 months ago.
Child And Family services was there at the hospital when this family member had
her boys and CFS was there like fleas on a dog to take this family members children
away from her. She has done all of what CFS has asked her to do and more.
They played head games with her and when it came time for her court date CFS
laughted at her and also was telling other clients about how she lost her kids. The ones who abuse drugs and drink and beat their children CFS gives them back to them.
CFS works backwords they don’t help you in any way and if they do it’s only 1% that really trys the rest don’t care. CFS says the only reason why they took her children away from her is because she was in care along with her mother and her twin sister. CFS brings up the past of her mother and her twin sister’s mistakes and uses that for the reasons why she can’t have her children back,and that she was a ward of Child and Family Services and don’t know what a family setting is.
She has passes her parenting classes and has a depoma saying how well she has come along since being in the course. Her CFS worker asks this family member how to look after her children and she tells them and then they dangle the children in her face saying haa haa we have your children and you do not. This family member went to see her boys and found the adotion papers when she didn’t ask for that at all she wants her children back and I’m willing to do what it takes to get them back! I’m also fighting for other parents as well who are in the same boat! (What I don’t understand is how come CFS can take children away from the good parents. But the ones who hurt their kids get them back.) Is CFS above the law like they clam to be?