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Enviromental Fraud: Virginia Beach Situation
Environmental Fraud: Virginia Beach Situation
Recently, issues related to global warming have been center-stage of various political debates. Debate has been centered to examine human influences to environment malfunctioning. Poorly treated environment poses a significant danger to the local community and the atmosphere. For this reason, the law has been configured to ensure that the environment is satisfactorily protected. Besides, states have been pursuing local policies, which are parallel to federal laws in relation to environmental protection. This report will assess the Virginia Beach city pollution. The report identifies Care A lot as a polluter and some of the EPA's regulations tackling the issue. The report will also identify two primary laws responding to Virginia Beach's environmental concerns.
Virginia Pollution
In Virginia Beach, there has been evidence on the presence of fecal contamination, which is realized in the city's brackish waters. This contamination is a result of Enterococci bacteria that indicate the possibility of potentially harmful organisms and chemical pesticides. As a result, the presence of the bacteria may present augmented health risk to recreational beach...
General illnesses experienced in this area are gastrointestinal, which causes abdominal, diarrhea, fever, nausea, or vomiting. There are approximately 29 miles of public beaches in the state.
In relation to the wide area of this beach, there has been a subsequent measure to patrol constantly to identify contamination patterns and attempt to mitigate them collectively. This report has identified the company involved in the industrial waste process like Care A lot has been contaminating the beach through the sale of unregistered and Unbranded products. Primarily, products that cannot be traced. Secondly, levelers and holidaymakers are the largest pollutants. This group of people will visit the beach for all the bad reasons, partying being the most common. In the process, the leveler contaminates the beach through uncontrolled disposal of synthetic material, food, or drinks. Consequently, the levels contaminate the beach through the release of bodily discharge, urine, or defecation (Byrnes, 2001).
Laws related to the case.
There are two primary laws concerned with Beach protection. These are the Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act (BEACH) a federal law signed into law on October 10, 2000 seeks to amend the federal Clean water Act (CWA). The law incorporates provisions seeking to reduce the contamination of recreational waters. The BEACH is responsive to the development, and support of public implementation programs. The law advocates for the involvement of all stakeholders, especially the local community in a collective beach maintenance framework. Consequently, the Act is instrumental in mobilizing funds for beach maintenance programs. In 2012 alone, the Act…
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