NR 443 DeVry Week 6 Discussion Latest

Environmental Health (graded)

Visit the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s My Environment site at and enter your city and state or zip code, or location into the location box. Explore the site to learn more about your environment and things that might be impacting the health of its citizens.

• Identify something new you learned about your environment and how it could be affecting health by completing this statement, “I didn’t know _____.
• How could you, in the role of a community health nurse, address these concerns?

Optional: For more environmental health information, you can also visit:

• Environmental health tracking:
• Air quality:
• Toxic release inventory:

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Introduction

We all know that protecting the environment is important. But if you’re not familiar with the Environmental Protection Agency, its history, or its mission, this guide can help.

The Environmental Protection Agency is an executive branch department of the national government.

The Environmental Protection Agency is an executive branch department of the national government. It is part of the United States Department of Energy, which was created by Congress in 1977. The EPA has eight regional offices around the country and a headquarters office in Washington, D.C.

The EPA’s budget comes from Congress. Its funding level is determined annually by Congress through its appropriations process and has historically been higher than other agencies within DoE and other federal departments, except for Military Defense-related agencies such as Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

It was created on December 2, 1970 by President Nixon.

The EPA was created on December 2, 1970 by President Nixon. It was originally known as the Environmental Protection Agency.

The EPA replaced the Bureau of Environmental Health Services and other government agencies that were responsible for protecting human health and the environment.

Its first administrator was William D. Ruckelshaus.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an agency of the federal government of the United States charged with protecting human health and safeguarding the natural environment. Its goal is to “protect human health and the environment.” The EPA was established by President Nixon on December 2, 1970 as part of a new environmental program for the country. It replaced the Department of Natural Resources (which included responsibilities now handled by several other agencies), and it has been restructured several times since then.

In 1970, William Ruckelshaus was appointed as its first administrator by President Richard Nixon after leading a five-year fight against industrial polluters in his home state of Indiana. He served until 1973 when he left over disagreements about budgeting priorities and enforcement policies with James G. Watt (the Secretary of Interior who oversaw many agencies including U.S Geological Survey).

EPA’s current administrator is Gina McCarthy.

Gina McCarthy is the 14th Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). She was nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate as EPA’s 14th Administrator on July 16, 2013. In this position, she leads an agency with almost 15,000 employees (including more than 7,000 at headquarters) who are working to protect human health and the environment by enforcing environmental laws; assisting state and local governments with clean air, clean water programs; protecting communities from dangerous pesticides; reducing greenhouse gases that cause climate change; and managing toxic substances such as mercury or asbestos in our homes or businesses.

McCarthy has worked for more than three decades in public service to protect public health—beginning as an engineer at Boston’s Metropolitan District Commission (MDC), which provided water quality protection services for Greater Boston area communities including Cambridge MA where she grew up before going off to college at University of Massachusetts Amherst where she earned bachelor degrees in mechanical engineering & environmental science before completing masters degrees both public administration & policy analysis at Harvard University..

The agency’s mission is to protect human health and the environment.

The agency’s mission is to protect human health and the environment. The agency does this by:

• Ensuring compliance with environmental laws

• Working to improve environmental quality

• Reducing pollution and waste disposal, protecting the environment

The EPA is responsible for carrying out federal environmental laws.

The EPA is responsible for carrying out federal environmental laws. The EPA works with state and local governments to implement environmental laws across the nation, and it encourages the public to do their part by conserving energy, recycling materials, buying fuel-efficient cars and appliances, reducing household waste through composting or recycling programs offered by food banks, etc.

The EPA also works with businesses and other organizations to help them comply with environmental laws so they can continue operating efficiently while also protecting air quality and water resources in communities across America.

The Environmental Protection Agency has a long history of defending the environment and human health from harm.

The Environmental Protection Agency has a long history of defending the environment and human health from harm. Protecting human health and the environment is the EPA’s primary mission.

The agency was created by President Richard Nixon in 1970, during the height of environmental concerns following years of pollution in American cities and waterways. The agency was created to ensure that all Americans can breathe clean air, drink safe water and live in communities safe from toxic waste sites or other threats to their health and safety.

In its first year after being established, the EPA helped to ban use of leaded gasoline throughout the country, which had been linked to unhealthy levels of lead exposure among children who lived near busy roadsides or industrial areas where they could breathe in dust particles containing concentrated amounts of lead (a heavy metal found naturally in rocks). Lead exposure can cause learning disabilities as well as behavioral issues like ADHD; when combined with other factors such as poverty level or poor nutrition this can lead some children down an especially difficult path toward success later on life stages such as college graduation rates.”

Conclusion

The EPA has a long history of defending the environment and human health from harm. Its mission is to protect human health and the environment, which is why it was created in 1970 by President Nixon. The agency’s current administrator is Gina McCarthy, who took over after Lisa Jackson left in 2013.