Citizen Concern with Power Plant Siting: Wisconsin Power Plant Impact StudyEnvironmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1980 - Electric power-plants - 110 pages |
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Page ii - US Environmental Protection Agency, and approved for publication. Approval does not signify that the contents necessarily reflect the views and policies of the US Environmental Protection Agency; nor does mention of trade names or commercial products constitute endorsement or recommendation for use.
Page iii - Noxious air, foul water, and spoiled land are tragic testimony to the deterioration of our natural environment. The complexity of that environment and the interplay between its components require a concentrated and integrated attack on the problem. Research and development is that necessary first step in problem solution and it involves defining the problem, measuring its impact, and searching for solutions.
Page iii - Agency was created because of increasing public and government concern about the dangers of pollution to the health and welfare of the American people. Noxious air, foul water, and spoiled land are tragic testimony to the deterioration of our natural environment.
Page iv - This report was submitted in fulfillment of Grant No. R803971 by the Environmental Monitoring and Data Acquisition Group, Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, under the partial sponsorhsip of the US Environmental Protection Agency.
Page iv - This report was prepared with the cooperation of faculty and graduate students in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison . Most of the funding for the research reported here was provided by the US Environmental Protection Agency...
Page iii - Wisconsin-Madison. Several utilities and State agencies are cooperating in the study: Wisconsin Power and Light Company, Madison Gas and Electric Company, Wisconsin Public Service Corporation, Wisconsin Public Service Commission, and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. During the next year reports from this study will be published as a series within the EPA Ecological Research Series. These reports will include topics related to chemical constituents, chemical transport mechanisms, biological...
Page iii - ... deterioration of our natural environment. The complexity of that environment and the interplay between its components require a concentrated attack on the problem. Research and development, the necessary first steps, involve definition of the problem, measurements of its impact, and the search for solutions. The EPA, in addition to its own laboratory and field studies, supports environmental research projects at other institutions. These projects are designed to assess and predict the effects...