Environmental Cleanup Recommendation Report:
Introduction
An environmental cleanup recommendation report will provide various measures through which environmental cleanup may be conducted. It discusses the various environmental cleanup challenges identified and approaches through which addressing them proves possible. The study will operate on the thesis statement, environmental cleanup approaches that will improve bid to ensure a secure protected environment from any forms of degradation that may occur. The report will base on analyzing the current approaches in relation to future approaches.
Background:
The background will provide an understanding into the topic, reasons for its selection and necessary items needed to provide a concrete report on the subject. It will involve discussion on the different practices developed in bid to improve quest for environmental cleanup as developed by organizations tasked with this responsibility.
Findings on Environmental Cleanup
The section will discuss findings based on research on the clean up measures taken by different institutions and the effectiveness in solving the environmental challenges faced. These will be involved under technical challenges, assessment of programs available for environmental cleanup, challenges that the stakeholders pose and the compliance issues. These will all play a role in explaining the report to conclusion.
Technical Challenges
Challenges posed by stakeholders
Compliance issues
Disconnects in environmental cleanup
Disconnects will provide the different hampering items that are affecting the environmental cleanup process. It will provide an explanation of the major items that have made it challenging for environmental clean up to occur successfully. Those involved under this include regulatory failures relating to compliance and the interests of stakeholders in supporting or failing to support the process.
Regulatory aspects and compliance:
Interests of stakeholders involved:
The future
The future aspect poses a question on possible developments in future that may support the process. It poses questions on solutions to problems or challenges faced currently that have made the cleanup process difficult if not impossible. Aspects discussed under this include environmental cleanup approaches, the involvement of the government and international arms, the application of improved technology and the high levels of accountability.
Environmental cleanup approaches
Government and international community involvement
Improved technology
High levels of accountability
Conclusion:
The conclusion will provide a summary of the entire work discussed above and a position taken by the developer. It will provide a picture of the entire report including major strong holds that need special focus.
Recommendations:
Recommendations on possible approaches that would aid and add to the environmental cleanup quest are provided under this section of the report.
Annotated Biography:
Mittal, A. K. (2010). Environmental contamination [electronic resource] : information on the funding and cleanup status of defense sites : testimony before the Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies, Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives / statement of Anu Mittal. [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, [2010].
Mittal in the book provides an explanation into the different challenges faced in environmental reporting. It discusses the opportunities that exist in the quest to improve the environmental cleanup process and the transfer of property that is not needed as a measure of ensuring the success of the process. The book entails various failures that need addressing to develop a concrete approach that will yield better results in the environmental cleanup process.
The book supports the work in discussing the cleanup costs that may increase with the increasing investigations taking place on environmental related matters. The study provides a background on which environmental cleanup costs have increased leading to a support system through which handling their effects will provide support to the entire cleanup process. The need to provide transparent information on the costs incurred in dealing with the cleanup process will support the study in ensuring the development of the challenges facing environmental cleanup approaches hence improving chances of a valid report with valid information that may work in ensuring the intended goals of the cleanup are achieved.
US Department of Energy, (n.d). Environmental Cleanup. Retrieved on February 25, 2016 from http://energy.gov/environmental-cleanup
The website through a video discusses the environmental cleanup aspect in relation to the Hanford story with regard to the river corridor. It exhibits the commitment of the Energy Department to ensuring a safe, and thoroughly effective cleanup approach to improve the environment. It involves a discussion on the legacy over the five decades through which government sponsored development of nuclear weapons has affected the research involved in nuclear energy development. The mission of the department is to ensure safe transportation and disposal of low-level wastes, the decommissioning of the old facilities and their decontamination as part of the cleanup process.
The study supports the topic through discussing different efforts made by the energy department in ensuring environmental improvement approaches that yield developments in control of the entire process. Application of information from this source will guide an understanding of government participation in the process of environmental cleanup.
Bureau of National Affairs, (2003). Environment Reporter. Bureau of National Affairs.
The Bureau of National Affairs in their environmental reporter discusses various aspects relating to environmental cleanup that may effect an improvement in effectiveness of the process. They dwell on the federal and state regulators charged with a role of developing regulatory framework within which environmental cleanup occurs. The book also dwells on the enforcement action against various institutions such as GPU Inc, FirstEnergy Corp among others for their failure to comply with the regulations and an order to cleanup. The organizations were charged with a responsibility of providing a response on environmental cleanup. These included safety of the storage tanks among many other compliance issues.
The book aids in the development of compliance issues that have challenged the process of environmental cleanup. It puts to light regulatory developments aimed at ensuring environmental cleanup occurs and disconnect is dealt with to support the participation of each party in the cleanup process. Disconnects in the book majorly stem from poor communication that results into failed cleanup processes.
Amantea, C. M. & Jones, C. S. (n.d). The Growth of Environmental Issues in Government Contracting. The American University Law Review. Retrieved on February 25, 2016 from https://www.wcl.american.edu/journal/lawrev/43/amantea.pdf
Amantea and Jones in their journal provide the various risk exposures that affect the environmental cleanup process. They also discuss other numerous liabilities that affect the process. These two aspects have become of a growing concern to the private and public companies. Private companies in business with the Federal Government are charged with a responsibility of ensuring their works are in line with the environmental laws and regulations developed for the country and relating with their field of work. It ensures an understanding of the legal obligations of contractors in the environmental cleanup process.
The book supports an understanding into international and governmental needs for contractors that contribute to environmental cleanup. It provides support to understanding the different measures advocated for and respect of regulations developed and enforced through these government agencies.
Maczulak, A. (2009). Cleaning Up the Environment: Hazardous Waste Technology. Infobase Publishing.
Anne Maczulak in her book discusses the different approaches that aid in cleaning up the environment. The increasing pollution levels resulting from human activities and filling of other hazardous wastes in the environment is possible to clean up through processes of oxidation, the use of microbes and excavation.
The book discusses possible technologies to employ in the process of environmental cleanup through which the research above will base its arguments.
Atlas, R. M. & Philip, J. (2005). Bioremediation: Applied Microbial Solutions for Real-World Environmental Cleanup. ASM Press.
Ronald Atlas and Jim Philip provide a guide to both academics and practitioners of environmental cleanup with information relating to the legal, engineering and scientific approaches through which bioremediations for the cleaning up of contaminants from soil and groundwater may occur. It provides a global perspective that defines an approach that will aid alleviate the effects of environmental degradation through improving the cleanup process.
Application of this in the research will reveal the approaches employed and their resulting effects. These approaches provide additional information through which the research bases to explain and meet its thesis statement.
Paukstys, F. B., Zeeb, A. B. & Reimer, K. J. (2012). Environmental Contamination and Remediation Practices at Former and Present Military Bases. Springer.
The book provides an explanation into the approaches of the Environmental Science Group based at the Royal Military College of Canada in environmental cleanup. The group focused on examining many sites used by the army and recommending their cleanup aids in ensuring the army maintains a cleanup approach to their activities. The approaches that the ESG has employed have focused on two major items that include the evaluation of the sites and the assessment of the environmental risks it poses to the environmental and health of humans.
These approaches play a role in ensuring environmental cleanup is a success. The book will guide the researcher into understanding them and applying them in the research. These and other approaches discussed in the book will provide guidance in dealing with the challenges of environmental cleanup process. They will support the present and future activities aimed at developing an improved environmental focus.
Das, O. (2013). Environmental Protection, Security and Armed Conflict: A Sustainable Development Perspective. Edward Elgar Publishing.
According to Das, elements vital to the development of a secure environment stand on a consideration of the challenges faced that range from environmental protection failures, security and armed conflicts and the practices involved in sustainable development. It provides an analysis of the war and other stakeholder activities failing the environmental cleanup process. The book fields early warning to environmental issues, early action to avert and control them and ensuring prevention of security threats to the environment.
The book dwells on numerous stakeholder activities that have proven to impact the environmental cleanup process. It dwells on aspects of a sustainable approach to improving the environmental cleanup process hence reducing the challenges faced with effective means.
Schied, H. G. (2010). US Customs and Border Protection: Performance and Accountability Report Fiscal Year 2009. DIANE Publishing.
The book furthers the discussion on liabilities accumulating from the environmental cleanup process through an accountability report by the Customs and Border Protection units. The book adds to the understanding of the accountability in dealing with liabilities from the environmental cleanup failures. It guides in the understanding of the support roles that different agencies employ in ensuring the cleanup process is a success. It focuses on the customs and border protection units.
Understanding these aids in developing better future plans in managing the environmental cleanup exercise for different organizations. It increases awareness of the aspects involved in the entire process and hence higher chances of success.
Wang, L. K., Chen, J. P., Hung, Y. & Shammas, N. K. (2009). Heavy Metals in the Environment. CRC Press.
The book provides a vivid documentation of the different conditions that exist on sites, a summary of the assessment of their nature and the applicable scope within which contamination is discussed. The book then discusses the different recommendations to approach in improving environmental concerns. The book guides on a planning process through the development of a plan applicable in the environmental improvement approaches.
The book aids in drawing a conclusion to the topic through provision of a cleanup plan that would create a systematic approach to ensuring the environmental cleanup process is a success. These in turn support developing basic approaches and improving the planning of environmental cleanup approaches. They support development of a coordinated system through which resource allocation and management proves simple and achievable. The major challenge in most of the cleanup exercises as seen through research is the allocation and management of resources applied which proves approachable through improved planning processes.
References:
Amantea, C. M. & Jones, C. S. (n.d). The Growth of Environmental Issues in Government Contracting. The American University Law Review. Retrieved on February 25, 2016 from https://www.wcl.american.edu/journal/lawrev/43/amantea.pdf
Atlas, R. M. & Philip, J. (2005). Bioremediation: Applied Microbial Solutions for Real-World Environmental Cleanup. ASM Press.
Bureau of National Affairs, (2003). Environment Reporter. Bureau of National Affairs.
Das, O. (2013). Environmental Protection, Security and Armed Conflict: A Sustainable Development Perspective. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Maczulak, A. (2009). Cleaning Up the Environment: Hazardous Waste Technology. Infobase Publishing.
Mittal, A. (2011). Environmental Contamination: Information on the Funding and Cleanup Status of Defense Sites. DIANE Publishing.
Paukstys, F. B., Zeeb, A. B. & Reimer, K. J. (2012). Environmental Contamination and Remediation Practices at Former and Present Military Bases. Springer.
Schied, H. G. (2010). US Customs and Border Protection: Performance and Accountability Report Fiscal Year 2009. DIANE Publishing.
US Department of Energy, (n.d). Environmental Cleanup. Retrieved on February 25, 2016 from http://energy.gov/environmental-cleanup
Wang, L. K., Chen, J. P., Hung, Y. & Shammas, N. K. (2009). Heavy Metals in the Environment. CRC Press.
