TAILIEUCHUNG - SWIMMING IN SEWAGE: The Growing Problem of Sewage Pollution and How the Bush Administration Is Putting Our Health and Environment at Risk

Grossman (1995) offers three main explanations as to how exactly income affects the environment. First, is the ‘scale effect of income on the ‘environment’. As more outputs are produced, more inputs (natural resources included) are required and more wastes and emissions as by-products are created during the process. Thus, resulting in the use of more natural resources to provide inputs and at the same time more polluting by-products leading to the degradation of the environment. Second, is the technology composition effect. This refers to the technology as a percent of GDP. A higher technology composition effect improves the state of. | Swimming IN Sewage The Growing Problem of Sewage Pollution and How the Bush Administration Is Putting Our Health and Environment at Risk Project Design and Direction Nancy Stoner Natural Resources Defense Council Michele Merkel Environmental Integrity Project Principal Author and Researcher Mark Dorfman MSPH llic ÍOIllL IlfltoM Natural Resources Defense Council February 2004 Environmental Integrity Project Natural Resources Defense Council ABOUT NRDC The Natural Resources Defense Council is a nonprofit environmental organization with more than 1 million members and online activists. Since 1970 our lawyers scientists and other environmental specialists have been working to protect the world s natural resources and improve the quality of the human environment. NRDC has offices in New York City Washington . Los Angeles and San Francisco. Visit us on the World Wide Web at . ABOUT EIP The Environmental Integrity Project is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization established in March of 2002 to advocate for more effective enforcement of environmental laws. The organization was founded by Eric Schaeffer former director of the . Environmental Protection Agency s Office of Regulatory Enforcement with support from the Rockefeller Family Fund and other foundations. Visit us on the World Wide Web at . ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NRDC and EIP wish to acknowledge the support of The Morris Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation The Davis Family Trust for Clean Water Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Inc. Peter R. Gimbel and Elga A. Gimbel Memorial Trust The Joyce Foundation The McKnight Foundation Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Prince Charitable Trusts Mary Jean Smeal Fund for Clean Water The Summit Fund of Washington Turner Foundation Inc. and Victoria Foundation Inc. We also thank our more than 550 000 members without whom our work to protect . waters as well as our other wide-ranging environmental programs would not be possible. The authors wish to thank

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