Environmental Regulations for Shale Gas Operations

Pollution is the impairment of the quality of some portion of the environment by the addition of harmful impurities. 

Pollution is something people produce in large enough quantities that it interferes wifh our health or wellbeing. 

Pollution is any change in the physical, chemical, or biological characteristics of the air, water, or soil that can affect the health, survival, or activities of human beings or other forms of life in an undesirable way. Pollution does not have to produce physical harm pollutants such as noise and heat may cause injury but more often cause psychological distress and aesthetic pollution, such as foul odors and unpleasant sights that affect the senses. 

Pollution that initially affects one medium frequently migrates into the other media Air pollution falls to Earth, contaminating soil and water soil pollutants migrate into groundwater and acid precipitation carried by air falls to Earth as rain or snow, altering the delicate ecological balance in surface waters. 

With regard to certain unbearable facets of reality, consider, for example, the residents of Eranklin, Virginia, and their reeking paper mill. Eor those of us who live close to Franklin—it is 50 miles from Norfolk/ Virginia Beach—there is no need to read the road signs. The nose knows when it s close to Franklin. The uninitiated, after a stream of phew-eees 

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