Einviromental Studies

There have been several environmental changes in the world recently occurring due to the pollution of the environment. Increase in production, manufacturing, the use of motor vehicles and basically dumping waste into the environment. This has brought about different types of pollution, each resulting in negative effects due to reducing quality air and other environmental features. If things keep going down this road, the future generations may not have a clean environment to come to, and it may even signify the end of our world. Some of the major environmental pollutions include air pollution, sound pollution, soil pollution and water pollution.

Air pollution occurs due to some dangerous gases being released into the environment in large quantities. If the gases are released in small quantities and over a long time, the environment has ways of cleaning itself out, but due to the increase in development and population, this is not possible. This threat for the future world has become a world issue which requires a quick and fast measure taken against it. Otherwise, we might just destroy the only thing that rejuvenates itself and supports our ecosystem. It has been clear though from the past that this issue will not be gotten rid of so easily. This is because even the problem itself has not been fully discovered. People used to consider big companies and automobiles to be the most pollutants, if not the only ones. It has emerged that there are some sources which we have not even put into mind. This is the same problem facing of Portland and especially to the Northwest (Farago, 2005).

In Portland, the local steel plant was put on the spotlight for a while for what the neighboring community claimed to be air pollution. The company claimed to be in full compliance for years, until finally the department for air quality control had to intervene. Then there came the realization that the local school itself was responsible for quite a big portion of the pollution that was being blamed on the company. ESCO was still responsible for most of the pollution that took place, but it became apparent that it was not the only source to blame.

However, the schools being relatively smaller compared to a huge corporation, the company had to play its corporate role and try and fix the problem. As part of the problem solving plan, the company had any interested locals come to a meeting with company and environmental officials to try and come up with a solution. The locals were invited to raise the issues environment which was giving them sleepless nights. The complaints were massive, but so was the response on how the problem could be solved. Many people came up with solutions as to how the problem could be solved.

The company then had a walk around with the participating members, and it was decide that the company needed to take control of the gas waste that was released into the environment. They were also