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TDEC is legally responsible for the protection of Tennessee's air, water, and soil quality. As of 2006, the department had at least fourteen divisions: the Division of Air Pollution Control, the Division of Archaeology, the Division of Geology, the Division of Ground Water Protection, the Division of Internal Audit, the Division of Natural Heritage, the Division of Radiological Health, the ...
Aeroponic cultivation involves growing plants in an air culture, allowing them to develop and grow naturally. [2] [failed verification] Aeroponic growth specifically refers to the process of growing plants in an air culture. An aeroponic system refers to the collection of hardware and components designed to support plant growth in an air culture.
Phytoremediation technologies use living plants to clean up soil, air and water contaminated with hazardous contaminants. [1] It is defined as "the use of green plants and the associated microorganisms, along with proper soil amendments and agronomic techniques to either contain, remove or render toxic environmental contaminants harmless". [2]
Economic damages associated with invasive species' effects and control costs are estimated at $120 billion per year. [31] The main geomorphological impacts of invasive plants include bioconstruction and bioprotection. [32] Kudzu, a Japanese vine species invasive in the southeast United States, growing in Atlanta, Georgia
The Clear Skies Act of 2003 was a proposed federal law of the United States.The official title as introduced is "a bill to amend the Clean Air Act to reduce air pollution through expansion of cap-and-trade programs, to provide an alternative regulatory classification for units subject to the cap and trade program, and for other purposes."
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) began regulating greenhouse gases (GHGs) under the Clean Air Act ("CAA" or "Act") from mobile and stationary sources of air pollution for the first time on January 2, 2011. Standards for mobile sources have been established pursuant to Section 202 of the CAA, and GHGs from stationary ...
Chattanooga (/ ˌ tʃ æ t ə ˈ n uː ɡ ə / CHAT-ə-NOO-gə) is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States.It is located along the Tennessee River, and borders Georgia to the south.
Biofiltration is a pollution control technique using a bioreactor containing living material to capture and biologically degrade pollutants. Common uses include processing waste water, capturing harmful chemicals or silt from surface runoff, and microbiotic oxidation of contaminants in air. Industrial biofiltration can be classified as the ...