The Food and Agriculture Industries: Citrus Processing
Citrus fruits are a major part of crop production in Florida. At Southern Gardens Citrus, one of the largest citrus processing plants in the United States, a number of practices are utilized to assure both a high qualit..
The Food and Agriculture Industries: Food Packaging and Waste Disposal
Americans dispose of more than two hundred million tons of trash each year, and a significant percentage of that is food packaging. As the public has become increasingly concerned about the negative impact of this massi..
The Food and Agriculture Industries: Sugar Production Equipment and Waste Streams
The ongoing maintenance of equipment and machines essential to the sugar production process can generate waste streams that require treatment. For example, some petroleum-based solvents leach hazardous metals, like chro..
The Food and Agriculture Industries: Sugar Production, Fertilizer and Phosphate Levels
About one quarter of U.S. sugar is produced in Florida. Intensive agricultural production in this environmentally sensitive region requires careful waste management. For example, one of the main issues threatening the ..
The Food and Agriculture Industries: Sugar Production, Pests and Pesticides
With the realization that pesticides pose a serious danger to local ecosystems and, therefore, do not represent the best approach to pest control, researchers began looking for alternative tactics. One approach they cam..
The Food and Agriculture Industries: The Dairy Industry: Waste Streams and Environmental Management
Environmental management within the dairy industry has changed dramatically in recent years. It's shifted from a reactive to a very pro-active approach, in which the creamery attempts to reduce, reuse and recycle variou..
The Food and Agriculture Industries: The Everglades: Resources and Regulations
At the South Florida Water Management District, engineers and scientists try to balance the needs of development, agriculture and urban areas with water supply, flood control and conservation. One ongoing source of conc..
The Force of Law: A Case of Malicious Conduct
Vince Sato of the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office, Environment Protection Section, recounts a case of intentional malicious conduct by a business, which was commonplace several decades ago.
The Force of Law: An Unnecessary Burden?
Criticism of excessive government regulation and interference with commerce is not uncommon. But environmental regulations are in place to protect the health and safety of the public and to protect the environment for fu..
The Force of Law: Case of Toxic Abuse, A
J. Korenzio, Department of Justice, Environmental Enforcement Division, recounts the case of two Mississippi exterminators convicted of multiple counts of criminal action for spraying methyl parathion-a restricted agricu..