Write 5 pages with APA style on Environmental Policies Paradox in the USA. From large industries to individual’s small everyday domestic actions each and every human activity is resulting in the release of chemicals and other hazardous gases into the biosphere and thereby polluting the environment vigorously. Thus, industrialization which is considered to be the vital ‘weapon’ to the rapid economic development seems to be polluting the environment day by day. It’s high time that all nations across globe need to enact strict laws to regulate activities that have a negative impact on environment.

The ultimate goal of the environmental policies has to be saving the renewable and non-renewable resources for the future generation. This paper will mainly focus on the environmental policies followed and implemented by the US government with respect to the hazardous wastes that are emitted in the environment. The environmental policies of the United States of America mainly concentrate on controlling air, water, and land pollution. Environment Protection Agency was formed in order to check the existence of pollution in the environment. “EPA got its start on July 9, 1970, when President Richard Nixon submitted Reorganization Plan no 3 of 1970 for congressional approval.” (Portney and Stavins, 2000). This content focusing on the impact of the Hazardous wastes on the environment will discuss the federal laws that are in existence to regulate those hazardous wastes.

A hazardous wastes material can be defined as the substance that causes potential threats to the environment and affects the health of the public. These wastes can be in the different form of physical states such as solid, liquids and gases. However, the major sources of the hazardous wastes would be from industries and domestic usages. In the United States of America, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act regulates the treatment, disposal, and storage of the hazardous waste materials.&nbsp.