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Assignment - Environmental Hazard: Air Pollution

Overview: As a practitioner, you will often be asked questions about the causes and effects of perceived environmental threats and hazards, and you will be asked to provide research-based recommendations about those threats and hazards to policymakers, the general public, and other interested parties.

Prompt: Submit a draft of your introduction to the environmental hazard you have selected. For this milestone, introduce the environmental health topic that you have chosen and explain why it is considered a hazard or threat to environmental health. Be sure to summarize the literature you used to examine your topic of choice by identifying the key points from each of the sources.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

Introduction: Choose an environmental health topic with your instructor's approval to use as the basis for your analysis and recommendations paper.

A. Briefly introduce your chosen topic. Be sure to explain why it is considered an environmental hazard or threat to environmental health, and provide evidence to support your response.

B. Cite current literature on this environmental hazard by summarizing the articles that you selected to research your topic.

C. Assess the scientific value of each of the sources you cited. In other words, how credible do you feel each of the sources you have selected is for your research on this topic? Be sure to justify your reasoning.

D. What are the key points you drew from each of these sources, and from which section(s) of the article or paper did you cull them?

Note - Your paper must be 1- to 2-pages with at least 3 sources cited in APA format.