First post and the Purpose of this Blog

Hello and welcome to my blog.

The purpose of this blog is to serve as the Civic Engagement Project for my IMM-140 class called Introduction to Professional Writing. My Civic Engagement Project will be how past governors and the present governor of New Jersey Chris Christie will handle the pollution issue in New Jersey. I will post various links and my opinions on reports of what governors have done to decrease pollution in New Jersey. In my opinion, the Garden State should be the greenest state in the entire United States, not a place for pollution of all kinds.

I thought that I should start off talking about air pollution in New Jersey. These emissions are caused by various factories around the state and of course from automobile exhaust. Upon reading the Clean Air Report for 2003 (seen here) I realized how bad the air pollution problem is here. This report gives statistics to air pollution related incidents ranging from the simple to the severe. These include missed work days, Chronic Bronchitis and even death in some adults and even in children. Please read the Clean Air Report that I linked earlier for more information regarding this topic.

Pollution does not only affects the air, it affects our waterways as well. Toxic substances that leak into our water harms the plants and animals that use this water to survive. Consumption of this toxic water can lead to a variety of diseases in both people and animals.