Exam 21: Environmental Law

Which of the following is NOT true about the manifest required by the RCRA:

Which of the following statutes concern the consequences of groundwater pollution from agricultural fertilizers and sprays:

The EPA has registered ____ products under FIFRA.

Riparian water rights holds that all persons in the country have an equal right of access to water and equal right of use of waters.

The developed nations of the world agreed to ozone protection by eliminating CFC's. To do this, they set up a fund to:

The 1990 Clean Air Act requires the EPA to develop "maximum emission rates" for 191 substances declared to be hazardous air pollutants.

Industrial discharges, which typically include toxic substances from production processes, are subject to a permit process. This means that companies must:

National Pollution Discharge Elimination system permits:

In Decker v. Northwest Environmental Defense Center, where an environmental group sued the EPA and other parties because logging companies were not required to have pollution discharge permits for rain runoff on logging roads. The appeals court held that the rain runoff was associated with industrial activity, so discharge permits were required. The Supreme Court held that:

The Clean Air Act requirements for NAAQS are:

The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, which concerns how toxic substances are handled once they are in the market, or when they are being disposed of, was first passed in:

Riparian rights refer to legal rights held by persons who inhabit property on the border of a body of water.

Every State Implementation Plan for air quality must include:

Which of the following is one of the four major external environmental problems that the EPA has primary responsibility for:

Best conventional technology is an emission standard for:

Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP) sued Shenango for not following state standards for emissions. The county where Shenango operated had sued the company and entered into a consent decree for not following standards, but GASP claimed the enforcement was not sufficient. The appeals court held that GASP:

Air pollution in Prevention of Significant Deterioration areas exceed pollution levels allowed by the National Ambient Air Quality Standards.

Businesses that wish to build new emission-producing facilities in "dirty air" areas must:

Biotechnology is:

A new plant can be built in a nonattainment area if, among other things, the air pollution from the new plant is offset by reductions in the same type of pollutant from other plants in the area.