Exam 21: Environmental Law

With regard to chemical restriction or banning under TSCA there is:

During the 1960s the public became more concerned about the environment. The concern at that time was sparked, in part, by:

Biotechnology products are subject to regulation under:

In Boomer v. Atlantic Cement Co., homeowners sued a cement company that created a lot of air pollution, based on nuisance theory, and were successful in getting an injunction to stop the pollution.

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

Under the Clean Air Act, nonattainment areas:

The problem of brownfields is partially addressed by the:

Global warming has been addressed at international meetings, but substantive changes have not actually taken place.

The primary purpose of RCRA's manifest system is to:

The best available technology emission standard that is applied to toxic or unconventional water pollutants requires that:

Each state is required to develop a State Implementation Plan to define control efforts necessary to achieve air quality in the state.

An area that has what the EPA classifies as "dirty air" that does not satisfy the air quality standards is known as a:

Since about half of all water pollution is from nonpoint sources, Congress moved in recent years to substantially tighten controls and reduce such pollution by half.

Which of the following is not a major pollutant regulated by the Clean Air Act:

In general, conventional water pollutants, such as human waste, are subject to an emission standard known as:

Companies must constantly monitor their water pollution and report what they are dumping in discharge monitoring reports, even if it shows they are violating the law.

If the EPA determines that a pollutant is a threat to public health or the environment:

Under the Endangered Species Act, the ____ is authorized to establish critical habitat for endangered species.

Hardy makes pesticides. Run-off from its factory goes into gullies that run into Cane Creek, a trickle of water that rarely has fish in it and it is not used for recreation. Part of the year, the creek runs into a river. The outcome of EPA's regulation of Hardy's pollution would be:

To help enforce the Clean Air Act there may be: