Exam 13: Energy and the Environment

The most important source of air pollutants is

The Rio Treaty

Removing lead from gasoline was brought about by the EPA.

Nuclear power plants in the U.S.are being built at the rate of about twenty per decade.

The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 focused on carbon dioxide emissions.

Power plants are the leading contributor to atmospheric carbon dioxide.

An "externality" occurs when

The Kyoto Protocol was rejected by the U.S.

theory requires that environmental policies be evaluated in terms of their net benefits to society.

In the cap and trade program, industries would trade

The cap and trade program gives the federal government greater control over carbon emissions.

The cleanest form of energy production is

The Cancun Conference established the

Nuclear power plants in the U.S.cluster in

Pollution is a type of externality.

The most common way to measure water pollution is the

The Kyoto Protocol, unlike the Rio Treaty it amended, called for

All three of the methods of disposing of solid wastes use landfills.

The Environmental Protection Agency was created to reorganize the federal bureaucracy to consolidate responsibility for all of the following except

It is accurate to state that