Exam 46: Environmental Law

When state efforts proved inadequate to alleviate the problem, Congress enacted the __________ Amendments of 1970, greatly expanding the federal role in antipollution efforts.

The NPDES is a highly effective water emission technology required to be used by the EPA.

Which of the following is true of PSD areas under the Clean Air Act?

Milly owns a car rental business that nets over $2 million.How is Milly contributing to the CERCLA trust fund?

There is currently a law promoting the purchase, development, and use of industrially polluted property.

Discuss common problems related to private causes of action with reference to the environment.

CERCLA is an act that:

A nonpoint source is land use that causes pollution.

The Council on Environmental Quality is a four-member advisory group and is not a separate administrative agency.

If the EPA determines that a SIP is not complete, the EPA may treat it as a nullity in whole or in part.

Petrol Corp.owns several drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico, refineries, service stations, and tanker trucks for transporting their products.Petrol Corp.hires an environmental manager to keep the company in compliance with various environmental laws.What laws will the environmental manager need to study and why?

The Clean Air Act requires the EPA Administrator to do what, regarding new stationary sources?

The 1977 amendments to the Clean Water Act divided pollutants into the categories of:

To establish a private nuisance, a plaintiff:

The EPA may not impose civil fines.

What is the purpose of the Montreal Protocol?

A manifest system:

What is the Council on Environmental Quality?

To establish trespass to land, a plaintiff:

The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments provide that EPA must establish new NAAQS for major pollutants every five years.