Exam 19: Environmental Law and Policy

The U.S.Senate has not ratified the Kyoto Treaty because Presidents Clinton and G.W. Bush declined to submit it to the Senate for formal ratification.

Federal laws to limit both air and water pollution have existed since the late nineteenth century.

One principle in the Kyoto Protocol of the international environmental laws is the

Which of the following statements about the environmental impact statement process is not true?

Sometimes,the maximum pollutant levels permitted in wastewater by U.S.Environmental Protection Agency standards have been lower than naturally occurring concentrations of the same elements in local waters.

The Federal Flood Disaster Protection Act stipulates that,when a structure in a floodplain is damaged,by whatever cause,it cannot be rebuilt but must instead be relocated outside the floodplain.

The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation

Achieving "zero pollutant discharge" in water,as stipulated by some laws is in practice difficult because

The Surface and Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 pertains

The Exclusive Economic Zones established by the 1982 Law of the Sea Treaty

The principle of surface-water law that gives all property owners bordering a body of water equal rights to that water is the

Emissions of CFCs worldwide have been sharply reduced and atmospheric concentrations have likewise dropped considerably from their peak levels.

The Kyoto Protocol includes penalties and/or provisions for enforcement when one falis to meet their obligations thereby achieving practical effectiveness.

To avoid confusion,water-rights laws are uniform throughout the United States.

Federal mineral-resource laws of the late nineteenth century were designed to preserve mineral resources by restricting exploitation.

The rule which gives the land owner the right to obtain all the groundwater beneath the land that they own is called as the

The "precautionary principle" in international law

The U.S.Exclusive Economic Zone is enormous,covering an area of more than one and one-half times the land area of the United States and its territories.

An Environmental Impact Statement is required only if one wishes to build a major structure such as a dam or engage in a large project such as developing a mine or oil field on federal lands.

The Federal Flood Disaster Protection Act