environmental policy

Question 0

What is the uncertainty in environmental policy?

Answer 0

Scientists do not know how large the greenhouse gas effect is or how to combat it

Question 1

How is environmental policy a sacrifice?

Answer 1

No one likes restrictions even if they advocate for the environment

Question 2

Why does environmental policy suffer from disordered priorities?

Answer 2

Entrepreneurial politics

Question 3

Occur when many people hope to benefit from rules that impose costs on a few firms

Answer 3

Entrepreneurial politics

Question 4

Created the environmental movement

Answer 4

Entrepreneurial politics

Question 5

Gases produced by people when they burn fossil fuels get trapped in the atmosphere and cause the earth’s temperatures to rise

Answer 5

Global warming

Question 6

Environmental policy making in the US is more _________ than it is in most European nations

Answer 6

Adversarial

Question 7

2 things which reinforce adversarial politics

Answer 7

Federalism and the separation of powers

Question 8

What new part was required to be put on new cars from 1970 onward?

Answer 8

Catalytic converter

Question 9

What did the Clean Air Act of 1970 set in place?

Answer 9

The foundation for restrictions on the amount of pollutants that could be released from a vehicle.

Question 10

A report required by federal law that assessed that possible effect of a project on the environment if the project is subsidized by federal funds

Answer 10

Environmental Impact Statement

Question 11

Rain, snow, or dust particles that fall and are acidic

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Acid rain

Question 12

Complicated and very expensive devices that take nitrous fumes out of the gas before it comes out of a smokestack

Answer 12

Scrubbers

Question 13

Notable environmental policies that contained a large number of compromises by President H. W. Bush.

Answer 13

Clean Air Act of 1990

Question 14

What group escaped or resisted efforts to restrict pesticides

Answer 14

Organized farmers

Question 15

What pesticide was banned by Congress in 1972?

Answer 15

DDT

Question 16

The goals which seek to prevent environmental damage from occurring

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Environmental goals

Question 17

The goals which seek to promote social equity and equal treatment under the law

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Social goals

Question 19

Forbids buying or selling any animal that the government regards as endangered.

Answer 19

Endangered Species Act

Question 20

What pollutants are limited by the Clean Air Act?

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Hydrocarbons and nitrous oxide

Question 21

Converters on exhaust pipes that transform pollutants into less damaging gasses

Answer 21

Catalytic converters

Question 22

Areas that had difficulty meeting the standards of The Clean Air Act

Answer 22

LA and Denver

Question 23

When was the last time the Clean Air Act was revised?

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1990

Question 24

Projects where environmentalists used Environmental Impact Statements to change the plans.

Answer 24

The Alaska pipeline, canals in Florida, and countless dams

Question 25

Source of acid rain

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Burning fuel that contains a lot of sulfur

Question 26

Where is acid rain most common?

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The Steel Belt, the Midwest, and The Great Lakes

Question 27

2 disadvantages to the use of scrubbers

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They create toxic sludge and they don't always work

Question 28

Why did it take so long for anything to be done about the acid rain in the Midwest?

Answer 28

Political stalemate between manufacturers and environmentalists

Question 29

Why is it difficult to change existing environmental policies?

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Increased involvement of highly organized interest groups

Question 30

Best known environmental interest group

Answer 30

Environmental Defense Fund

Question 31

An example of client politics in environmental policy

Answer 31

Agricultural pesticides

Question 32

Book which brought about the banning of DDT

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Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring"

Question 33

What is the farmers' argument for pesticides?

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They cannot achieve adequate production of crop without them

Question 34

How have farming interest groups kept pesticides off the political agenda?

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Keeping the EPA's budget for reviewing pesticides small

Question 35

What is the greatest political setback for environmental policy?

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The uncertainty about the environment itself

Question 36

2 examples of environmental uncertainty

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Exact nature of global climate change and the toxicity of certain pollutants

Question 37

How can environmental goals be met?

Answer 37

Policies must have an active effect on the environment

Question 38

Why are social and economic goals an issue in environmental policy?

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Policies must not put the socially disadvantaged at risk. Nor can they discourage economic growth

Question 39

A strategy which believes that environmental damage can be prevented by setting detailed standards and punishing corporations who exceed them and rewarding those who do well

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Command and control

Question 40

Strategy by which the government gives emissions permits to companies that equal their projected emissions. When a company emits less than is standard, they are allowed to sell these permits to other companies.

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Cap and trade

Question 41

Companies that wish to build new plants must offset their emissions in that area by buying a smaller company and shutting them down. Essentially cap, but no trade.

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Offsets

Question 42

The government sets a certain bubble standard on how much air pollution can be emitted. The company is then free to decide how to fall under that bubble.

Answer 42

Bubble standards

Question 43

What has the creation of the EPA led to?

Answer 43

More environmental policy being implemented.

Question 44

Cap and trade

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Strategy by which the government gives emissions permits to companies that equal their projected emissions. When a company emits less than is standard, they are allowed to sell these permits to other companies.

Question 45

Offsets

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Companies that wish to build new plants must offset their emissions in that area by buying a smaller company and shutting them down. Essentially cap, but no trade.

Question 46

The government sets a certain bubble standard on how much air pollution can be emitted. The company is then free to decide how to fall under that bubble.

Answer 46

Bubble standards

Question 47

What is the main argument against command-and-control?

Answer 47

It places the burden on tax payers rather than the sources of pollution

Question 48

When the organized group benefits and the unorganized public pays.

Answer 48

Client politics