Question: Environmental Impact Statements outline the _______.

Answer: environmental effects of proposed government agency actions

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Question: Explicit premises are __________.

Answer: clear, obvious, and direct

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Question: Which of the following lists disadvantages of nuclear power?

Answer: Nuclear power produces radioactive waste and creates a potential for disaster.

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Question: The 1972 Congressional Clean Water Act

Answer: gave the EPA the authority to regulate water quality in navigable waterways.

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Question: What is the main function of environmental policy?

Answer: prevent nature from having a harmful effect on humans

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Question: Which of the following best describes the role of scientific knowledge in society?

Answer: Advances in scientific knowledge can be beneficial to society if applied responsibly.

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Question: Which of the following statements about the cap and dividend policy is not true?

Answer: The number of issued permits under the cap and dividend policy increases year to year.

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Question: Why is it important for environmental policy to address pollution concerns?

Answer: All of the above

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Question: Which of the following is not a strategy for improving the long-term health of cities?

Answer: increasing automobile use

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Question: What is the implicit premise in the following argument?

My boss should let me go home early today. Last night I played an epic 12-hour marathon of Halo.

Answer: The person speaking did not get any sleep last night.

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Question: What is the main goal of the Pacific Region Coastal Program?

Answer: restore wetland and forest habitats

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Question: Which of the following best describes the areas studied as a part of environmental sociology?

Answer: the interactions between social organization and the physical environment

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Question: Conservation efforts have resulted in restoration of some wildlife habitats.

Answer: T

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Question: The 1974 Congressional Safe Drinking Water Act

Answer: empowered the EPA to protect groundwater in the United States.

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Question: Which of the following environmental justice policies would the Environmental Protection Agency be least interested in and able to support?

Answer: social justice

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Question: The Office of Ecology and Natural Resource Conservation works to

Answer: develop foreign policy regarding the sustainable use of natural resources

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Question: Which of the following eventually resulted in Niagara Falls' Love Canal neighborhood being declared a federal emergency in 1978?

Answer: A neighborhood there had been built over a toxic dump.

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Question: Water usage in the United States has

Answer: tripled during the last fifty years.

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Question: Monitoring environmental parameters can help policy makers determine

Answer: all of the above

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Question: Environmental degradation is a consequence of previous technological advances.

Answer: T

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Question: Increased energy efficiency ultimately leads to lower costs.

Answer: T

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Question: The United States has the most aggressive programs in place to reduce carbon emissions of any other country.

Answer: T

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Question: Why was the town of Picher, Oklahoma, evacuated in 2009?

Answer: A large number of its children had suffered from lead poisoning.

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Question: Which of the following names two Congressional actions, one intended to prevent pollution and another intended to clean toxic sites?

Answer: the Clean Air Act and the Superfund

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Question: Who finances the EPA's Superfund?

Answer: the US government and companies that pollute

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