5.06 Quiz Other Types Of Environmental Legislation
Question: Which law provides for the cleanup of toxic waste sites in the United States?
Answer: CERCLA
Question: When a toxic waste site is listed by the U.S. government, who is initially responsible for cleaning up the site?
Answer: the parties responsible for the waste
Question: What does the Soil and Water Resources Conservation Act require?
Answer: that the government appraise conservation efforts
Question: Why did the cleanup of Superfund sites begin to lag after 1995?
Answer: A tax that had funded Superfund was repealed.
Question: Which is not a problem that many New Zealand businesses see in the Resource Management Act (RMA)?
Answer: Smaller companies were favored in the consent application process.