Externality correct answers When people do not hear the full cost of their decisions. This prevents the market system from achieving a clean environment on its own.
Clean Air Act (CAA) correct answers Federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level.
CAA correct answers Clean...
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Externality correct answers When people do not hear the full cost of their decisions. This
prevents the market system from achieving a clean environment on its own.
Clean Air Act (CAA) correct answers Federal law designed to control air pollution on a national
level.
CAA correct answers Clean Air Act
SIPs correct answers State Implementation Plans
Stationery source correct answers Any building or facility that emits pollution
BACT correct answers Best Available Control Technology
PSD correct answers Prevention of Significant Deterioration
Paris Accord correct answers An international agreement to prevent climate change by reducing
GHGs. Each country sets its own goals, there are no penalties.
Domestic Regulation correct answers If GHGs endanger health or welfare, the EPA must
regulate them, states are able to set their own standards if they are stricter. This is called...
Point sources correct answers A water pollution source that discharged from a single producer
Nonpoint sources correct answers A water pollution source that results from events such as
storm-water runoff or rain.
Clean water act (1972) goals correct answers 1. To make all navigable water suitable for
swimming and fishing by 1983 and
2. To eliminate the discharge of pollutants into navigable water by 1985
These have not been met.
TMDLs correct answers total maximum daily loads of permitted pollution
RCRA correct answers Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
Superfund correct answers Another name for the Comprehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation and liability act (CERCLA)
CERCLA correct answers Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and
Liability Act
TSCA correct answers Toxic Substances Control Act
, Toxic substance control act correct answers This act prohibits the use of new chemicals or old
chemicals used in new ways until the EPA has determined they are safe
National Environmental Policy Act correct answers This act requires agencies to prepare an
environmental impact statement (EIS) for every major federal action significantly affecting the
quality of the human environment
Endangered species act correct answers This act requires the department of the Interior's fish and
wildlife service to name endangered species and develop plans to revive them
Endangered species act correct answers Prohibits taking, harming, sale or transport of
endangered species
Endangered species act correct answers Requires all federal agencies to ensure that their actions
will not jeopardize endangered species or habitat
Patent correct answers This gives an inventor the right to prevent others from making, using, or
selling his invention for a limited time
Design patent correct answers This type of patent protects the appearance, not the function, of an
item
Plant patent correct answers This type of patent protections people for making new plants,
provided that he is able to reproduce it through grafting
Utility patents correct answers This type of patent protects the way an invention works
Novelty correct answers A requirement for a utility patent, that it must be new in order to be
patentable
Nonobviousness correct answers A requirement for a utility plant, that it must be unexpected to
be patentable
Utility correct answers A requirement for a utility plant, that it must be used for its stated
purpose to be patentable
The Paris convention for the protection of industrial property correct answers This requires each
member country to grant to citizens of other member countries the same rights under patent law
as its own citizens enjoy
PCT correct answers Patent Cooperation Treaty
Patent cooperation treaty correct answers Under this, applicants are offered a single filing and
streamlined review process
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