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Select all the correct answers. What are three environmental hazards associated with the process of extracting fossil fuels?
Driving cars requires gas, which is drilled from the Earth in the form of fossil fuels. What is one negative impact this could have on the ocean environment?
What sustainability means to you and how your actions and behaviors can impact the environment.
What is the main finding of Monogan, Konisky, and Woods (2017), "Gone with the Wind: Fedralism and the Strategic Location of Air Polluters"?
Efforts to protect the environment are part of the sustainability movement. Choose the item that is NOT a goal aimed at protecting the environment.
Problem: Design a "green" campus with a focus on minimizing environmental impact.
Which policies were most effective (i.e., caused the largest drop in temperature)? Was this different from your expectations?
An environmental assessment practitioner (EAP) may not... . a. be independent b. belong to an assessment association
What is a waste-to-energy facility? Responses a recycling method that makes electricity a recycling method that makes electricity a plant that converts garbage
Discuss with your classmates the method and resources you would use to identify any ionizing radiation sources at a facility.
Question: What do these two images suggest about the impact of climate change in the twenty-first century?
Question: Explain how deforestation, gold mining, and hydroelectric projects affect the tropical rainforest of Brazil.
Septic tanks now qualify as USTs and fall under the guidelines of RCRA Subtitle I which mean that homeowners with private septic tanks must assess
In the late 1980s, the U.S. EPA estimated over 2 million USTs at over 700,000 facilities existed within the U.S. Now less than 100,000 underground storage
This document tracks the hazardous waste from the its point of origin to its final destination (i.e. disposal) and must be signed
Question: Which of the following is not a primary goal of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)?
Which of the following is the most environmentally preferred strategy because it means reducing the waste at the source and decreasing the amount
Question: Which of the following laws was passed in 1976 to regulate solid and hazardous waste disposal?
What piece of legislation aims to provide permanent remedies for abandoned or inactive sites that contain dangerous toxic waste?
When companies work with indigenous communities to find solutions that respect the land and acknowledge the people's voices in decision making
Question: What piece of legislation regulates water quality in commercial and municipal systems?
The shift to an activity-based paradim has also received an impetus because of the increased information demands placed on travel models by what act?=
Burning rice straw after harvesting in Guyana, as in many other rice-producing regions, can cause several environmental and health problems.
The richmond california youth air quality initiative occured in richmond californa to research air quality in richmond due to the pollution from industrial faci