Ch. 18 Environmental Protection

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The Clean Water Act permits the filling or dredging of wetlands without a permit.

False

The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System focuses on industrial wastewater and storm water discharges.

False

There are no plans to develop national standards regulating the fuel economy and emissions for medium- and heavy-duty trucks.

False

Common law doctrines like nuisance and negligence no longer apply to polluters because there are so many environment-related statutes now (Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, etc).

False (Textbook p. 459)

If the government undertakes clean-up operations at a waste disposal site, only the site's current owner or operator must contribute to the cost.

False (Textbook p. 470 and class slides)

According to the NBC News video on the history of Earth Day, found in the Learning Module covering environmental law, at the time of the first Earth Day in 1970 eagles had almost disappeared.

True

Flynt operates its own municipal public drinking water system for which the Environmental Protection Agency has set maximum levels of pollutants. Flynt does not use any equipment to meet these standards. With regard to any contamination of the water, under the Safe Drinking Water Act, this is most likely​

a violation

Marion, Alabama, passes an ordinance to regulate waste disposal. The disposal of waste may also be regulated by

all other levels of government

Sandy's Solvents Corporation has waste that it wants to discharge into navigable waters. Under the Clean Water Act, Sandy's must apply for a permit

before discharging waste (Textbook p. 465)

Eagle Dry Cleaners, Inc. operates a chain of laundry establishments throughout the United States. The government entity that is most likely to be involved in regulating the chain's environmental impact is

federal and state administrative agencies (Textbook p. 460)

Breeze Energy Corp. wants to build a wind power plant on private land, for which a federal permit is required. For this action, an environmental impact statement is

required

Deep Pow Pow Ski, Inc., wants to add a new run to its facility in a national park on federal land. For this action, an environmental impact statement is​

required


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