Ethics CH10

The Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) is accurately described by which statement(s)?

Both of these answers are correct: It established a fund supported primarily by a tax on the petroleum and chemical companies; and the funds collected are used to clean up sites where the original polluter cannot be identified.

Possible costs of environmental regulation include all of the following except:

Corporate restructuring.

Ecologically sustainable organizations are accurately explained by which of these descriptions?

Making and transporting products using minimal energy.

Environmental justice is a movement to:

Prevent inequitable exposure to risk, such as from hazardous waste.

Which country has made the greatest progress in reducing its solid waste stream?

Sweden.