Environmental Policy

Question 1

Free Riders

Answer 1

The one in Tragedy of the Commons scenario that selfishly takes advantage of the others for personal gain.

Question 2

Why is Environmental Policy unpopular?

Answer 2

Land Takings
Zoning Regulations
Business leniency/strictness
Permitting/Building

Question 3

Environmental Policy

Answer 3

A formal set of rules and regulations designed to address problems and direct decisions

Question 4

What branch do the Administrative Agencies come from?

Answer 4

Executive Branch - The President

Question 5

Grassroots Organization

Answer 5

An influential small group organization that attempt to persuade their congressmen/women to initiate laws for their benefit.

Question 6

Lobbyist

Answer 6

An influential group that is paid by corporations to lobby, congressmen/women to make rules to benefit the corporation.

Question 7

NOAA

Answer 7

National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration

Question 8

EPA

Answer 8

Environmental Protection Agency

Question 9

TVA

Answer 9

Tennessee Valley Authority

Question 10

CDC

Answer 10

Center for Disease Control

Question 11

ATSDR

Answer 11

Agency for Toxic Substances and Diseases Registry

Question 12

FDA

Answer 12

Food and Drug Administration

Question 13

14th Amendment

Answer 13

Keeps a state from denying any one person to ‘equal protection of the law’

Question 14

5th Amendment

Answer 14

Private Property shall not be taken without just compensation (Taking clause)

Question 15

The First Era mainly addressed…

Answer 15

Public Land Management

Question 16

Homestead Act of 1862

Answer 16

For $16 a family could have 160 acres of land if they lived there for 5 years

Question 17

Western Expansion

Answer 17

Oklahoma land rush/Indian Dispersal

Question 18

What were the Land Grant Universities?

Answer 18

Cal, OSU, LSU, A&M, MSU, Penn State, CSU

Question 19

What was the first national park?

Answer 19

Yellowstone

Question 20

During the Second Era (1873-1962) the US government began

Answer 20

Enacting protection laws for the land of the west due to environmental blunders (because of rise in population)

Question 21

The third era (1962-now) begins with

Answer 21

Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring

Question 22

Social change starts active protesting that leads to

Answer 22

Changes in Federal Law

Question 23

Third Era Disasters

Answer 23

Exxon Valdez Spill
Cuyahoga River
Three Mile Island

Question 24

Customary Law

Answer 24

From a particular country’s culture

Question 25

Conventional Law

Answer 25

From conventions or treaties from multinational conferences. Generally led by the UN, EU, or the WTO

Question 26

The World Bank

Answer 26

Largest source worldwide for economic development

Question 27

Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)

Answer 27

Advocacy groups such as Greenpeace, Sierra Club, and the World Wide Fund

Question 28

Command and Control approach

Answer 28

Where rules and limitations threaten punishment for violating parties

Question 29

What are forms of government intervention?

Answer 29

Subsidies and Green Taxes

Question 30

Subsidy

Answer 30

Giving of government funds to encourage a particular activity. Could go either way.

Question 31

Green Taxes

Answer 31

Government taking corporations/individuals for harming the environment.