Environmental Policy, Laws, and People Quiz Review

Kyoto Protocol

• international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion.
• nternational treaty that allows a trademark owner to seek registration in any of the countries that have joined the Madrid Protocol 
• international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which commits its Parties by setting internationally binding emission reduction targets.

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Endangered Species Act 1973 

• created the National Wilderness Preservation System and recognized wilderness as “an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.
• Protects endangered species
• significantly amended portions of the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act 

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This act  was created by the US Environmental Protection Agency to authorize the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) to assist in the creations of law to protect the environment. This act was also established to handle problems such as acid rain, ground-level ozone, and air toxics.

• Clean Air Act
• Clean Water Act
• Energy Policy Act
• Department of Energy

This is the federal organization that ensures that all Americans are protected against specific hazards to the environment and human health where they learn, work and live.

• Department of Energy
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission
• Environmental Protection Agency
• Energy Policy Act

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a system the US government uses first to determine an acceptable amount of a specific pollutant than assigns (via permits) a fraction of that amount to industrial sources of the pollutant

• market failure

• ecolabeling

• command-and-control approach

• cap-and-trade

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a tax levied on companies that participate in activities or produce products that are harmful to the environment

• economics

• market failure

• cost-benefit analysis

• green tax

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a labeling system that tells consumers which brands are made with processes that do not harm the environment

• command-and-control approach

• green tax

• ecolabeling

• cap-and-trade

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A method in which decision makers compare what will be sacrificed and gained by taking a specific action.

• Cost-benefit analysis

• compare and contrast

• ven diagram

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An approach to environmental policy in which government body sets rules and threatens punishment for violations

• command and control

• policy

• subsidies

A tax levied on companies that participate in activities or produce products that are harmful to the environment

• Subsidy

• Green taxes

• Cap and trade

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