Environmental Policy

Makes use of science, ethics, economics, and political process to solve environmental problems.

• industrialization

• environmental policy

• environmental science

• environmental Impact statement

What does EIS stand for?

• Environmental Impact Statement

• Environmental Incident Statement

• Environmental Impact Statute

• Environmental Incident Stucture

What President instituted the EIS and the EPA

• Reagan

• Ford

• Kennedy

• Nixon

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

Sustainability

• The process of maintaining resources so they are not depleted or permanently damaged.

• The ability to read minds

• The ability to save resources for years and years

Economics is...

• studying goods, services, and how people can get them.
• studying trees, bushes, and other plants.
• studying animals and wildlife.
• studying food, and how food is made.

Lobbyist are people who try to influence legislation, regulation, and other government decisions, actions, or policies on behalf of a group that hired them.

• True

• False

__________ is an energy resource that WILL NOT run out in the next several hundred years.

• Renewable Energy Resource
• Nonrenewable Energy Resource

Coal is a __________ energy resource.

• Renewable
• Nonrenewable

Any potentially harmful substance that humans add to an ecosystem

• a dung pile

• a pollutant

• is always a carcinogen

• is an inorganic substance.