Water, Water, Everywhere
This federal statute regulates point source pollution discharged into WOTUS.
What is the Clean Water Act?
U.S.C.
What is the "United States Code"?
This theory predicted that without regulation, there will be catastrophic population and resource decline.
What is "Limits to Growth"?
A governmental division, like a city or a town.
What is a "municipality"?
The brand of portable device you listen to cassette tapes on.
What is a "Walkman"?
"First in time, first in right."
What is Prior Appropriation?
ESA
What is the "Endangered Species Act"?
Agencies are delegated authority by statute to promulgate these laws.
What are regulations?
One party can be liable to an entire site cleanup, even if multiple parties contributed to the contamination.
What is "joint and several liability"?
The state bird of Massachusetts.
What is the black-capped chickadee?
This river's fire helped spark a wave of environmental legislation.
What is the Cuyahoga River?
NEPA
What is "National Environmental Policy Act"?
The conclusion of a legal opinion.
What is the "holding"?
A system under the CAA for reducing pollution, using economics.
What is "cap and trade"?
"You're gonna need a bigger boat" is a famous line from this 50-year old movie?
What is "Jaws"?
Water itself is not regulated under this state statute--but land under and nearby is.
What is the Wetlands Protection Act?
NPDES
What is "National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System"?
What is a "Doctrine"?
EA, EIR, and ROD are all acronyms used in this statute.
What is NEPA, or the National Environmental Policy Act?
"Left" and "right" of a ship.
What are starboard (right) and port (left)?
Abutters to fresh surface water can use it, reasonably.
What are Riparian Rights?
CERCLA
What is the "Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Recovery Act"?
This amendment allows states to self govern.
What is the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
"Inherited liability".
What is, "successor liability"?
This mollusk has the most complex eye of any creature on earth.
What is an octopus?