Water, Water, Everywhere
This federal statute regulates point source pollution discharged into WOTUS.
USC
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"?
What is the Socratic method?
"first in time, first in right"
What is Prior Appropriation?
CAA
Clean Air Act
This federal statute requires public notice and comment before regulatory changes take place.
What is the APA (Administrative Procedures Act)?
One party can be liable to an entire site cleanup, even if multiple parties contributed to the contamination.
What is "joint and several liability"?
Yosemite, Yellowstone, and the Everglades are all examples of what.
National Parks.
This river's fire helped spark a wave of environmental legislation.
What is the Cuyahoga River?
NEPA
National Environmental Policy Act
The members of these judicial bodies are appointed for life.
What are federal courts?
Defined by statute as "untrammeled by man".
What is "Wilderness"?
New Hampshire ski mountain in a state park.
What is Cannon?
Water itself is not regulated under this state statute--but land under and nearby is.
What is the Wetlands Protection Act?
NPDES
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
What is a "Doctrine"?
EA, EIR, and ROD are all acronyms used in what statute?
NEPA - National Environmental Policy Act
State flower of Massachusetts (and a famous boat).
What is a Mayflower?
Abutters to fresh surface water can use it, reasonable.
What are Riparian Rights?
CERCLA
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensations, and Recovery Act
The reason why states can self govern.
The U.S. Constitution, 10th Amendment.
"inherited liability"
What is, "successor liability"?
This knot is used in sailing and climbing, and consists of a loop at the end of a rope.
What is a bowline?