EPA
Who is Richard Nixon?
The primary cause of climate change.
What is Humans?
Establishes structure for regulating discharge of pollutants into US waters, as well as regulating quality standards for surface waters
What is the Clean Water Act?
Renewable energy sector making up the largest proportion of growth in the renewable energy mix, growing from .8% in 2010 to 10.3% in 2019
What is Solar?
The most unpredictable and destructive type of natural disaster
What is an Earthquake?
Number of unique regions that implement agency and state programs.
What is 10?
International agreement to keep global temperature from exceeding 1.5o Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
What is the Paris Agreement?
Provides federal funding to clean up uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites and other emergency releases of pollutants
What is the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Superfund)?
Almost half of the world's renewable energy capacity is located in this continent.
What is Asia?
Country where the largest ever recorded earthquake happened in 1960
What is Chile?
Program established in 1992 in collaboration with DOE to promote energy efficiency.
What is Energy Star?
The warmest decade on record so far
What is 2011 to 2020?
Program that requires reporting of GHG data and other relevant information from major emissions sources, fuel and gas suppliers, and CO2 injection sites
What is the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP)?
The amount of the world's electricity that comes from renewable energy today
What is 30%
The United States experiences this hazard more than any other country in the world
What is a tornado?
Label found on various products that helps consumers choose products with chemicals that are safer for people and the environment.
What is the EPA Safer Choice (FKA Design for the Environment) label?
Oceans have absorbed this percentage of heat gained by the planet between 1971 and 2010.
What is 90%?
Act that gives EPA authority to regulate the disposal of hazardous waste from cradle to grave, as well as creating a framework for managing non-hazardous solid waste
What is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)?
Renewable energy sector with the largest amount of jobs, at 4.3 million?
What is the photovoltaic energy sector?
The number of billion-dollar weather-related disasters that the U.S. has faced from 1980 to 2017
What is 208?
The name of the presidential directive establishing the EPA
What is Reorganization Plan No. 3?
The monetary cost of inaction on climate change by is expected to reach this amount by 2060, with the most significant GDP losses in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia
What is $44 trillion?
Set of emissions standards that intend to reduce emissions of hazardous air pollutants from facilities that manufacture organic pesticide active ingredients
What are the Pesticide Active Ingredient Production Industry: National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP)?
Name of America's first comprehensive plan to ensure security and increase the country's energy independence, produced in response to EO 14017, America's Supply Chains
What is "America's Strategy to Secure the Supply Chain for a Robust Clean Energy Transition"?
This 1991 eruption resulted in a drop in global temperatures by about 1-degree Fahrenheit
What is the Eruption of Mount Pinatubo?