U.S. Constitution
This article of the Constitution sets up the executive branch.
What is Article II?
This man testified before Congress in 1988 about climate change, placing the issue in the American consciousness for the first time.
Who is James Hansen?
This American island state produces most of its electricity through petroleum.
What is Hawaii?
This 1972 tropical storm permanently changed the face of the Chesapeake Bay.
What is Agnes?
EPA
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
This amendment abolished slavery in 1865.
What is the 13th amendment?
This controversial filmmaker spurred oil and gas executives to publish the indignant document "Debunking GasLand."
Who is Josh Fox?
This massive underground reservoir of natural gas stretches from New York to Tennessee, including beneath towns like Centralia.
What is the Marcellus Shale?
This term describes voluntary measures undertaken by farmers to lessen their environmental impact.
What are Best Management Practices (BMPs)?
TMDL
What is Total Maximum Daily Load?
This amendment states that citizens have "unenumerated" rights, possibly including a right to clean air and water.
What is the 9th amendment?
The first director of the National Park Service.
Who is Stephen Mather?
This was the largest nuclear disaster in domestic American history.
What is Three Mile Island?
This environmental advocacy group popularized the slogan "Save the Bay."
What is the Chesapeake Bay Foundation?
ANWR
This elastic clause allows Congress to make whatever laws it needs to fulfill the duties of the government.
What is the necessary and proper clause?
This current governor of New York banned fracking statewide in 2014.
Who is Andrew Cuomo?
Also known as CCS or "clean coal," this costly technology involves removing CO2 from factory emissions and piping it underground.
What is Carbon Capture and Storage?
With versions published in 1983, 1987, 2000, and 2014, this document seeks to resolve the Bay's issues through "ecosystem based management."
What is the Chesapeake Bay Agreement?
IPCC
What is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?
This section of the Constitution states its intention to "establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility," and "provide for the common defence."
What is the preamble?
Under the pseudonym "Publius," these three men published the Federalist Papers.
Who are John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton?
These are Maryland's top three energy sources for electricity production.
What are nuclear, coal, and natural gas?
This denomination of Christianity is popular among Maryland and Virginia watermen, especially on places like Tangier Island.
What is Methodism?
OPEC
What is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries?