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Politics & Policy
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100

This fuel emits the highest amount of carbon dioxide per unit of energy it generates.

What is COAL?

100

This main UN organization provides leadership and coordination on environmental issues.

What is the UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAM (UNEP)?

100

This food crop is a major staple.

What is WHEAT?

100

This president created the Environmental Protection Agency.

Who is NIXON?

100

This faculty member was runner-up in Austrian team gymnastics, and runner-up in the Minnesota state team chess championship.

Who is GERNOT WAGNER?
200
This practice creates energy by breaking atoms into multiple parts, creating new atoms and heat in the process.

What is NUCLEAR FISSION?

200

The first global meeting about the environment was held in 1972 in this city.

What is STOCKHOLM?

200

This food embodies high greenhouse gas emissions relative to most other foods.

What is MEAT?

200

This 1970 Act imposed restrictions on pollutants from automobiles.

What is the CLEAN AIR ACT?

200

This faculty member was a member of a lindy hop performance troupe,

Who is KIM CARLSON?

300

This fuel is made through electrolysis.

What is HYDROGEN?
300

This 1992 declaration stated the eradication of poverty was crucial to sustainable development.

What is the RIO DECLARATION?

300

This form of energy increases with higher atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations.

What is HEAT?

300

This system for controlling carbon emissions involves tradable pollution allowances.

What is CAP AND TRADE?

300

This faculty member spent a summer living in a house with 60 cats in Hawaii.

Who is JEFF SEBO?

400

The sun's energy is produced with this process.

What is NUCLEAR FUSION?

400

Advocates are lobbying for this declaration that acknowledges the sentience and rights of animals to be adopted by the UN.

What is the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION ON ANIMAL WELFARE (UDAW)?

400

Climate change worsens the intensity and frequency of some types of this atmospheric behavior.

What is WEATHER?

400

NEPA requires this must be written if a proposed federal action is determined to significantly affect the quality of the human environment. 

What is an ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT?

400

This faculty member left college to go mountaineering, with the intention of never finishing school.

Who is CHRIS SCHLOTTMANN?

500

This pressurized fossil fuel is used in many buses and cars.

What is CNG (COMPRESSED NATURAL GAS)?

500

This event was organized on the sidelines of the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment to advocate for a moratorium on commercial whaling.

What is CRY OF THE VANISHING WHALE?

500

These wetlands emit CO2 when drained.

What are PEATLANDS?

500

This 2007 Supreme Court ruling found that greenhouse gases are air pollutants, eligible for regulation by this case's appellee.

What is MASSACHUSETTS VS EPA?

500

This faculty member played in a punk rock band in college.

Who is MATT HAYEK?

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