Green Energy
Cleanest source of alternative energy
What is nuclear
What EPA stands for
What is the environmental protection agency (EPA)?
Most potent, long-term greenhouse gas
What is CO2?
Average American carbon footprint per year
What is 16 tons (compared to a global avg of 4)?
Ocean ecosystem that is being killed by climate change
What are coral reefs
Atomic substance used to create batteries
What is Lithium?
Name of the bill that regulates USA air emissions
What is the Clean Air Act (CAA)
Decade in which the greenhouse gas effect was discovered
What is the 1850s (1859 to be specific)?
Biggest producer of carbon waste in the American household
What is cars/transportation?
Amount of trash (tons) dumped into the ocean every year
What is 8 million metric tons?
Biggest source of green energy in Texas
What is wind?
Founder of the national park service
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Name of the global, climate confederation
What is the United Nations Climate Change Conference?
% of Americans who compost
What is ~28%?
What is 0.5%?
% of USA fueled by green energy
What is ~30%
Book about birds that revolutionized pesticide regulation
What is Silent Spring
Year the Paris Climate agreement was signed
Amount of trash (in lbs) thrown out per day by a single American household
What is 4.9 lbs pp?
Name of the act that regulates pollution into all American water (pollution control)
What is the Clean Water Act (CWA)?
5 major types of green energy
Solar, wind, geothermal, biofuels, and hydroelectric
Texas environmental regulation/policing agency
What is Texas Committee for Environmental Quality (TCEQ)
Discoverer of greenhouse gas effect
Who is John Tyndall?
What is 20% (one-in-five)?
Source of carbon based energy in the ocean
What are methane hydrates?