Chemistry
This killed George Tenent's cows.
What are PFAS?
This President signed an order creating EPA.
Who is Richard Nixon?
“Where conflicting interests must be reconciled, the question shall always be answered from the standpoint of the greatest good of the greatest number in the long run.”
Who is Gifford Pinchot?
Belleville raised the concern at the end of last class that these three major environmental concerns may not be appropriately addressable under existing environmental laws.
What are PFAS, microplastics, and climate change?
Generally, federal permitting of any infrastructure project that “significantly affects the human environment” must include the preparation of one of these.
What is an environmental impact statement?
CH4
What is methane?
The current administrator of EPA
Who is Lee Zeldin?
“Under my plan, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. If somebody wanted to build a coal-fired power plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them.”
Who is Obama?
He wrote the textbook we used.
Who is Percival?
Section 404 permits under the Clean Water Act (for dumping dredge and fill material) are issued by this agency.
What is the Army Corps of Engineers?
This chemical element caused a reckoning with the drinking water system in Flint, MI eight or nine years ago.
What is lead?
The current (acting) Attorney General.
Who is Todd Blanche?
“an area where earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man”
(the correct answer is a statute)
The Wilderness Act
You all gave presentations on your favorite Superfund site. In order to be eligible to tap Superfund money, a site must be identified where?
What is the National Priorities List?
This high-profile proposed gold and copper mine at the headwaters of Bristol Bay in Alaska has been fighting for clean water permits for more than a decade, permits that were recently rejected (again) by EPA.
What is the Pebble Gold and Copper Mine?
The amount of GHGs in the atmosphere, currently exceeding 420, is measured by this unit.
This questionably named act in 2022 is the single greatest investment in climate mitigation in U.S. history.
What is the Inflation Reduction Act?
“a thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of a biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”
Who is Aldo Leopold?
We listened to this Joni Mitchell song (since covered by others) in its entirety when we were discussing the 1960s/70s birth of modern environmental law.
Friends of Buckingham v. State Air Pollution Control Board (4th Cir. 2020), a significant case in the fight for environmental justice, involved the proposed siting of this in a minority community in southern Virginia.
What is a natural gas compressor station?
These chemicals – used in the manufacture of aerosol sprays, blowing agents for foams and packing materials, as solvents, and as refrigerants – were banned as part of an effort to heal the ozone hole in the atmosphere.
What are Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)?
This major environmental law had to be enacted over the President’s veto.
What is the Clean Water Act?
"By the law of nature these things are common to all mankind: the air, running water, the sea, and consequently the shores of the sea."
Who is Justinian?
(Actually, the Justinian Code, specifically The Institutes of Justinian (AD 535), Book II. Of Things)
Put these in the correct order by date of enactment:
Clean Water Act
Clean Air Act
National Environmental Policy Act
RCRA
CERCLA
Clean Water Act
Safe Drinking Water Act
What is NEPA (1969/1970)
CAA (1970)
CWA (1972)
SDWA (1974)
RCRA (1976)
CERCLA (1980)?
This 2000-acre mountaintop mining project was vetoed by EPA in 2010, three years after the Army Corps had issued a permit for it to proceed.
What is the Spruce No. 1 Mine?