1. Which piece of legislation was passed first?
a. The Clean Water Act
b. The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
c. The Clean Air Act
d. The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
2. Under the ___________ plan, the EPA auctions a set number of sulfur dioxide emission
allowances annually, with each allowance permitting one ton of emissions.
a. allocation of resources
b. tradeable permit
c. green capitalism
d. shareholder activism
3. The Kyoto Protocol is an international treaty to reduce greenhouse admissions, signed by
over 200 countries including the United States.
I. True
II. False
4. According to MIT professor Layzer, the lobbyists for the energy corporations have used
which of the following tactics to avoid stricter regulation?
I. Portray the science of global warming as uncertain and debatable
II. Focus on the financial costs of regulation
III. Provide Senators and Representatives with financial incentives to vote against
regulation
IV. Portray the environmentalists as extremists and a vocal minority.
a. I and II
b. I, II and III
c. I and III
d. I, II and IV
5. When environmentalists recognized that politicians were not going to pass stricter legislation
and regulations, they changed their tactics to force change. According to the Layzer article
in the chapter, these new tactics included:
I. Eco-terrorism – bombing pipelines and factories.
II. Collaboration with businesses – create partnerships to improve environmental
impacts.
III. Public relations campaigns – go public with their accusations and encourage
consumers to demand change.
IV. Work internally through shareholders to try to change corporate disclosures
a. I and II
b. II and III
c. III and IV
d. II, III and IV.
6. A “green tax” uses government taxing power to benefit the environment.
a. True
b. False
7. According to John Locke, the purpose of government is to institute restraints to protect
property rights.
a. True
b. False
8. The power of the U.S. Government to take property from a private individual and use it for
public purposes is:
a. Due Process
b. Equal Protection
c. Eminent Domain
d. Suffrage
9. According to Alice Kaswan, environmental justice has had:
a. an extreme impact on environmental law
b. a significant impact on environmental law
c. a modest impact on environmental law
d. no impact on environmental law
10. According to Carmen G. Gonzalez, people go hungry because:
a. there is not enough food available
b. people are too poor to grow food
c. Both a. and b.
d. Neither a. nor b.
11. Explain how the tradeable permit plan works.
12. Discuss the obligations of human beings to Mother Earth according to the universal
declaration of rights of Mother Earth.
13. The power of eminent domain requires the government to provide just compensation to a
property owner when taking private property for public purposes. Discuss your thoughts on
whether the following should be considered “public purposes.”
14. The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution explicitly protects private property owners’
economic interests. Explain how this amendment affects owners of private property.
15. What is environmental justice? What started the movement in the United States?
16. Explain the Crisis of Agrobiodiversity as explained by Carmen G. Gonzalez.
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