Environmental Policy Holy Grails and Blunders

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Across
  1. 2. ambiguous terminology within the CWA (1972) that resulted in decades of litigation only to be struck down during the Trump Administration
  2. 6. __________ of the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination which has been leveraged in the environmental justice movement
  3. 7. process that compares net benefits and costs of proposed environmental regulation with possible alternatives (abbreviated)
  4. 11. ___________'s executive order defined environmental injustice as disproportionately high and adverse health affects on certain populations due to agency programs and policy
  5. 13. aspect of localism that could advance or impede environmental policy depending on the interests of constituents
  6. 15. state that sued the EPA in 2007 in order to force enforcement of the CAA
  7. 16. agency with a volatile and inconsistent mission that is a part of the environmental policy bureaucracy (abbreviated)
  8. 17. example of the precautionary principle; unexplained deaths with ________ were suggested to be linked to a pesticide which turned out to have been ONE of the many causes of the unexplained deaths
Down
  1. 1. example of pollution charge used to limit sulfur dioxide emissions
  2. 3. the lack of values, a vision, and policy will confine environmentalism to a _________________ designation
  3. 4. highly carcinogenic mineral fiber with latent impacts on human health
  4. 5. legislation enacted in 1972 giving the federal government regulatory authority over bodies of water (abbreviated)
  5. 8. branch of government previously friendly to environmental policy but became more business friendly during the 90s
  6. 9. presence of the chemical warranted relocation of the residents in the community it was discovered all for news to come out about the action being "unnecessary"
  7. 10. oil crisis that occurred a month after Obama conceded to Senate Republican demands for offshore energy exploration
  8. 12. regulatory agency created in 1970 by Nixon responsible for air quality, water quality, hazardous and chemical waste regulation, and other things like noise pollution (abbreviated)
  9. 14. widely used plasticizer that created controversy for over twenty years with little reliable evidence supporting claims made