Environmental Policy Holy Grails and Blunders
Across
- 2. ambiguous terminology within the CWA (1972) that resulted in decades of litigation only to be struck down during the Trump Administration
- 6. __________ of the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination which has been leveraged in the environmental justice movement
- 7. process that compares net benefits and costs of proposed environmental regulation with possible alternatives (abbreviated)
- 11. ___________'s executive order defined environmental injustice as disproportionately high and adverse health affects on certain populations due to agency programs and policy
- 13. aspect of localism that could advance or impede environmental policy depending on the interests of constituents
- 15. state that sued the EPA in 2007 in order to force enforcement of the CAA
- 16. agency with a volatile and inconsistent mission that is a part of the environmental policy bureaucracy (abbreviated)
- 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. example of pollution charge used to limit sulfur dioxide emissions
- 3. the lack of values, a vision, and policy will confine environmentalism to a _________________ designation
- 4. highly carcinogenic mineral fiber with latent impacts on human health
- 5. legislation enacted in 1972 giving the federal government regulatory authority over bodies of water (abbreviated)
- 8. branch of government previously friendly to environmental policy but became more business friendly during the 90s
- 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"
- 10. oil crisis that occurred a month after Obama conceded to Senate Republican demands for offshore energy exploration
- 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)
- 14. widely used plasticizer that created controversy for over twenty years with little reliable evidence supporting claims made