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| why is environmental issues difficult to cover for media |
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| it's difficult to explain, not a pressing issue (crescive), remote location |
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| what type of coverage is the environment getting |
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| it's not pay per view environment, obscure blogs, goes in waves about every decade |
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| what does the media cover about the environment |
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oil spill, nuclear accidents, water, etc
whats not covered is ocean accidification etc. |
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| what is the public opinion about the environment? |
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| want services and low taxes so jobs over environment. limited knowledge. only 5% that say they are envirmentalist give money to nat'l groups |
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| who did regan appoint as epa director |
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| what did james watt think about the environmetn |
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| open all fed land. called environmentalists unamerican. auctioned 1.1 billion tons of coal. |
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| make sure everything is approved by his administration. delay, delay, delay ( office interregulatory agency) |
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| what did regan do to the epa budget |
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| dropped it 30%. dropped 20% of staff |
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| environmentalist president |
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| what were bush 1's successes |
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| why did bush 1 have failures |
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| two head of epa and DOI were clashing |
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| who was bush 1's VP? and what did he head |
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| Dan Quayle, council on economic competiveness which was bad for the environment and would place a 90 day moratorium on environmental issues |
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| what were clinton/gore known for |
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council on sustainable development
population policy
executive order on environmental justice |
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| what were clinton/gore failures |
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| not getting epa to executive status |
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| what was bush 2 known for |
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national energy policy - largest anit-envt policy in history
anwr, no drilling fees on public grounds, nuclear power plants |
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| what were some of obama's successes |
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| renewable energy, car regulations, power points about harmful emmsisions, ocean policy |
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| what did republicans say about obama's renewable energy |
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| solyndra is corrupt org that cost 500 million to the department of energy |
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| what did obama say cars by 2025 need to be able to do |
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| what were obamas failures |
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2010 cap and trade bill failed
smog bill failed
coal ash failed
oil/gas Keystone xl |
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| what can be said about the congress and the environmetn |
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| like a spider, decentralized |
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| how many committies and subcommitties are there in congress |
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| 12 committies; 31 subcommitties |
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| how many reports do committes give to the epa annualy |
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| both positive and negative |
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| marginal benefit, downward slope |
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| payments bart makes for each level of output |
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| marginal social cost (=MD + MPC) |
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| what is a private response to a problem |
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| social convention, mergers, court |
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| what is a public response to a problem |
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| tax, sell permits, property rights |
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| reduce output from q to q* |
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| why are the three reasons we dont have enough water |
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personal use
agricultural use
industrial use |
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| dont know where the pollution is coming from |
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| 1948 water pollution control act |
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| 1956 amendments made to water pollution control act |
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| sewage treatments, state level plans for pollution |
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| study for interstate not national waters law |
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| 1966 clean water restoration act |
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national standards - bact
discharge - water quality standards
deadlines by 1983 |
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| 1974 safe drinking water act |
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| national quality standards - 83 standards |
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unfunded mandates
every 5 years epa list containments |
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| a type of land degradation in which a relatively dry land region becomes increasingly arid, typically losing its bodies of water as well as vegetation and wildlife. It is caused by a variety of factors, such as climate change and human activities. |
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towing icebergs
water baloons
replace earth walls
cloud seeding |
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| chisso fertilizer - cats had neurological disease in 1940's. 1953 mercury in water got into fish and led to minimata disease |
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| prevention of pollution by ships eventually added plastics in 1989 |
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| set boundaries of countries to 200 miles of shores. |
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| what else did the laws of sea treaty do |
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| first time in 13 years identified regions overfished, SE Asia, peru and latin america, n atlantic europe, US |
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| stuff you dont want from drift nets |
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| fishery conserv management act 1976 |
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| u.s. exclusive authority over fish, no foreign fish, species plans |
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| a change in ph, fish damage, coral bleeching |
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| 6 air pollutants identified by epa in 1970 |
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| sulfur oxide, lead, nitrogen oxide, ozone, particulats, carbon monoxide |
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| seen as a big city problem |
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| smog in pennslyvania in 1948, also london and nyc |
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clean air act
research and study auto exhaust devices |
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air quality standard
federal gov't shield study |
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clean air act
national air quality standards, states have to implement plans, new source performance standards, emissions standards epa |
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| emission standards loosened |
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acid rain
ozone depletion
national permits program
gasoline reformal
ctwt vehicles |
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| new sources review - stationary buildings had to have pollution permits |
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