ENVIRO-EXAM1

What do plantiffs need to prove?

Causation(why), damages, breach(failure)

Injunction

A formal order to stop doing an act

Abatement

A remedy given to a person or business, a tax abatement for example.

Damages

Violation of someone’s rights

Included/Excluded from the clean water act

Point source discharges, NPDES permit to pollute. Ground water/Agriculture

Permitting strategies for finding air polluting sources

Clean air act, looking for point sources

Which laws enable states to develop stricter environmental standards if they choose, and which require a special state-specific waiver to do so

Clean air act requires state specific waver. Clean water/safe drinking water act to develop enviro standards

Which policy uses lifecycle assessment as a policy design tool to regulate pollution.

Ecodesign for sustainable products? (Look deeper)

Where does WA State send its hazardous waste?

Chemical waste management oregon

How is the presence or absence of odor pollution assessed at the Tacoma waste water treatment plant under the regulations of the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency?

Stage 1 and 2, barely noticable and nose destroying

We were told that waste water treatment plant operators could be considered zookeepers of microorganisms.  How did they rebuild their population of microorganisms after a mass die off?

Seeding by asking other plants to send there microorganisms over

Which two legal definitions explicitly exclude return flows from irrigation?

Permit requirement and point source both allow agricultural pollution

What action did Tacoma water that Flint, MI did not take that affected lead levels in water?

Tacoma tracked and removed “goosenecks” special pipes that were made of lead.

What does an endangerment finding enable the EPA to do with regard to CO2 emissions under the Clean Air Act?  Or, conversely, what power would the EPA lose regarding CO2 emissions if the endangerment finding is overturned?

Market regulation, carbon limits (add more)

Multiple choice on what Tacoma Water uses air strippers to remove from the water supply

Volatile air compounds

Multiple choice on who or what the single largest water customer was (and used mostly ground water) until three years ago

Pulping factory

Clean Water Act

No point source discharge

Clean Air Act

Regulates air pollutants, carbon dioxide, ozone