Identify the two major pieces of legislation Congress passed to address the problem of toxic wastes and the purpose behind each.
What will be an ideal response?
The two pieces of legislation are the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and the Superfund amendments of 1986. The RCRA required the EPA to determine what chemicals were hazardous and the appropriate means of disposing of them and to establish a system of permits to ensure that hazardous chemicals were indeed disposed of properly. Students may also mention the Reagan administration attack on RCRA and the general weakening of the RCRA by both Reagan and George H. W. Bush. The Superfund amendments were passed as a result of the increasing impatience of Congress regarding the planned cleanup schedule and deviations from the law’s intent. The 1986 amendments required the manufacturers of toxic chemicals to monitor the types and releases of those chemicals.
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The section of the U.S. Constitution commonly referred to as the Bill of Rights consists of
a. the powers of the president to curtail individual rights. b. the amendments to the Constitution, added in 1789 following ratification, which guarantee specific rights and divisions of power. c. Article III, which sets up the judicial branch. d. voluntary measures to ensure domestic tranquility. e. police powers that are designed to control citizen uprisings.
What are comparative politics and the comparative method of developing arguments?
What will be an ideal response?
The Constitution establishes this rule: "The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative." According to this rule, the House of Representatives could have, on average, which of the following (we assume for this question that each state has at least 100,000 inhabitants):
A. fewer than 30.000 inhabitants per seat. B. two seats for every 30,000 inhabitants. C. one seat for every 20,000 inhabitants. D. one seat for every 100,000 inhabitants.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Cost-benefit analysis is the most commonly employed evaluation technique, other than the informal promptings of intuition and experience. 2. The Army Corps of Engineers used cost-benefit analysis as early as 1900s to evaluate the merits of proposed improvements to rivers and harbors. 3. When identifying and assessing costs and benefits, the analyst must be concerned with the range of effects of the proposed program and the point at which the analysis disregards the effects as being too remote for consideration. 4. In part because of the uncertainty over future costs and benefits and in part because of the general principle that people prefer a dollar tomorrow over a dollar today, the cost and benefits of projects must be converted to present values before useful cost-benefit calculations can be made. 5. The reliance on market logic for nonmarket decisions in the public sector is a fundamental irony in cost-benefit analysis.