Identify and define one of the major implementation problems associated with environmental policies.
What will be an ideal response?
Students may include in their answers the following: standard setting--in which phrases such as “primary and secondary standards of air quality” and “best available technology” are not clearly defined in the law, leading to enforcement confusion; and that the enforcement of environmental legislation has been less “draconian” than the authority granted to agencies to close down an industry for noncompliance.
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Which countries joined the United States in a trade agreement called NAFTA?
a. Mexico and Central America b. Canada and the United States c. the G8 d. Canada and Mexico
What is a reason that states can impose taxes on the extraction of energy resources without the fear of industries abandoning their states?
A. States can sue energy industries to replenish state coffers. B. Energy industries are more honest in how they interact with state governments than are other industries. C. Competition in the market place works to the advantage of energy industries. D. Energy industries are not mobile, as the resources needed are geographically specific.
Before 1933, Congress had never dared to comprehensively regulate the sale of securities or the trading of those securities through a secondary market, which led to
a. a lack of people willing to invest. b. stringent self-regulation. c. average citizens gaining access to once-elite investment opportunities. d. competition and lack of cooperation between operations. e. fraud and irresponsibility on Wall Street.
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What will be an ideal response?