Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

1. The Clean Water Act, originally passed in 1972, was successful in achieving its stated goal of
eliminating the release of "toxics in toxic amounts" by 1985.
2. The quality of water in the nation's rivers and streams has improved so much that by 2016
nearly 100% of that nation's rivers and streams had a biological condition of good.
3. The greenhouse effect refers to the physical phenomenon in which certain gases accumulate in the atmosphere and tend to warm the planet because they reflect solar radiation back to the
planet. Since CO2 concentrations have increased from 250 parts per million in 1900 to almost
405 by 2016, the greenhouse effect has increased.
4. Externalities always arise because of a failure of transferability.


1. FALSE
2. FALSE
3. TRUE
4. FALSE

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