B A 242 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Chicago Climate Exchange, New Source Review, Montreal Protocol
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This details the powerpoints leading up to exam 3 in my ba 242 ethics class. Negative externality: advantage for a company / paid for by someone else. Environmental justice: no society should tolerate environmental harm made by someone else, no one should make harm that they themselves would not tolerate. Role, scope of epa: command and control legislation: set a maximum allowable amount monitor and punish (emissions standards, epa (1970) to set a level playing field by regulation. Air, water, land pollution problems, laws, approaches to regulation: air. 3/4th of people breathe unsafe air sometimes annually. Water pollution act: (1972) goals and timetables, point sources need permits and local/state gov"t develops plans for non-point runoff: land. Recycling, reducing (pollution prevention act 1990 provides incentives for. Point source reduction , regulating: ozone layer: if measures continue to be effective gradual recovery. 2003: protocol widely signed, 183 countries: global warming.
