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1. Which of the following factors has hindered the successful implementation of the Clean Water Act?
A. It remains unclear if the state or the federal government is primarily responsible for the implementation of the act.
B. Its jurisdiction is limited to monitoring the discharge of pollutants into navigable waters.
C. It is implemented by the states under the supervision of the Environmental Protection Agency.
D. It remains unclear exactly what waters are covered by the act.
2. The Council on Environmental Quality, which serves as an adviser to the president, was created by which of the following?
A. The North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation
B. The Kyoto Protocol
C. The Basel Convention
D. The National Environmental Policy Act
3. The United States has been successful in using the cap-and-trade approach to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions that were a major factor in the creation of acid rain.
True/Flase
4. The legal process involved in the protection of endangered species is a complicated and time-consuming one. It is also costly for all but which of the following groups?
A. Lawyers representing citizens groups on both sides of the issue
B. The government and, therefore, all of us as taxpayers
C. Those whose lives and livelihoods may be substantially altered by the protections extended
D. The species and our world in the event necessary protections are not extended or are not effective.