To Enforce Environmental Protection Laws Is No Small or Easy

question 15

Multiple Choice

To enforce environmental protection laws is no small or easy matter.The enforcement usually involves

• A)primarily a private matter,but one where government agencies are empowered to enforce.
• B)requiring polluters to refrain from harmful activities,to remedy existing situations,and to pay for the costs of clean-up.
• C)situations where public authorities are over-zealous with a wide variety of enforcement mechanisms,which they apply abusively.
• D)the responsibility of corporations,since they are the major polluters.
• E)the common law tort of nuisance.

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Definitions:

Contingency

An upcoming occurrence or situation that may happen but whose certainty cannot be guaranteed.

Classical Conditioning

Classical conditioning is a learning process where a biologically potent stimulus is paired with a previously neutral stimulus, resulting in a learned response to the neutral stimulus.

US

A country located in North America, known officially as the United States of America, characterized by a federal republic governmental structure.

CR

Depending on the context, CR can refer to a variety of concepts; without further clarification, it could mean Conditioned Reflexes, Critical Reading, or something entirely different.