Setting Emissions Standards for Each Industry, While Allowing Companies to Trade

question 88

Multiple Choice

Setting emissions standards for each industry, while allowing companies to trade "carbon credits," is an approach to environmental policy known as ________.

• A) cap and trade
• B) the green alternative
• C) NIMBY
• D) the Wall Street cooler
• E) the Gore protocol

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Definitions:

Remedies

The means by which a right is enforced or the violation of a right is prevented, redressed, or compensated.

Defective Parts

Components of a product that are flawed or malfunctioning, potentially causing harm to users or failure of the product to perform as advertised.

Assumption of Risk

A legal doctrine that holds an individual to assume the risk of any harm arising from a dangerous activity they voluntarily participate in, limiting liability for the party offering the activity.

Contributory Negligence

A legal principle where the plaintiff's own negligence played a role in the harm they suffered, which can limit or prevent recovery from the defendant.