In Pollution Cases Involving Strict Liability for Abnormally Dangerous Activities

question 191

Multiple Choice

In pollution cases involving strict liability for abnormally dangerous activities, courts have NOT found which of the following activities to be abnormally dangerous:

• A) crop dusting
• B) leakage of chemicals into ground water
• C) storing of flammable liquids in quantity in an unpopulated area
• D) emitting of noxious gases by factories
• E) all of the other specific choices have been found to be abnormally dangerous by the courts

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Definitions:

Secondary Succession

The process of ecological recovery in an area where a biological community was partially removed but where soil remains.

Primary Succession

Ecological succession that occurs in an environment in which new substrate devoid of vegetation and usually lacking soil, such as a lava flow or area left from retreated glacier, is deposited.

Forest Fire

Uncontrolled fire occurring in woodland or bush areas, which can have both destructive and beneficial effects on ecosystems.

Succession

The progressive, natural change in an ecosystem's species composition over time, leading to ecological stability.