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NYC Environmental Police Officer exam || Verified
Questions and Correct Answers with EXPLANATIONS
LATEST THIS YEAR.pdf||NEWEST EXAM!!!
In classifying the US Presidents in terms of their influence
on environmental policy, Vig set up six criteria to examine
and evaluate several indicators. Which of the followings is
not included in those six criteria?
a. Political communication
b. Appointments to key positions
c. Priority given to environmental programs in the
president's proposed budgets
d. Legislative success
e. Executive orders and other actions by the president
f. Support for or opposition to international environmental
agreements
g. Environmental agenda - Answer-a
US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created
by executive order of President George H.W. Bush. -
Answer-F
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In 1790, George Washington delivered the first State of
the Union message by having a written report sent to the
Congress in NYC. - Answer-F
The concept of environmental security demands using the
military model of states, conflict and territorial security to
environmental problems. - Answer-F
During the first two speeches of the State of the Union,
President Trump mentioned the word 'security' more than
former president Obama. - Answer-F
Former President George W. Bush officially withdrew the
US participation in the Kyoto Protocol in 2001. - Answer-T
Ronald Reagan signed the Montreal Protocol on
Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer in 1987. -
Answer-T
What is the name of a social theory that argues that
continued modernization is necessary for ecological
sustainability? For example, it says that economic
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globalization contributes to a greening of many global
production and consumption processes by the export of
green practices? - Answer-Ecological Modernization
As a type of energy tax, then President Bill Clinton
proposed this in 1993. It was proposed to levy a broad-
based tax on the energy content of fuels as a means of
promoting energy conservation and addressing climate
change. What is it? - Answer-BTU tax
This is a part of recent news article. "The remaining 11
members of the TPP met in Japan this week, with the New
Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern saying her
government would "to do our utmost to amend the ISDS
provisions of TPP". What do the TPP and ISDS stand for?
Spell them out. - Answer-Trans-Pacific Partnership,
investor-state dispute settlement
Environmental peacemaking integrates natural resource
management in conflict prevention, mitigation, resolution,
and recovery to build resilience in communities. What is
the rationale for the argument of environmental
peacemaking both as a theory and practice that it can
foster the process of peacemaking in conflict regions?
How does it relate to the concept of sustainable
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development? - Answer-The rationale for environmental
peacemaking is that the common dependency of mankind
on natural resources and a healthy environment facilitates
cooperation between societies and nations. Therefore, it
can foster the process of peacemaking in conflict regions.
It also draws upon the three pillars of sustainable
development - economic, socio-cultural and ecological
sustainability.
Vig (2018) wrote how the Reagan presidency was
antienvironmental, compared to the environmental decade
of the 1970s. However, as we discussed last Thursday, his
environmental policies caused unintended consequences
such as membership increase in environmental groups. In
what way did Reagan actually strengthen environmental
forces in the nation? Explain what the Congress did in
response to Reagan's attacks on environmental policy with
specific examples. - Answer-Paradoxically, the backlash
against Reagan strengthened rather than weakened key
environmental statutes, thus reinforcing the policy cycles.
For example, because of the widespread public opposition
to weakening environmental protection, US Congress
passed a series of amendments to existing laws such as
Superfund, the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Clean
Water Act. These laws mandated stricter regulatory
timetables and enforcement. Congress also investigated
NYC Environmental Police Officer exam || Verified
Questions and Correct Answers with EXPLANATIONS
LATEST THIS YEAR.pdf||NEWEST EXAM!!!
In classifying the US Presidents in terms of their influence
on environmental policy, Vig set up six criteria to examine
and evaluate several indicators. Which of the followings is
not included in those six criteria?
a. Political communication
b. Appointments to key positions
c. Priority given to environmental programs in the
president's proposed budgets
d. Legislative success
e. Executive orders and other actions by the president
f. Support for or opposition to international environmental
agreements
g. Environmental agenda - Answer-a
US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created
by executive order of President George H.W. Bush. -
Answer-F
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In 1790, George Washington delivered the first State of
the Union message by having a written report sent to the
Congress in NYC. - Answer-F
The concept of environmental security demands using the
military model of states, conflict and territorial security to
environmental problems. - Answer-F
During the first two speeches of the State of the Union,
President Trump mentioned the word 'security' more than
former president Obama. - Answer-F
Former President George W. Bush officially withdrew the
US participation in the Kyoto Protocol in 2001. - Answer-T
Ronald Reagan signed the Montreal Protocol on
Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer in 1987. -
Answer-T
What is the name of a social theory that argues that
continued modernization is necessary for ecological
sustainability? For example, it says that economic
,3|Page
globalization contributes to a greening of many global
production and consumption processes by the export of
green practices? - Answer-Ecological Modernization
As a type of energy tax, then President Bill Clinton
proposed this in 1993. It was proposed to levy a broad-
based tax on the energy content of fuels as a means of
promoting energy conservation and addressing climate
change. What is it? - Answer-BTU tax
This is a part of recent news article. "The remaining 11
members of the TPP met in Japan this week, with the New
Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern saying her
government would "to do our utmost to amend the ISDS
provisions of TPP". What do the TPP and ISDS stand for?
Spell them out. - Answer-Trans-Pacific Partnership,
investor-state dispute settlement
Environmental peacemaking integrates natural resource
management in conflict prevention, mitigation, resolution,
and recovery to build resilience in communities. What is
the rationale for the argument of environmental
peacemaking both as a theory and practice that it can
foster the process of peacemaking in conflict regions?
How does it relate to the concept of sustainable
, 4|Page
development? - Answer-The rationale for environmental
peacemaking is that the common dependency of mankind
on natural resources and a healthy environment facilitates
cooperation between societies and nations. Therefore, it
can foster the process of peacemaking in conflict regions.
It also draws upon the three pillars of sustainable
development - economic, socio-cultural and ecological
sustainability.
Vig (2018) wrote how the Reagan presidency was
antienvironmental, compared to the environmental decade
of the 1970s. However, as we discussed last Thursday, his
environmental policies caused unintended consequences
such as membership increase in environmental groups. In
what way did Reagan actually strengthen environmental
forces in the nation? Explain what the Congress did in
response to Reagan's attacks on environmental policy with
specific examples. - Answer-Paradoxically, the backlash
against Reagan strengthened rather than weakened key
environmental statutes, thus reinforcing the policy cycles.
For example, because of the widespread public opposition
to weakening environmental protection, US Congress
passed a series of amendments to existing laws such as
Superfund, the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Clean
Water Act. These laws mandated stricter regulatory
timetables and enforcement. Congress also investigated
