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Superfund refers to a federal program that was set up in 1980 to clean up toxic waste sites.

Disease caused by industrial pollution is far more significant than disease caused by older,non-industrial forms of pollution.

One disability-adjusted life year (DALY)equals one lost year of healthy life.

The ecosystem is home to multiple biospheres.

Nonpolluting economic growth that raises standards of living without depleting the planet's resources of the earth is called sustainable development.

According to the theory of dualism,humans and nature are one.

According to the theory of land ethic,humans are part of an ethical community that includes not only other human beings but all elements of the natural environment.

When Congress passes an environmental law,Environmental Protection Agency employees write the detailed,specific rules needed to make it work.

The largest source of carbon monoxide is electric utilities burning coal and oil.

Gases that evaporate from liquid or solid carbon-based compounds are known as condensibles.

Hazardous air pollutants are chemical emissions that pose a health risk of serious illness such as cancer or birth defects with small inhalation exposures.

The maximum achievable control technology is a performance standard used by the Environmental Protection Agency to control emissions of hazardous air pollutants.

Acid rain is caused primarily by two air pollutants,carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide.

Indoor air in developed nations contains a mixture of pollutants including combustion by-products from cooking such as carbon monoxide and asbestos.

Radon is an inert,colorless,and odorless gas found in soil and rock formations.

Ozone-depleting gases such as chlorofluorocarbons are tiny,tough molecules that defy natural breakdown processes.

The United States is not a party to the Kyoto Protocol.

The Clean Water Act is effective in eliminating polluted factory outflows.

The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 gave EPA the authority to manage hazardous waste from the moment it is created to the moment it is finally destroyed.

The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ensures that the thousands of abandoned toxic waste sites around the United States are cleaned up.