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What can are the two things a Federal Regulation can do?
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Set a Floor, or a Ceiling
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What is a Floor?
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The minimum standard
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What is a Ceiling?
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The maximum standard
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What are examples of state environmental protection, organizations?
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Department of Quality
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Fisheries
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What are examples of Federal Environmental laws?
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Clean Air Act
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Clean Water Act
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Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
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Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
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What does RCRA stand for?
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Definition
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
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What does CERCLA stand for?
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Definition
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
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What does NAAQS stand for?
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Definition
National Ambient Air Quality Standards
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Term
Why did the Clean Air Act, begin to police mobile sources of air pollution?
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Definition
Lead Gasoline, acting as a problem
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Term
What is a super fund site?
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Any land in the United States that has been contaminated by hazardous waste and identified by the EPA as a candidate for cleanup because it poses a risk to human health and/or the environment.
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What is an example of a super fund site?
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What agency identifies an area hazardous, and worthy of clean-up?
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The Environmental Protection Agency
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Who is the Environmental Protection Agency After?
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Definition
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Term
What is a security?
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Definition
An interest that produces unearned income
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What do Securities Acts do?
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Definition
Provide Transparency on Securities
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Term
What is a Prospectus?
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Transparent Financial Document of the past,present, and future.
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Lying on an affidavit is equivalent to what?
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Committing perjury
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Term
What is the principle anti-fraud rule, essentially all anti-fraud rules?
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Rule 10b-5
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Term
Who does Rule 10b-5 apply to?
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Definition
Private Securities
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Term
What can determine whether or not you are a sophisticated investor?
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Definition
The basis of your education, or the number of your assets.
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Term
What do Anti-Trust Laws forbid/prevent?
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Definition
Restraining Competitors and Injuring Competitors in ways outside of competition
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Term
What is a Tying Agreement?
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Definition
Agreement between a seller and a buyer under which the seller agrees to sell a product or service (the tying product) to the buyer only on the condition that the buyer also purchases a different (or tied) product from the seller or the buyer agrees not to purchase the tied product from any other buyer.
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What is Vertical Integration?
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Definition
Purchasing all your competition, to form a monopoly
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Term
What is the purpose of the Clayton Act?
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Definition
To remove Cartels, and price fixing
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Term
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A collusion based on price fixing
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What does the Sherman Act prevent?
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Monopolizing or Restricting Trade
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