Botkin and Keller Chapter 24 Reading Guide
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APES Chapter 24 Study Guide 1. What state is the Love Canal located? 2. Name the company that was responsible for dumping toxic and cancer-causing wastes into an old canal excavation called the Love Canal. 3. After Love Canal was abandoned, what was it sold and used for? 4. The Love Canal illustrates which of the following? ? that preventing pollution is safer and cheaper than cleaning it up ? that political officials are alert and sympathetic to their constituents ? that pollutants can be stored safely underground for a long time ? that polluting companies can escape from the costs and responsibility of their actions 5. The U.S. is about 5% of the world?s population and produces about what % of the world?s solid waste?
