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Why was the federal Clean Water Act of 1960 insufficient as a response to water pollution in California?
 
  a. As a federal law, it applied only to federally-funded water projects.
  b. It encouraged states to adopt more stringent sewage treatment standards but California faced a big problem from chemical contamination that could not be removed by typical water-processing methods.
  c. Rachel Carson's popular book Silent Spring argued against water-pollution laws.
  d. The technology did not then exist to monitor chemicals in water.

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In order to lessen the state's dependence on imported sources of energy, all of the following sources for generating electricity were developed in the 1950s and 1960s except
 
  a. geothermal.
  b. wind.
  c. nuclear.
  d. hydroelectricity.


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Qarqy

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Reply #1 on: Jul 4, 2018
Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

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