Author Question: As you watch the demolition of an old office building, you see truck after truck hauling away large ... (Read 72 times)

cnetterville · **on:** Jul 16, 2018

As you watch the demolition of an old office building, you see truck after truck hauling away large chunks of concrete, steel, and other building materials.

Then you start to wonder, where are they taking all of this material and will it be safe? A friend comments to you that it's fine, the federal government has people to make sure they do this properly. You start to wonder, and then you recall that the disposal of nonhazardous industrial waste is controlled by A) the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
B) the U.S. Department of Commerce.
C) the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
D) states and local government, not the federal government.

Question 2

If the Millennium Development goal to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger by 2015 has been achieved, then

A) the number of people living in extreme poverty has been reduced by 50.
B) no continent has more than 10,000 people still hungry.
C) global fertility rates have declined to those of most European nations.
D) the rural population of the world has nearly tripled.