Environmental Quality Rating

Part Two:

Environmental Improvement

Things can and are being done about environmental problems. If your community is doing something about its problems it is becoming a better place to live. Community efforts of the type that improved it may soon be important to all of us. To determine an environmental rating, answer each of the questions in the following list. For each YES, credit your community with the number of points indicated.

1 . In the past three years has your community or state passed any laws designed to reduce air pollution? (1 point)

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2. Has there been any measurable improvement in the air in your community over the past year? (3 points)

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3. Has your community or state passed a law pertaining to water pollution in the last three years? (1 point)

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4. Has there been any measurable improvement in the water in the past three years? (3 points)

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5. Has your community or state passed a law pertaining to soil pollution in the last three years? (1 point)

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6. Has there been measurable improvement in the soil in the past year (3 points)

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7. Have there been campaigns to encourage people to stop littering in the streets and parks? (1 point)

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8. Have there been clean-up campaigns? (1 point)

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9. Have there been community attempts to improve the appearance of parks, playgrounds, and beaches in other ways? (1 point)

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10. Are aluminum cans, paper, or scrap metal collected so they can be used again? (1 point)

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11. Do people try to help reduce air pollution by driving cars only when necessary? (1 point)

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Add up the points you have given your community for its effort to reduce and prevent pollution.

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RATING SCALE: 0-7 POOR, 8-10 AVERAGE, 11-13 GOOD,

14-17 EXCELLENT