Oil, coal and natural gas are all sources of energy that can run out, whereas solar energy renews itself.

This is an example of someone who would favor a production-oriented philosophy.  In other words, trying to find and exploit additional sources of energy.

(A) increasing the automobile CAFE standard deals with having cars get more miles per gallon and thus saving energy and is incorrect for this question.

Nuclear energy produces 100 million times more energy than carbon and many claim its by-products are less.  It is NOT supported by very many in the population due to the perceived health and safety concerns.

Many environmental protection arguments center around this tradeoff (e.g., protecting the Northern Spotted Owl or the jobs of timber loggers).

The EPA set up a system when they provided a certain number of permits to the major (sulfur oxide) polluters (mostly utilities).  The utilities can produce pollution up to the amount of their permit.  If they produce less, they can sell the permit, trade it, or bank it.  If a utility needs more permits because of the amount of its pollution, then they must buy the permits from somewhere else.  The result of this is that EPA gets the 50% reduction in emissions, but provides some flexibility to the operating plants.
 

Question #8
(B) Love Canal

This was the community that was built (unknowingly) on top of an abandoned hazardous waste dump.  As a result, Congress realized that current legislation did not deal with these sites, so they created Superfund to clean up existing sites.