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Round 9: Tossup 9

A former employee of this government agency, Brent Efron, compared this agency’s work to “throwing gold bars off the edge” on a Tinder date in a clip since used to justify investigations of it. (-5[1])A 1980s ruling supporting this government agency, then led by (-5[1])Anne Gorsuch, created deference to federal experts in interpreting unclear laws, but was overturned in 2024. This government agency plans to rescind a 2009 “endangerment finding” as part of what Lee Zeldin has called the US’s “greatest day of deregulation,” including changing NAAQS regulations on PM 2.5. For 10 (10[1])points, (-5[1])what (10[1])Nixon-era (10[2])government agency is responsible for enforcing laws like the Clean Air Act? ■END■ (10[5])

ANSWER: Environmental Protection Agency [or EPA]
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentPositionValue
Stephen OttewellToronto BToronto A33-5
Dawson TeuWaterloo AMcMaster A43-5
James FanToronto EToronto G9210
Aidan HoffnerMcMaster BWaterloo B93-5
Imtiaz KidwaiToronto FToronto I9410
Nathaniel GodfreyToronto DToronto C9510
Sicheng JiangToronto HQueen's A9510
Elena ThaiWaterloo CGuelph A10810
Seth AllenMcMaster AWaterloo A10810
Cranmer McGinnMcMaster CBrock A10810
James XiaoToronto AToronto B10810
Aleksa MisicWaterloo BMcMaster B10810

Summary

TournamentEditionTUHConv. %Neg %Average Buzz
Northern CaliforniaUS1100%0%77.00
Southern CaliforniaUS7100%43%88.71
Eastern Canada (1)US5100%20%90.40
Eastern Canada (2)US9100%33%101.78
FloridaUS1100%0%59.00
Great LakesUS12100%0%59.33
Lower Mid-AtlanticUS9100%22%88.00
Upper Mid-AtlanticUS1292%8%72.18
MidwestUS9100%0%71.56
NorthUS1100%0%48.00
NortheastUS12100%25%77.42
PacificUS9100%0%79.56
South CentralUS4100%0%77.25
SoutheastUS13100%15%85.15
Upstate NYUS5100%0%72.00