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CP6261- Environmental Law
Course Description
Presents the legal and institutional framework within which environmental
law is developed and implemented in the U.S., examines the major pollution
control statutes, and reviews international law and conventions to address
transboundary environmental issues.
Lecture Schedule
| Week 1 |
Introduction to legal concepts, courts, and
sources of environmental law |
| Week 2 |
National Environmental Policy Act,
Administrative Procedures Act, and legal precedent |
| Week 3 |
Regulatory process, Executive, Legislative,
and Judicial Oversight |
| Week 4 |
Clean Air Act: Overview, National Ambient
Standards, State Implementation Plans |
| Week 5 |
Clean Air Act: New Source Performance
Standards, Nonattainment, Prevention of Significant Deterioration |
| Week 6 |
Clean Air Act: Air Toxics, Interstate
Pollution, Permits, Mobile Sources, Ozone Depleting Chemicals |
| Week 7 |
Clean Water Act: Point Sources,
Pre-treatment, and stormwater |
| Week 8 |
Clean Water Act: Nonpoint source controls,
wetlands, regulatory takings, and enforcement |
| Week 9 |
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act:
solid waste, underground storage tanks, and hazardous waste management
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| Week 10 |
Comprehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation, and Liability Act: liability, remediation, natural
resource damages, and constitutional limitations on waste management
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| Week 11 |
Preservation of Natural Areas: Federal Land
Management and Policy Act, Endangered Species Act, and the Surface
Mining control and Reclamation Act |
| Week 12 |
Protection of Coastal Waters: Outer
Continental Shelf Lands Act and the Coastal Zone Management Act |
| Week 13 |
International Environmental Law: The
Montreal Protocol on HFCs, ocean dumping, conventions on biodiversity
and hazardous waste disposal |
| Week 14 |
Case Study |
| Week 15 |
Case Study |
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