Environmental Regulation: Law, Science, and Policy

The revised Sixth Edition includes:

• Ten New Case Excerpts, including new decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court on CERCLA, the Clean Air Act, NEPA, environmental standing and the Clean Water Act
• Four New Problem Exercises, including exercises on cap-and-trade versus a carbon tax, the application of NEPA to climate change, who should be prosecuted for criminal violations, and negotiation of a post-Kyoto regime to control greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
• Midnight Regulations by the Bush administration and the Obama administration's response
• New emphasis on Environmental Standing , including the Supreme Court's Massachusetts v. EPA and Summers v. Earth Island Institute decisions
• The new approach to CERCLA arranger liability and apportionment embodied in the Supreme Court's Burlington Northern decision
• EPA's new definition of solid waste and judicial decisions altering the agency's new source review program and programs for controlling interstate air pollution and hazardous air pollutants
• EPA's Clean Air Act Endangerment Finding for Emissions of GHGs, reversal of the California waiver denial, and California's controls on GHG emissions from mobile sources
• The relationship between the Clean Water Act's 404 and 402 permit programs , including the Supreme Court's June 22, 2009 Coeur Alaska decision
• Climate Change and NEPA, including the 9th Circuit's Center for Biological Diversity v. NHTSA decision on the environmental impact of national fuel economy standards
• Remedies for Claims of NEPA , including the Supreme Court's Winter v. NRDC decision
• Climate change and the Endangered Species Act, including the impact of the polar bear listing on agency consultation under 7 and 9's prohibition of takes
• The latest scientific evidence concerning global warming and climate change, as well as material on the development of carbon trading markets, adaptation strategies, and carbon disclosure