As the Obama administration and the courts change the course of federal environmental law and policy, this best-selling casebook has been updated comprehensively to include the latest legal and policy developments. Each chapter includes new material exploring contemporary developments including the challenges climate change is posing to nearly every aspect of environmental law. The revised Sixth Edition includes: <ul>
<li> 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 </li> <li> 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 </li> <li> "Midnight Regulations" by the Bush administration and the Obama administration's response </li> <li> New emphasis on Environmental Standing, including the Supreme Court's Massachusetts v. EPA and Summers v. Earth Island Institute decisions </li> <li> The new approach to CERCLA "arranger" liability and apportionment embodied in the Supreme Court's Burlington Northern decision </li> <li> 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 </li> <li> 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 </li> <li> The relationship between the Clean Water Act's §404 and §402 permit programs , including the Supreme Court's June 22, 2009 Coeur Alaska decision </li> <li> 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 </li> <li> Remedies for Claims of NEPA Violations, including the Supreme Court's Winter v. NRDC decision </li> <li> 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" </li> <li> 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 </li> </ul>

Environmental Regulation: Law, Science, and Policy, Sixth Edition

Robert V. Percival

Christopher H. Schroeder

Alan S. Miller

James P. Leape

Environmental & Natural Resources Law

Wolters Kluwer Law & Business

When you purchase a new version of this casebook from the LIFT Program, you receive 1-year FREE digital access to the corresponding Examples &amp; Explanations in your course area. Now available in an interactive study center, Examples &amp; Explanations offer hypothetical questions complemented by detailed explanations that allow you to test your knowledge of the topics covered in class. Starting July 1, 2017, if your new casebook purchase does not come with an access code on the inside cover of the book, please contact Wolters Kluwer customer service. The email address and phone number for customer service are on the copyright page, found within the first few pages, of your casebook. Environmental Regulation: Law, Science, and Policy delivers unparalleled coverage of policy that focuses on the substance of environmental statutes, how they are translated into regulations, and the factors that affect real-world behavior. Self-contained chapters, written in a style accessible to the non-specialist, afford instructors flexibility in organizing courses. Effective teaching and study aids include charts and diagrams mapping the structure of each environmental statute, real-world-based problems and questions, “pathfinders” explaining where to find crucial source materials for every major topic, an extensive glossary, and a list of acronyms. The accompanying Website is kept current with annual statutory and case supplements. The Seventh Edition is a massive revision, updating the most significant new developments in environmental law. New problem exercises show students how to apply the law to emerging environmental concerns. Important Supreme Court decisions such as American Electric Power, Sackett v. EPA, PPL Montana, Stop the Beach and Southern Union are explored as well as oil spill liability in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon spill, liability litigation, and the Gulf Coast Claims Facility. The Seventh Edition looks at state renewable energy initiatives, the dormant commerce clause, and the impact of burgeoning natural gas supplies on energy policy. Included is coverage on efforts to control the effects of hydraulic fracturing and why “fracking” is exempt from the Safe Drinking Water Act. The EPA’s regulation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under the Clean Air Act as well as California’s statewide GHG cap-and-trade program are discussed. The Seventh Edition explores how climate change is affecting environmental law, especially global environmental law in the aftermath of the June 2012 Rio+20 earth summit. Features <ul>
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comprehensive coverage in a style accessible to the non-specialist</li> <li>
self-contained chapters for flexibility in organizing courses.</li> <li>a detailed examination of policy <ul>
<li>focus on environmental statutes</li> <li>how statutes translate into regulations</li> <li>factors that affect real-world behavior</li> </ul>
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<li>charts and diagrams mapping the structure of each environmental statute</li> <li>real-world-based problems and questions</li> <li>“pathfinders” explaining where to find crucial source materials for every major subject area</li> <li>extensive glossary</li> <li>list of acronyms</li> </ul>
</li> <li>detailed suggestions for teaching in an extensive Teacher’s Manual
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Environmental Regulation: Law, Science, and Policy (Aspen Casebook)

Legal Education

Wolters Kluwer

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Environmental Regulation: Law, Science, and Policy, Eighth Edition by Robert V. Percival, Christopher H. Schroeder, Alan S. Miller, and James P. Leape, provides comprehensive and easy-to-understand coverage of the entire field of environmental law. It focuses not only on the substance of the environmental statutes, but also on the policies they seek to implement, how they are translated into regulations, and the factors that influence how they affect real-world behavior. Key Features: <ul>
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Environmental Regulation: Law, Science, and Policy demystifies the complexity of environmental law. It provides up-to-date, comprehensive and accessible coverage of this rapidly changing field. After exploring the causes of environmental problems and the moral values they implicate, the casebook provides a structural overview of the regulatory system. It considers how environmental law seeks to protect public health and the environment from climate change, toxic chemicals, hazardous wastes, and air and water pollution. This casebook covers land use regulation, protection of biodiversity, environmental impact assessment, environmental enforcement, and international environmental law. Written in a style accessible to the non-specialist, this casebook affords instructors flexibility in organizing courses. Effective teaching and study aids include outlines of the structure of each environmental statute, real-world-based problems and questions, “pathfinders” explaining where to find crucial source materials for every major topic, an extensive glossary, and a list of acronyms. The accompanying Website is kept current with annual statutory and case supplements. 
New to the 9th Edition: \nThe most comprehensive updating and editing of this classic casebook since the first edition helped define the field nearly thirty years ago, including:\nBiden administration reversals of Trump changes to federal environmental policy 
How efforts to combat the climate crisis are affecting all areas of environmental law 
New material on environmental justice throughout the casebook 
The impact of the global pandemic on environmental law and policy 
New material on the social cost of carbon, PFAS and chemical testing, the Navigable Waters Protection Rule, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, environmental enforcement, and private environmental governance 
Excerpts from important new court decisions including:\nCounty of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund (groundwater and the Clean Water Act) 
ARCO v. Christian (the impact of CERCLA on state remedies for environmental contamination) 
Weyerhaeuser v. US Fish & Wildlife Service (critical habitat for endangered species) 
American Lung Ass’n v. EPA (DC Circuit’s 2021 decision invalidating the Trump administration’s Affordable Clean Energy regulations for greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act) 
Juliana v. US (9th Circuit decision dismissing claims that the federal government violated constitutional environmental rights by promoting fossil fuels) 
McKiver v. Murphy-Brown (4th Circuit decision on private nuisance, CAFOS and environmental justice) 
Jam v. International Finance Corporation (immunity of international development bank for financing coal-fired power plant in India)\nNew and improved problem exercises

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