Environmental Regulation Law, Science, and Policy

This comprehensive yet highly accessible casebook earned its loyal following by exploring and explaining both environmental regulations And The policy also represents a wide range of new material to reflect significant developments in the area. the casebook provides a smooth introduction To The complex web of environmental law: The detailed policy examination focuses not only on the substance of environmental statutes, but also on how they are translated into regulations and how they influence real-world behavior the clear text is written with the non-specialist in mind Environmental Regulation: Law, Science, and Policy, has been scrupulously updated to reflect the many significant changes in the law between editions: significant new Supreme Court cases, including Whitman v. American Trucking Association, Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. United States Army Corps of Engineers, Palazollo v. Rhode Island, and Sierra-Tahoe Preservation Council v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency the first use of the Congressional Review Act to veto agency regulations, The Bush Administration's use of regulatory review, An update on the effects of the Oil Pollution Act in preventing oil spills, and trends in judicial review of agency action significant changes of Superfund liability resulting from the Superfund Recycling Equity act And The Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act the latest developments in EPA's long-running saga concerning the definition of solid waste new problem exercises on the risks of transporting and storing high-level nuclear waste in a central repository in Yucca Mountain, Nevada; on the controversy over regulation of arsenic in drinking water; and on establishing total maximum daily loadings to control non-point source pollutionPercival, Robert V. is the author of 'Environmental Regulation Law, Science, and Policy', published 2003 under ISBN 9780735536562 and ISBN 0735536562.