Lecture 25 - Regulating Chemicals in the Environment
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Learning Objectives
- Understand the drivers and processes in environmental
law development.
- Understand a structural summary of how the US Federal
legal system works.
- Understand a structural summary of how laws, regulations
and policies are made.
- Understand the fundamentals of administrative law.
- List the major US environmental laws.
- Explore the key environmental laws interfacing with
issues of concern in environmental toxicology.
- Use a case study to understand the historical
development of air quality regulation in California.
Advance Reading
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EPA:
Laws, Regulations, Guidance and Dockets
Resources
Keywords
- Federalism
- Legislative branch
- Executive branch
- Judicial branch
- Trial court
- Court of appeals
- Rule making
- Adjudication
- Administrative law
- Common law
- Statutory law
- Trial de novo
- Technology standards
- Ambient standards
- Clean Air Act (CAA)
- Clean Water Act (CWA)
- CERCLA, Superfund
- Emergency Planning & Community Right-To-Know Act (EPCRA)
- Endangered Species Act (ESA)
- Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)
- Freedom of Information Act (FIA)
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- National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
- Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)
- Oil Pollution Act of 1990
- Pollution Prevention Act
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
- Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)
- Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA)
- Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)
- Environmental impact statement
- Hazardous waste
- Hazardous substance
- Listed, characteristic waste
- National Priorities List (NPL)
- Superfund
- Air quality standard
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Suggested Reading
- EPA:
CAA,
CWA,
CERCLA,
EPCRA,
ESA,
FIFRA,
OSHA,
OPA,
PPA,
RCRA,
SARA,
SDWA,
TSCA
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