Environmental Protection : Law and Policy

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Environmental Protection: Law and Policy welcomes Daniel Bodansky , a leading expert on global climate change and international law, as its distinguished new co-author. Completely updated and revised, the Sixth Edition offers a new chapter covering climate change and a substantially revised chapter on international environmental law.

Environmental Protection: Law and Policy, now in its Sixth Edition, features :

• a complete introduction to the history of environmental protection, laws and regulations, regulatory design strategies, and policy objectives
• analysis of constitutional federalism and related policy questions concerning the design and implementation of environmental protection programs
• an international and interdisciplinary approach that incorporates science, economics, and ethics
• coverage of the major federal pollution control laws—the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, CERCLA, and more
• two chapters on natural resource management issues, focusing on the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act, but also including national forest management
• landmark and cutting-edge cases with explanatory text, notes and questions
• charts and graphics, plus numerous exercises and problems.
• Author website, Teacher’s Manual, and annual summer Professor’s Updates

Completely updated, the Sixth Edition includes:

• a new chapter on climate change that covers important scientific, policy, and program design questions
• coverage of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill and its implications for environmental assessment, common law liability, remediation of oil spills, and imposition of liability under the Oil Pollution Act
• a new section providing comparative analysis of remediation of chemical and oil spills under CERCLA, RCRA, and the Oil Pollution Act
• substantial revision of the chapter on international environmental law
• recent developments in preemption law
• important cases decided by the Supreme Court and the federal Courts of Appeals since the publication of the last edition
• new problems and streamlined text and note materials