This course introduces environmental law, policy, and politics within the United States. Topics include: environmental regulatory structure (the role of agencies, Congress, the executive, and the courts); environmental law, from its beginnings in the common law, the environmental movement in the 1970s, to the present; federal environmental statutes (including the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (the “Superfund Program”), Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, and National Environmental Policy Act; civil and criminal enforcement; the roles of citizens, lobbyists, and conservationists.
Students who completed PLAW 380: Environmental Law and Policy in the United States in Fall 2022 are not eligible to enroll in this class.
Prerequisite: Students must have completed 24 credits at Rhodes.