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Environmental Law (LE300)

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Welcome to our class

 

Daily News

 

11/29 - ESA helps save fish

11/21 - Does the state have an affirmative duty under the public trust doctrine to protect natural resources?

11/17 - CERCLA and PFAS = trouble?

11/14 - Is your water "safe?" (Where to draw the line on risk)

11/6  - Agriculture, WOTUS, and water pollution

11/3 -  S.Ct. to hear arguments on 11/6 on CWA case

11/1 - Juliana v. US

10/27 - On SIPs mobile source regulations and dirty air in CA

10/24 - Court rules against administration on interstate air pollution

10/19  Court sides against "big milk"

10/17 -  Check out EPCRA's TRI for your area

10/12 - Ca S. Ct. rejects challenge to EIR/EIS (EIR is the CA state equivalent to NEPA's EIS)

10/8 - EPA seeks input on CAA permit 

10/3 - Right to wilderness lawsuit dismissed

9/28 - River gains legal rights as a person 

9/26 - Lucas revisited in MA?

9/22 - Could a carbon tax prove acceptable to the public?

9/14 - Lawsuit against wind farm

9/12 - Union joins lawsuit against hog farm

9/8  - Pork producer liable for nuisance 

9/5 - Don't ban new technologies experiment them carefully

9/2 -  EPA proposes rollback of methane rules

8/29 - Amazon fires burn

8/23 - San Diego failed to measure environmental impacts in allowing weed dispensaries. 

 

Updated Course Schedule

Tentative Schedule this may change based on interest and possible influence by the dark side of the force.

 

Date

Topic

Reading

Assignment

M 8/26

Course introduction; review key concepts from other courses; Who regulates the environment?

News; Syllabus

Show up!

W 8/28

Environmental ethics and economic balancing; unintended consequences

Silent Spring; “Fateful Voice of a Generation Still Drowns

Out Real Science”; “What the World Needs Now is DDT.”

Prepare for class discussion

F 8/30

Root causes of environmental problems

News; Tragedy of the Commons

Prepare to discuss

M 9/2

Labor Day

W 9/4

Tools of the trade: history of environmental protection; basic themes in environmental law; sources of environmental law

Salzman pp. 3-49

Be prepared to discuss questions at the end of each chapter

F 9/6

Tools of the trade: history of environmental protection; basic themes in environmental law; sources of environmental law

News; Salzman pp. 3-49

Be prepared to discuss questions at the end of each chapter

M 9/9

Common law protections: torts, nuisance, trespass, and strict liability

News; Plater pp. 103-152

Brief Boomer v. Atlantic Cement, 257 N.E. 2D 870 (1970)

W 9/11

Common law protections: torts, nuisance, trespass, and strict liability

Plater pp. 103-152

Brief Boomer v. Atlantic Cement, 257 N.E. 2D 870 (1970)

F 9/13

Right to farm laws

News; Trickett v. Ochs, 176 Vt. 89 (2003); Right to farm article (blackboard)

Brief Trickett v. Ochs, 176 Vt. 89 (2003).

M 9/16

Nexis-Uni training

Handout (class exercise #1)

Bring your laptop; Start first mock appellate argument

W 9/18

Practice how to draft and argue persuasive legal arguments

Draft of your class exercise #1 argument

 

F 9/20

Class exercise #1; using common law to enforce environmental rights

 

Mock trial

M 9/23

Environmental Administrative Law: the regulatory toolkit; introduction to agency comments

News; Salzman pp. 51-75; Citizen guide

 

W 9/25

Environmental Administrative Law: the regulatory toolkit; introduction to agency comments

Salzman pp. 51-75; Citizen guide

Agency comment proposal due

F 9/27

Constitutional Issues in environmental law; federalism, private rights

News; Saltzman pp. 75-112

Be prepared to discuss questions at end of chapter; Brief Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal, 505 U.S. 1003 (1992).

M 9/30

Constitutional Issues in environmental law; federalism, private rights

News; Saltzman pp. 75-112

Be prepared to discuss questions at end of chapter; Brief Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal, 505 U.S. 1003 (1992).

W 10/2

Constitutional Issues in environmental law: limitations on courts

Plater pp. 388-428

Brief EITHER US v. SCRAP; Vermont Yankee v. NRDC

F 10/4

Constitutional Issues in environmental law: limitations on courts

News; Plater pp. 388-428

prepare an exam study sheet

M 10/7

Midterm Exam

W 10/9

Yom Kippur

F 10/11

Case study: introduction to statutory tools;

News; Environmental Law Practice reading (on blackboard)

Do the reading and we will do the exercise in class. 

M 10/14

Federal agency disclosure: NEPA and the power of information

News; Saltzman pp. 339-355; Plater 471-522 (for reference only)

Brief Kleppe v. Sierra Club, 427 U.S. 390 (1976).

W 10/16

Possible Guest Speaker on NEPA

TBA

Agency comment outline due

F 10/18

Corporate disclosure: Community right to know; California Prop. 65

News; Plater pp. 528-550

Brief Int. Dairy Foods Assoc. v. Amestoy;  

M 10/21

Corporate disclosure: Community right to know; California Prop. 65

News; Plater pp. 528-550

Brief Int. Dairy Foods Assoc. v. Amestoy;  

W 10/23

Pollution: harm-based standards the Clean Air Act

Salzman pp. 115-142; 42 U.S.C. § 7401 – 7403 [CAA § 101-103]; FYI: Plain English Guide to the Clean Air:

http://www.epa.gov/air/caa/peg/

Find statute 42 U.S.C. § 7401 – 7403 [CAA § 101-103]; Agency comment annotated  bibliography due;

F 10/25

Pollution: harm-based standards the Clean Air Act

News; Salzman pp. 115-142; 42 U.S.C. § 7401 – 7403 [CAA § 101-103]; FYI: Plain English Guide to the Clean Air:

http://www.epa.gov/air/caa/peg/

Find statute 42 U.S.C. § 7401 – 7403 [CAA § 101-103];

M 10/28

Clean Air Act continued

News; Plater pp. 577-591

Brief Union Electric Co. v. EPA or

Cleveland Electric Illuminating v. EPA

W 10/30

Global air pollution

Salzman pp. 143-174;

Brief Massachusetts v. EPA, 549 U.S. 497 (2007);

F 11/1

Global air pollution

News; Juliana v. US, background readings (ComplaintDistrict Court Order)

Watch 9th circuit argument in Juliana v. US

M 11/4

Technology based pollution standards: Clean Water Act

News; Saltzman pp. 175-205

No brief due;

W 11/6

Technology based pollution standards: Clean Water Act

Saltzman pp. 175-205

No brief due;

F 11/8

Prepare for mock appellate argument

News;

Bring in your draft argument

M 11/11

Class exercise # 2; Clean Water Act: Non-point source problems

33 U.S.C. § 1362 (14); The Uncertain Future of Clean Water Act Agricultural Pollution Exemptions... 31 Land & Water L. Rev. 113 (1996).

Prepare for class debate on non-point sources and agriculture; prepare arguments for your side

W 11/13

Guest speaker

TBA

TBA

F 11/15

Pollution: Regulating Toxic Substances where to draw the line?

 

News; Saltzman pp. 207-233

Brief Industrial Union v. American Petroleum Institute, 448 U.S. 607 (1980); Agency comment due

M 11/18

Pollution: Life-Cycle Control Strategies RCRA; Remedial liability CERCLA

News; Saltzman pp. 235-271

Brief Burlington Northern v. U.S., 129 S.Ct. 1870 (2009);

W 11/20

RCRA and CERCLA continued

 

TBA

TBA

F 11/22

Natural resources: Wetlands and the public trust

News; Saltzman pp. 275-293

Brief Illinois Central Railroad v. Illinois, 146 U.S. 387 (1892)

M 11/25

Thanksgiving break

W 11/27

F 11/29

M 12/2

Protecting wildlife: The ESA

News; Saltzman pp. 293-314

brief TVA v. Hill, 437 U.S., 153 (1978);

W 12/4

Creative use of the common law in environmental law

“Protecting Culture and Marine

Ecosystems Under the Law

in Micronesia”

Class discussion over this proposal; optional agency comment rewrite due

F 12/6

Class choice

 

 

F 12/13

1030am

FINAL EXAM

 

 

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