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Practicing Environmental Law
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Practicing Environmental Law brings the provocative challenges of environmental law practice into the classroom. The book covers the traditional subject matter of an environmental law course, but with an innovative practice-based approach. Each chapter is organized around a series of case study-style problems, which require students to address an environmental problem relying on a range of supporting materials. As students work through the book, they will develop an environmental justice advocacy strategy, decide whether to bring novel Clean Air Act litigation to address climate change, consider whether fireworks displays are point sources of water pollution, assess whether the Army Corps of Engineers must prepare an environmental impact statement for a new utility line, negotiate an enforcement settlement, and negotiate the contents of a landscape-scale habitat conservation plan—among many other exercises. In tackling these problems, students will review and use affidavits, administrative orders and guidance documents, biological opinions, white papers, letters, and other document types, in addition to many statutory and regulatory excerpts and court cases. In short, they will simulate the work that environmental attorneys actually do in practice. The casebook and the accompanying online self-assessment questions written by the authors teach the basics of environmental law and also help students gain deeper understanding of, and heightened enthusiasm for, a crucially important legal field.
The new second edition of Practicing Environmental Law adds a short chapter on toxics regulation, updates the materials throughout the book to reflect recent legal developments, adds a new problem on using common law claims to address climate change, and streamlines and refines many of the existing problems.
Imprint: Foundation Press
Series: University Casebook Series
Publication Date: 05/25/2021
Related Subject(s): Administrative Law
Todd Aagaard, Villanova University School of Law
Dave Owen, UC College of the Law, San Francisco
Justin Pidot, University of Arizona College of Law
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Commonwealth Pharma Services Documents (Clean Water Act-NPDES)
NPCA's Video - 3D Model of the James River
Environmental Impact Studies
The Cape Wind Energy Project FEIS
The Cape Wind Energy Project FEIS addresses a proposed wind energy farm off the coast of Massachusetts. The proposed project was huge, novel, and controversial. The EIS also is large, even by EIS standards, and you should view this EIS as an example of a particularly large and ambitious document.
We have included the final EIS itself and two of the many appendices. One appendix addresses interagency correspondence and consultation and the other addresses public comments.
The Bear River Narrows DEIS and FEIS
The Bear River Narrows DEIS and FEIS provide an example of a smaller-scale EIS. They also are an example of something uncommon: an EIS that recommends against proceeding with the project. The DEIS and FEIS address a proposed new hydroelectric dam in Idaho. Based partly on this analysis, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission denied a license for the project.
The Proposed Range 71 Desert Operations Area Expansion
The Proposed Range 71 Desert Operations Area Expansion document is an EA/FONSI, not an EIS. While the document is much shorter than the Cape Wind FEIS, it still is over ninety pages long (some EAs are much longer), and it illustrates the reality that even EAs often take time and effort to prepare.
The last documents in our set pertain to categorical exclusions. The first is a rule, issued by the Forest Service, that finds that certain environmental restoration and rehabilitation projects are eligible for categorical exclusions. The second is a finding by the Bonneville Power Administration, a federal agency, that a particular project is eligible for a categorical exclusion.
Sample Note Taking Documents
Standing Problem – Sample Note-Taking Document
Introductory Administrative Law Problem – Sample Note-Taking Document
Supplemental Instructions – Chesapeake Bay TMDL Negotiation
Pennsylvania Farm Bureau Instructions
PA Chamber of Commerce Instructions
Supplemental Instructions – Northern Rockies HCP Negotiation
Northern Rockies Environmental Foundation Instructions
The new second edition of Practicing Environmental Law adds a short chapter on toxics regulation, updates the materials throughout the book to reflect recent legal developments, adds a new problem on using common law claims to address climate change, and streamlines and refines many of the existing problems.
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