ENVIRONMENTAL LAW SEMINAR SYLLABUS
Spring 2002 - Professor Johnson
Class assignments:
January 28
Introduction: Basic Themes
Read Handout materials
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February 4
Emergency Planning/Community Right to Know
Act;
Pollution Prevention Act; SEPs
Read Handout materials
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February 11
Federal Public Lands: Timber Harvesting,
Mining and
Grazing on Public Lands
Read Handout materials
Watch "Public Lands, Private Profits"(on reserve
in the library) prior to class
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February 18
Clean Air Act: Background re: pollutants
and
structure of the Act
Read Chapters 1,4 of the text; handout materials
AQCR exercise to be completed for next class
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February 25
Clean Air Act: The regulatory process;
Risk-assessment,
cost-benefit analysis
Read Chapter 5 of the text (except supplement
material - Whitman case and notes)
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** HAND IN PAPER TOPICS
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March 4
Clean Air Act: Permits and Performance
Stds;
Emissions Trading
Read pages 328-340 of the text; handout materials
Skim pages 318-328 of the text; Review Chapter
4
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March 11
Ozone depletion, Global warming and International
Pollution Issues
Read pages 391-404 of the text; Read handouts
Skim Chapter 14 of the text
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** HAND IN PAPER OUTLINES
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March 18
Clean Water Act: Wetlands Mitigation Banking
and
Economic Incentives; WatershedEffluent
Trading Programs
Skim WET, Inc. Case study and read all other
handout materials
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April 1
Environmental Justice
Read handout materials
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April 8
Student paper presentations
April 15
Student paper presentations
April 22
Student paper presentations
April 29
Student paper presentations
Meeting Times and Location
Monday 1:10 in Classroom E
Text
SQUILLACE, Environmental Law - Vol. 3 (Air
Pollution): Anderson Publishing (3d ed)
Course
Requirements
1. 20-25 page paper on a
topic of your choice that is related to the issues covered in the seminar.
2. 30-40 minute presentation
of the paper (circulate a draft or synopsis the week prior to presentation).
3. Research exercises.
4. Attendance as per attendance
policy.
Grading
Pass/Fail
Attendance
Policy
Attendance is mandatory. If a student
accumulates more than 3 unexcused absences during the semester,
the student will not pass the course.
Contact
information
Professor Stephen Johnson
Room 311
(478) 301-2192
Johnson_s@mercer.edu