Environmental law: examples and explanations

The new edition of ENVIRONMENTAL LAW will help students to decipher and understand the multitude of issues, statutes, agency regulations, and court decisions that make up environmental law.

• One of the few ancillary texts available in environmental law
• Breaks down the primary topics of environmental and energy law into key concepts and rules, and then it reassembles them into a format that makes them easier to work with
• Grounds students in the technical, legal, scientific, and policy aspects of real-world environmental law practice
• Gives a balanced perspective of both regulators (at all levels of government) and the regulated community
• Offers textual explication of the basic concepts, rules, agencies, and acts in easy-to-understand segments
• The sequence of the chapters follows the order of topics as they appear in most environmental law casebooks
• Currency, which is extremely important in this fast-changing area

New to the Second Edition:

• New chapter that covers the Federal Investigation of Fungicide and Rodenticide Act and the Toxic Substances Control Act (both of these regulate the production of hazardous toxic substances) and the deregulation of energy that has been occurring since 1997
• New chapter on international environmental law, an important growth area in Environmental Law
• Updated Table of Cases, List of Abbreviations used in environmental law, and a Glossary of environmental and legal terms; new tables and graphs
• New material on challenges to EPA authority, deregulation of electric power, recent court decisions in environmental law; natural area and National Park protection