Environmental Law: Examples and Explanations
- ISBN-10
- 0735520305
- ISBN-13
- 9780735520301
- Series
- Environmental Law
- Category
- Law / Environmental
- Pages
- 615
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- Aspen Law & Business
- Author
- Steven Ferrey
Description
This unique study guide--one of the few available in the field--continues to help students decipher and understand the multitude of issues, statutes, agency regulations, and court decisions that make up environmental law. This accessible study guide:
- breaks down the primary topics of environmental and energy law into key concepts and rules, and then reassembles them into a user-friendly format
- grounds the student in the technical, legal, scientific, and policy aspects of real-world environmental law practice
- covers 18 areas of environmental law in 15 separate yet integrated and cross-referenced chapters
- 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
- follows the order of topics as they appear in most environmental law casebooksThe Second Edition includes:
- challenges to EPA authority; deregulation of electric power; recent court decisions in environmental law; protection of natural areas and national parks
- a chapter covering the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act and the Toxic Substances Control Act--both of which regulate the production of hazardous toxic substances--and energy deregulation since 1997
- a chapter on international environmental law, an important growth area in the field
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- 2008
- 1137 pages
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- 2004-08-24
- 1017 pages
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- 2023-08-14
- 1436 pages
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