ENVIRONMENT & POLLUTION, Fall 2003, version 1.0

 

                                                            2 September 2003

 

Date                Pages              Topic;  main cases

 

-WEEK 1--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

            Chapter II - Origins of Modern Pollution Laws

 

8/20                 214-234           Common Law, Early History of Regulation   

 

-WEEK 2--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

          Chapter III – Clean Water Act

 

8/25                 234-254           continued

 

8/27                 255-268           National Effluent Limitations:  Du Pont

 

-WEEK 3--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

9/1                   Labor Day Holiday, no class

 

9/3                   268-292           Technological Feasibility:  BPT, BCT:

                                                CMA, Amer. Paper Inst.

 

9/5 (Friday)     292-314           Technological Feasibility - BAT, Pretreatment, NSPS:         

                                                CMA, NRDC (NPDES Permit Regs)

 

-WEEK 4--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

9/8                   314-332           Variances, Excursions:  CMA (FDF),:

                                                Amer. Petr. Inst., NRDC (Upsets)

 

9/10                 332-335           Water Quality Standards

                        342-352           Conflict between WQS and Tech. Standards:  U.S. Steel

 

-WEEK 5--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

9/15                 352-375           Permit System I:  NRDC (Point Sources)

 

9/17                 360-375           Permit System II: NRDC (NPDES Permit Regs)

 


-WEEK 6--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

            Chapter IV - Clean Air Act

 

9/22                 376-391           National Ambient Air Quality Standards:  Kennecott

 

9/24                 391-411           NAAQS, continued:  Lead Industries, NRDC

 

-WEEK 7--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

9/29                 417-432           Legislative History, SIPs, Technology, Economics: Union Electric

 

10/1                 432-458           SIPs, Rules, Promulgation, Modeling:  Texas

 

-WEEK 8-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

10/6                 468#7-477       Non-Standards, Dispersion:  Kennecott

 

 

10/8                 477-494           NSPS, Bubble, Statutory Interpretation: Portland Cement,

                                                National Lime, Chevron

 

                        Chapter V - Toxic Substances

 

10/10 (Friday) 595-616           Introduction to Toxicology and Regulation: Ethyl

                        632-642          

 

-WEEK 9--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

10/13               642-659           Uncertainty and Risk of Harm:, Benzene

 

10/15               670-686           Regulation of Toxics - FIFRA:  EDF (Aldrin)

 

-WEEK 10------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

10/20               686-707           Regulation of Toxics - C.W.A., C.A.A.:  EDF (PCBs),         

                                                NRDC (Vinyl Chloride)

 

10/22               670-686           Regulation of Toxics - FIFRA:  EDF (Aldrin)

 

-WEEK 11------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

10/27, 10/29    Possible trip to Geneva (or possible following week to Shanghai)

 


-WEEK 12------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

                        Chapter VI - Judicial Review and Enforcement

 

11/3                 783-797           Judicial Review & Bureaucracy-Forcing:  Illinois

 

11/5                 797-815           Bureaucracy-Stimulating:  Sierra Club (Strip Mines)

 

-WEEK 13------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

11/10               815-825           Enforcement - Orders & Penalties:  Duquesne

                        835-848           Criminal Sanctions:  Hayes

                                               

11/12               867-879           Citizen Suits:  Gwaltney

                        Supp. mat.       Steel Company; Laidlaw

                        881-886           Forcing to Enforce?:  Atlantic Terminal

 

-WEEK 14------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

11/17               Probable trip to Washington, D.C.  

 

11/19               Supp. mat.

 

-WEEK 15------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

11/24               Supp. mat.

 

11/26               Supp mat.

 

11/27               Thanksgiving Day

 

-WEEK 16------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

12/1                 Review

 

12/3                 Review, Last Day

           

 

 

Prof. John E. Bonine, jebonine@law.uoregon.edu