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