"The collection of laws, regulations, agreements and common law that governs how humans interact with their environment."
Regulatory laws are designed to limit the amount of pollution, waste, or other hazards released into the environment by individuals or organizations. These laws set standards, establish permitting processes, and provide enforcement mechanisms to ensure compliance.
Introduction to Environmental Law: Understanding the scope and purpose of environmental law, its evolution, and sources.
Principles of Environmental Law: A comprehensive understanding of the principles of regulations, including precautionary principle, polluter pays, and intergenerational equity.
Air Quality and Pollution Control: Thorough comprehension of the sources of air pollution, air quality regulations, and the implementation of control technologies.
Water Quality and Pollution Control: Understanding the contaminants and sources of water pollution, federal regulations such as the Clean Water Act and others, and the role of treatment methods and compliance strategies.
Hazardous Waste Management: Understanding the different types of hazardous waste, regulatory management, and control requirements.
Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA): Understanding the EIA process, analysis of potential impacts of new developments, and implementation of mitigation strategies.
Climate Change and Carbon Management: Comprehensive coverage of mitigation strategies, emissions trading systems, adaptation options, and modeling techniques for assessing future impacts of climate change.
Wildlife and Biodiversity Protection: Understanding the different levels of protection for wildlife species at the federal, state, and local level and the use of conservation strategies to ensure biodiversity.
Environmental Enforcement and Compliance: Understanding the enforcement responsibilities of federal and state agencies, regulations applicable to different industrial sectors, and compliance strategies.
Environmental Litigation: Understanding the role of the court system and the modes of litigation that can lead to resolution.
Sustainability and Green Initiatives: Learning the various policy initiatives and sustainability measures, including carbon reduction goals, energy efficiency, and certification systems like LEED.
Global Environmental Law and Governance: Understanding international environmental regulation, treaties, and global initiatives.
Environmental Ethics: Understanding different philosophical frameworks such as anthropocentrism, biocentrism, or eco-centrism, and developing critical thinking and moral reasoning.
Policy-making and Environmental advocacy: Understanding the role of policy-making in environmental regulation, and the need for an active civil society and advocacy campaigns that work towards environmental justice.
Applied Eco-centric Research: Developing research competencies by analyzing practical problems and identifying the environmental solutions in different fields including research analysis of environmental policies and emissions.
Clean Air Act: This law regulates the quality of air by setting standards for air pollutants from both stationary and mobile sources.
Clean Water Act: This law regulates the quality of water by setting standards for pollutants discharged into waterways from industrial, commercial and municipal sources.
Endangered Species Act: This law provides for the conservation of endangered and threatened species and their habitats.
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act: This law regulates the management of hazardous and non-hazardous waste from generation to disposal.
National Environmental Policy Act: This law requires federal agencies to assess and consider the environmental impact of their actions before making decisions.
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Superfund): This law provides for the cleanup of hazardous waste sites and assigns liability for the costs of cleanup to responsible parties.
Toxic Substances Control Act: This law regulates the manufacture, importation, processing, distribution, and use of chemicals to protect both human health and the environment.
Occupational Safety and Health Act: This law regulates workplace safety and health to protect workers from health and safety hazards.
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act: This law regulates the use and distribution of pesticides to protect human health and the environment.
Marine Mammal Protection Act: This law provides for the protection and conservation of marine mammals, including whales, dolphins, and seals.
"Environmental regulations; laws governing management of natural resources, such as forests, minerals, or fisheries; and related topics such as environmental impact assessments."
"To protect the environment and living things (including human beings) from the harm caused by human activity."
"Forests, minerals, or fisheries."
"To assess the potential environmental impacts of certain activities or projects."
"Living things (human beings inclusive) from the harm that human activity may immediately or eventually cause to them or their species."
"By preventing harm to the media (such as air, water, or land) that living things rely on for survival."
"Laws, regulations, agreements, and common law."
"Governing how humans interact with their environment."
"To establish rules and standards for protecting the environment."
"Human activity may immediately or eventually cause harm to living things and their species."
"To protect living things and their habitats."
"By imposing laws and regulations governing the management of forests, minerals, fisheries, etc."
"To mitigate the negative impact of human activities on the environment."
"To evaluate and address the potential environmental consequences of certain actions or projects."
"Common law is one of the sources governing how humans interact with the environment."
"By ensuring the protection and sustainable use of natural resources."
"By protecting living things and their species from harm caused by human activity."
"To establish international cooperation and standards for addressing environmental issues."
"To maintain a healthy environment that supports the well-being of all living things, including humans."