Environmental Law
Outline and explain the common law actions for
environmental damage and the difficulties in
prevailing in such actions.
• Explain the major substantive provisions of the
National Environmental Policy Act.
• Explain the regulatory scheme of the Clean Air Act.
• Explain the regulation of both point and nonpoint
sources of pollution by the Clean Water Act.
• Explain (1) the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and
Rodenticide Act; (2) the Toxic Substances Control
Act; (3) the Resource Conservation and Recovery
Act; (4) the Superfund; and (5) the various United
Nations Conventions on Climate Change.
