SignUpEnvironmental Politics and Law
Yale, , Prof. John Wargo
Updated On 02 Feb, 19
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Yale, , Prof. John Wargo
Updated On 02 Feb, 19
Introduction to the Course - Principles & Strategies in Environmental Law - Nuclear Experiments - Nuclear Secrecy and Ecology - Preparing for War: NEPA - Marine Food-Chains: Mercury - Site Restoration Law - Chemically Dependent Agriculture - Risk and Law: Pesticide Paradigm - Safety Claims and Free Speech: Preemption and Defamation - Air Quality Law: Margins of Safety - Vehicle Emissions and Public Transit - The Quiet Revolution in Plastics - The Tobacco Paradigm - Evolution of Tobacco Law - Land Use and Conservation Law: The Adirondack History - Property Rights and Public Lands Management - Land Use Law and Property Rights
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Environmental Politics and Law (EVST 255)
The lecture describes the Clean Air Act and the way the federal government measures air quality as well as improvements in air quality. Professor Wargo reviews challenges in regulating air quality, reasons for lack of adequate enforcement, and approaches to setting ambient air quality standards. The lecture focuses predominantly on vehicle emissions, and the difficulty that regulators face when trying to decrease particulate matter expelled by cars. The public health impacts of poor air quality, particularly in urban areas, are discussed as well.
Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website httpopen.yale.educourses
This course was recorded in Spring 2010.
Sam
Sep 12, 2018
Excellent course helped me understand topic that i couldn't while attendinfg my college.
Dembe
March 29, 2019
Great course. Thank you very much.
