Environmental Politics and Law
Yale, , Prof. John Wargo
Updated On 02 Feb, 19
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 discusses developments in air quality monitoring and regulation in the United States, with an emphasis on regulating vehicle emissions. Monitoring takes place at fixed points with results being averaged over three years, and this data informs air quality standard setting. Studies have found that this form of monitoring underreports the amount of pollution that children and other susceptible populations (i.e. bus and truck drivers) are exposed to. Professor Wargo details ways in which individuals are exposed to heightened air pollution on a daily basis and the policy responses at the federal, state, and local levels.
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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.