1. What is Environmental Law?
2. The Role of Values
3. Common Law Environmental Doctrines
4. Common Law Versus Public Law
5. Introduction to Standing
6. Standing (cont.)
7. Judical Review
8. Introduction: NEPA and the Power of Information
9. The Duty to Prepare an EIS
10. Contents of the EIS - Evaluationg NEPA: Other Information Based Strategies
11. NEPA Continued
12. Risk Assessment and Management
13. From Risk Assessment to Regulation
14. Air Quality Criteria and Standards
15. State Implementation Plans
16. Make-up session: Grandfathering and New Source Review
17. Automobile Emissions and Technology Forcing
18. Tradeable Emission Permits
19. Introduction and Overview: The NPDES Program
20. The Scope of NPDES Regulation (cont.)

In this course, Professor Holly Doremus gives 20 video lectures on the concepts of Environmental Law and Policy. This introductory course is designed to explore fundamental legal and policy issues in environmental law. Through examination of environmental common law and key federal environmental statutes, including the National Environmental Policy Act, Clean Air Act, and Clean Water Act, it exposes students to the major challenges to environmental law and the principal approaches to meeting those challenges, including litigation, command and control regulation, technology forcing, market incentives, and information disclosure requirements. With the addition of cross-cutting topics such as risk assessment and environmental federalism, it also gives students a grounding in how choices about regulatory standards and levels of regulatory authority are made.

The original name for this course is: Law 271 Environmental Law and Policy.