Spring 2024
Professor(s):
Steven Cook (ADJUNCT)
Credits: 2
Course Areas: Energy, Natural Resources and Environmental Law
Time: 4:00p-6:00p M Location: 311
Course Outline: With a focus on issues EPA is currently wrestling with, this course will examine critical air pollution challenges and the tools the federal Clean Act provides federal and state governments and local communities to use in addressing air pollution. The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments were comprehensive and established numerous timelines and programs for achieving various clean air standards. As time and science has marched on, over three decades later, some problems have been solved, others improved, and yet others are still awaiting an implementable solution. Each class period will explore a particular air quality problem and the associated statutory and regulatory programs designed to address the issue. Among the topics the course will explore include aspects of climate change, regulation of mobile sources, acid rain, environmental justice, and ozone. Readings will mostly come from judicial decisions, filed briefs and relevant articles. No casebook is assigned. See the syllabus for more details.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: (Face-to-Face) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid-term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.
Prerequisites:
First Day Assignments:
Final Exam Schedule: 5/6/2024 4-6 311
This course will have:
Exam: Yes
Paper:
Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: No
DistanceEd ABA: No
Pass-Fail Student Election: Available
Course Materials
No book required for this course
Course Materials: Materials will be distributed electronically each week
