Environmental legal framework in the United States
Environmental legal framework in the United States
Case Assignment
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This Case Assignment explores the environmental legal framework in the United States and the birth of the National Environmental Policy Act. In a 3- to 4-page paper, answer the following questions. Justify your responses by presenting your rationale and illustrating with examples and facts as needed. Support your writing with the literature.
In the context of the U.S. regulatory framework, what is the difference between environmental laws, regulations, and standards?
What were the three most important factors leading to passage of the National Environmental Policy Act?
What compromises were reached to assure the NEPA legislation would pass?
Length: Submit a 3- to 4-page paper.
Required Reading
Alm, A. L. (1988, January/February). NEPA: Past, present, and future. EPA Journal. Revised 2016. Retrieved from http://www2.epa.gov/aboutepa/
Carruth, R. S., & Goldstein, B. D. (2013). Chapter 1: Overview of U.S. legal system. In Environmental health law: An introduction (pp. 1–22). Somerset, NJ, USA: Jossey-Bass, Wiley.
Carruth, R. S., & Goldstein, B. D. (2013). Chapter 2: Transparency & accountability in the executive branch: Judicial review and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). In Environmental health law: An introduction (pp. 23–40). Somerset, NJ, USA: Jossey-Bass, Wiley.
Council on Environmental Quality. (1997). The National Environmental Policy Act: A study of its effectiveness after twenty-five years. Retrieved from https://ceq.doe.gov/nepa/
Kraft, M. (2015). Environmental policy and politics (6th ed.). New York, NY: Routledge.
Lewis, J. (1985, November). The birth of EPA. EPA Journal. Retrieved from http://www2.epa.gov/aboutepa/
National environmental policy act implementing procedures. (2016). Lanham: Federal Information & News Dispatch, Inc.
Spina, F. (2015). Environmental justice and patterns of State inspections. Social Science Quarterly (Wiley-Blackwell), 96(2), 417-429. doi:10.1111/ssqu.12160
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (2016). Environmental justice considerations in the NEPA process. Retrieved from http://www.epa.gov/compliance/
Van Sluytman, L. G., & Sheppard, P. (2016). 26 Environment of the margins. Emergent Possibilities for Global Sustainability: Intersections of Race, Class and Gender, 197.
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Environmental laws, regulations, and standards control the various environmental impacts which are linked with the different industrial activities. It is also notable that the environmental compliance starts with the identification and observing all the applicable and necessary environmental laws and standards………………………..
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