Class Topics: 

• Political Anatomy of Environmental Command & Control Regulation

• Regulating Air Quality

• Regulating Water Quality

Readings:     

Chapter 6 of Walter Ronsenbaum's Environmental Politics and Policy. (10th Ediction), Washington, DC: CQ Press.

Homework Assignment:           

1. Identify, describe and analyze a current controversy in the U.S. involving either air or water quality in which the federal EPA or its state equivalent (at the state or federal level) are employing command and control tactics and are running into resistance from concerned citizens, organizations or groups. This is a 10 page paper due before the end of session 6.