Class Assignment:

Environmental Policy & Law (Chapter 4 of Edition 3 or Chapter 5 of Edition 4): An Introduction to Environmental Law and Policy); The Environmental Case (Chapter 14: Market Based Solutions and the Clean Air Act)

Homework:

1. Read the assigned text chapters and answer the questions to be found at the end of each chapter.
2. Identify the pollutants that the Clean Air Act of 1970 was principall concerned with. (You will need to do some web research to answer this).
3. How has Congress revised the Clean Air Act to limit its impact? (You will need to do some web research to answer this). What has been the impact of new interest groups upon Congress's willingness to enact environmental legislation? (You will need to do some web research to answer this)..
4. Briefly describe in no more than 200 words percase the issues at sake with two of the judicial cases presented below. In preparing for this assignment, you should review the link provided for this course to help you analyze case law.

• Lead Industries Association v. EPA (See page 124f of Michael Schmidt's article "Delegation & Discretion.")

• American Trucking Associations v. EPA

• Union Electric Company v. EPA