Advanced Introduction to U.S. Environmental Law

E. Donald Elliott, Former Professor of Law, Yale Law School, USA, 1981–2025, Yangzte River Distinguished Professor, Guangzhou Law School, China, Distinguished Adjunct Professor, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University and Partner, Earth & Water Law and Daniel C. Esty, Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, Yale School of the Environment and Yale Law School, USA

• Contents: 1. How U.S. environmental law is really made 2. Recurrent themes in U.S. environmental law 3. The Clean Air Act: successful but slow 4. Climate change: an “existential threat” not yet addressed 5. Clean Water Act: major progress but persistent challenges 6. Safe Drinking Water Act: once seen as a problem solved, but now new worries 7. Hazardous waste: extreme measures in the wake of a crisis 8. Regulation of chemicals: from toxic substance control to chemical safety 9. FIFRA: from misbranding to reasonable certainty of no harm 10. Occupational Safety and Health Act: making environments safe on the job 11. OPA90: why economic incentives only work sometimes 12. From protecting endangered species to promoting biodiversity and healthy ecosystems 13. National parks and wilderness preservation: “America’s best idea” 14. NEPA and information disclosure: techniques copied around the world 15. Beyond traditional environmental governance: corporate sustainability, performance benchmarking, private standard setting, and public–private partnerships 16. Conclusion: the best and the worst Index

’Don Elliott and Dan Esty, both leading figures in environmental law and policy, promise in the first chapter to explain how environmental law really is made and works, and they deliver on that promise in a thoroughly enjoyable and accessible format. This book is a perfect reference for a new associate assigned to a law firm‚Äôs environmental law department as well as a great adjunct to a law school course casebook.’