ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND LAW

 Chapter 8: Waste Management

Class Assignment:

Read the assigned text chapter first and then go through the class topic list and related links below. Be prepared to be examined at the end of session 10 on any or all of the environmental terms, concepts and cases below found in chapter 7 or in the section below. For this week's homework, briefly describe the issues at stake within four of the following important judicial cases: (In preparing for this assignment, you should review the link provided for this course to help you analyze case law)

• American Mining Congress v. EPA (AMC)

• American Petroleum Institute v. EPA (API)

• Hazardous Waste Treatment Council v. EPA

• Philadelphia v. New Jersey

• Chemical Waste Management v. Hunt

• Oregon Waste Systems, Inc. v. Department of Environmental Quality

• Fort Gratiot Sanitary Landfill, Inc., v. Michigan Department of Natural Resources

• State of Vermont v. Staco

• United States Steel  v. Fleet Factors Corp.