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EVST 255: Environmental Politics and Law

Lecture 12 - Air Quality Law: Margins of Safety. The lecture describes the Clean Air Act and the way the federal government measures air quality as well as improvements in air quality. Professor Wargo reviews challenges in regulating air quality, reasons for lack of adequate enforcement, and approaches to setting ambient air quality standards. The lecture focuses predominantly on vehicle emissions, and the difficulty that regulators face when trying to decrease particulate matter expelled by cars. The public health impacts of poor air quality, particularly in urban areas, are discussed as well. (from oyc.yale.edu)

Lecture 12 - Air Quality Law: Margins of Safety

Time Lecture Chapters
[00:00:00] 1. Challenges to Monitoring and Enforcing the Clean Air Act
[00:12:56] 2. Hazardous Air Pollutant Provisions and Vehicle Emissions
[00:31:23] 3. Other Sources of Small-Diameter Particles
[00:37:04] 4. Widespread Asthma

References
Lecture 12 - Air Quality Law: Margins of Safety
Instructor: Professor John Wargo. Resources: Lecture 12 [PDF]. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov].

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Lecture 01 - Introduction to the Course
Lecture 02 - Principles and Strategies in Environmental Law
Lecture 03 - Nuclear Experiments
Lecture 04 - Nuclear Secrecy and Ecology
Lecture 05 - Preparing for War: NEPA
Lecture 06 - Marine Food-Chains: Mercury
Lecture 07 - Site Restoration Law
Lecture 08 - Chemically Dependent Agriculture
Lecture 09 - Risk and Law: Pesticide Paradigm
Lecture 10 - Safe Drinking Water: Science and Law
Lecture 11 - Safety Claims and Free Speech: Preemption and Defamation
Lecture 12 - Air Quality Law: Margins of Safety
Lecture 13 - Vehicle Emissions and Public Transit
Lecture 14 - The Quiet Revolution in Plastics
Lecture 15 - The Tobacco Paradigm
Lecture 16 - Evolution of Tobacco Law
Lecture 17 - Land Use and Conservation Law: The Adirondack History
Lecture 18 - Property Rights and Public Lands Management
Lecture 19 - Land Use Law and Property Rights
Lecture 20 - Managing Coastal Resources in an Era of Climate Change
Lecture 21 - Certification: Design and Green Architecture
Lecture 22 - Past and Future of Nuclear Power
Lecture 23 - Renewable Energy Policies
Lecture 24 - Reflection and Lessons