Administrative
The legal area where judges fashion a specific resolution of the parties at hand.
Common Law
This law gives the Federal government authority to enact environmental laws.
Commerce Clause
This landmark set forth the legal test for determining whether to grant deference to a government agency's interpretation of a statute which it administers.
Chevron v. NRDC
This test requires demonstrating injury, causation, and redressability.
Standing to Sue
This method involves identifying the legal issue, rule, analysis, and conclusion.
How to Brief a Legal Case
This legal process can take more than 3 years and cost on average $1 million.
EIS
This law governs the process by which federal agencies develop and issue regulations.
Administrative Procedures Act
This case stopped the building of a multi-million-dollar dam.
TVA v. Hill
When the court over-turns an agency rule, per the APA, if it determines this about the agency rule.
A&C
Which country did your professor serve as a Peace Corps volunteer?
Costa Rica
This agency regulates dredge and fill material.
Army Corps of Engineers
This law begins with health-based criteria to determine standards, then shifts to technology controls.
Clean Air Act
This case found that a person who throws a pollutant into the water is not a point source.
U.S. v. Plaza Health Lab
This trigger involves making an endangerment finding to public health or welfare.
Clean Air Act
These people wrote your required textbook.
Percival, Schroeder, Miller, Leape
This committee can grant a permit to take an endangered species.
ESA "God Committee"
This law begins with technology controls, then uses health and usage-based criteria to determine standards.
Clean Water Act
This case tested the non-delegation principle as applied to the Clean Air Act.
Whitman v. ATA
This 4-part test triggers the requirement to obtain a CWA permit.
Addition, pollutant, point source, navigable waters
What year was George Mason University founded or the year it became independent?
GMU: initially est in ’57, but became independent in 1972
This agency regulates NEPA.
Council on Environmental Quality
This law states that the federal government has only those powers delegated to it by the Constitution, and that all other powers not forbidden to the states by the Constitution are reserved to each state.
10th Amendment, U.S. Constitution
This case expanded the CWA to allow for non-numerical limits, such as water flow restrictions, in a state water quality standard.
PUD I Jefferson County v. Washington Dept of Ecology
This constitutional test allows the judicial branch to hear legal cases.
Cases or controversies
In the video clip of Portlandia, in Lecture 1, what was the name of the chicken?
Colin