Air Quality Law: Margins of Safety
By John Wargo - Yale
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Lecture Description
Environmental Politics and Law (EVST 255)
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.
00:00 - Chapter 1. Challenges to Monitoring and Enforcing the Clean Air Act
12:56 - Chapter 2. Hazardous Air Pollutant Provisions and Vehicle Emissions
31:23 - Chapter 3. Other Sources of Small-Diameter Particles
37:04 - Chapter 4. Widespread Asthma
Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses
This course was recorded in Spring 2010.
Course Description
Can law change human behavior to be less environmentally damaging? Law will be examined through case histories including: environmental effects of national security, pesticides, air pollution, consumer products, plastics, parks and protected area management, land use, urban growth and sprawl, public/private transit, drinking water standards, food safety, and hazardous site restoration. In each case we will review the structure of law and evaluate its strengths and weaknesses. This Yale College course, taught on campus twice per week for 50 minutes, was recorded for Open Yale Courses in Spring 2010.
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