Moderator: Catherine Wolfram, UC Berkeley Panelists: Jeanne Clinton, California Public Utilities Commission Scott Henderson, Clinton Climate Initiative Tony Salazar, McCormack Baron Salazar
What is Environmental Law? Insights from Ecology and Economics
Instructor Holly Doremus. This introductory course is designed to explore fundamental legal and policy issues in environmental law. Through examination of environmental common law and key federal environmental statutes, including the National Environmental Policy Act, Clean Air Act, and Clean Water Act, it exposes students to the major challenges to environmental law and the principal approaches to meeting those challenges, including litigation, command and control regulation, technology forcing, market incentives, and information disclosure requirements. With the addition of cross-cutting topics such as risk assessment and environmental federalism, it also gives students a grounding in how choices about regulatory standards and levels of regulatory authority are made.
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The "Rosenfeld Effect" Energy Symposium discussed the role of increased energy efficiency in California, in China, and on a global scale; the intersection of energy and safe drinking water in the developing world; the twin challenges of mitigating climate change and sustaining orderly markets in fluid fuels; how to turn good science into good politics; and defining, predicting, and coping with global warming. This session features Robert Socolow - Professor & Co-Director, The Carbon Mitigation Initiative, Princeton University; Steve Chu - 1997 Nobel Laureate in Physics & Lab Director, LBNL. [events] [glopubaffairs] [scitech] Credits: producer:UC Berkeley Educational Technology Services,...