Introduction: NEPA and the Power of Information 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. http://www.law.berkeley.edu/students/curricularprograms/envirolaw/index.html

Paul Gertler (UC Berkeley) discussed the challenges and implications of increased energy demand in the developing world stemming from economic growth. He emphasized the needs for energy use forecasting to account for pro-poor growth, for substantial new generation capacity, for understanding the benefit-cost ratio of alternative energy in the face of rapid growth in connections to the grid, and for investigating whether it pays to make entry-level appliances for first-time owners more efficient.

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