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Toxic Exposure and Health: Communities on the Front Lines

Professor(s)

Professor(s)

Semester

2022 Summer Environmental - Weekend Intensive

About This Class

This class will address several substantive issues from the perspective of community health, including the Toxic Substances Control Act, Air Toxics and the petrochemical industry, Pesticides and Farmworker Safety, Lead Exposure, and PFAS.  We will look at recent EPA actions and related cases, as well as community level impacts, frontline advocacy.  The class will examine and discuss the history and architecture of our federal statutory and regulatory programs that have allowed disproportionate impacts to persist for decades.  

Class Code

ENV5901.01

Subject

Environmental Law