In this course, we will study federal environmental law by examining major court decisions, with a focus on leading decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court -- from early natural resources and nuisance cases to modern decisions addressing modern regulatory statutes.  We’ll consider questions like: What kinds of environmental concerns may parties litigate in federal courts?  What kinds of environmental claims, causes and values, have tended to prevail in the Supreme Court, and where have they been less successful?  To what extent do judges' and justices’ personal and professional backgrounds and experiences affect, and the process by which they are selected, affect their outlook on environmental law? What do the Supreme Court’s decisions show about how it has conceived of Congress’s, the Executive’s, the States, and its own role, in managing natural resources and addressing environmental pollution?  What are the implications of the shift in the Court’s membership in recent decades, particularly during the latter years of the Roberts Court, for environmental law and environmental advocates? How has today's preeminent environmental concern, climate change, played out in the Supreme Court so far?