1. A brief history of the Environmental Protection Agency and its powers

Basic organizational structure

Council on Environmental Quality

Administrative law judges

Environmental Appeals Board

The laws implemented by the EPA

Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act

Chemical Safety Information, Site Security, and Fuels Regulatory Relief Act

Clean Air Act

Clean Water Act and Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

Endangered Species Act

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act

Food Quality Protection Act

Lead Contamination Control Act

Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act

National Environmental Education Act

National Environmental Policy Act

Oil Pollution Act

Pollution Prevention Act

Residential Lead-based Paint Hazard Reduction Act

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

Safe Drinking Water Act

Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act

Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act

Toxic Substances Control Act

International EPA engagement.

2. Notable cases affecting the EPA

Judicial standing requirements

Review of administrative decisions

Citizen suits

Judicial intervention

EPA authority

Contents of environmental impact statement

Hazardous waste

Solid waste

Air quality

Intergovernmental communications and conflict resolution

When the EPA is furloughed

3. Controversies and Issues

Love Canal and the Hooker Chemical Company

Exxon Valdez : oil spilled

Oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge : oil drilled?

Three Mile Island : radiation leaked

Disposal of nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain : radiation disposed?

Best available control technology vs. most economical pollution control technology

Environmental justice : Warren County and the Shintech controversies

Cities, the EPA, brownfields, portfields, and grayfields.

4. Traditions and culture of the EPA

Beginning policies : 1970-1973

Dynamic priorities : environmental protection, public health, and the economy

The ethos of cleaning up the environment

Potentially responsible parties

Children's health protection

Cancer

Science and risk assessment

Science advisory board

Environmental modeling

Science and legislation at the EPA

Measurement science

Unfinished business

The Relative Risk Reduction Strategies Committee

Release of environmental equity report

Cumulative risks

Role of federal advisory committees

The legal framework for EPA advisory committees

Advisory committee performance

How the EPA uses FACA to achieve collaboration

Environmental enforcement approach for facilitation of compliance

Sector-based approaches at the EPA

Compliance monitoring

EPA's audit policy

Audit protocols

Traditions and culture from National Environmental Policy Act

Supplemental environmental projects.

5. Organization and day-to-day activities

Administrative law judges

Alternative dispute resolution in the Office of Administrative Law Judges

Congressional and intergovernmental relations

Environmental Appeals Board

Homeland security

Policy, economic, and innovation

Public affairs

The Science Advisory Board

Office of Air and Radiation

American Indian Environmental Office

Internal EPA operations

Strategic plan

2003-2008 EPA strategic plan : direction for the future

Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance

Office of the Inspector general

Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics

Office of Research and Development

Office of Water

EPA regions and relationships with states

Permit issuance and enforcement

Environmental impact statements

Policy development

Public involvement

Definitions of the stakeholder involvement terms

How the public can learn about waste and chemicals.

6. Future challenges for the EPA

Community-based environmental planning

Environmental justice

The Federal Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice

Individual case studies

The EPA Environmental Equity Work Group

National Environmental Justice Advisory Council overview

Sustainability

Regional environmental vulnerability assessments at EPA

Current EPA programs related to sustainability

Cumulative emissions and risks

The beginning

Aggregate exposure and risk assessment

Assessing cumulative risk

Ecosystem approaches

7. Biographies of important EPA administrators

8. Chronology of key events

Appendix 1. Executive Order 12898 : "environmental justice" : federal actions to address environmental justice in minority populations and low-income populations

Appendix 2. Principles of environmental justice.