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 Water Act and Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability 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
Residential Lead-based Paint Hazard Reduction Act
Resource Conservation and Recovery 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
Contents of environmental impact statement
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
Science and risk assessment
Science and legislation at the EPA
The Relative Risk Reduction Strategies Committee
Release of environmental equity report
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
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
Policy, economic, and innovation
The Science Advisory Board
Office of Air and Radiation
American Indian Environmental Office
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
EPA regions and relationships with states
Permit issuance and enforcement
Environmental impact statements
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
The Federal Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice
The EPA Environmental Equity Work Group
National Environmental Justice Advisory Council overview
Regional environmental vulnerability assessments at EPA
Current EPA programs related to sustainability
Cumulative emissions and risks
Aggregate exposure and risk assessment
Assessing cumulative risk
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.
