Legal and Regulatory Framework of Environmental Management

Enhance your understanding of the state and federal legal and regulatory system as it relates to environmental management. Increase your knowledge of topics including: the legislative and regulatory history of major environmental programs at the federal, state and local levels; principles of land use governance; hazardous materials rules; air and water quality regulations; the permitting process; natural resource protections, and other elements of the environmental legal and regulatory framework. Additionally, we will look at the public and private “players” in this arena and the essential roles they play in establishing environmental policy and crafting and implementing laws and regulations.