This invaluable resource -- one of the few supportive texts in environmental law -- helps students unravel and Understand The multitude of issues, statues, agency regulations, and court decisions that constitute environmental law. Be sure to consider the strengths of Environmental Law: Examples & Explanations : Comprehensive coverage of 16 areas of environmental law, all in integrated and cross-referenced chapters. Complete textual explication of basic concepts, rules, acts, and agencies in easy to understand segments. Multiple viewpoints to help ground the reader in the technical, legal, scientific, statutory, and policy aspects of real-world environmental law practice. Detailed analysis of every major new Supreme Court, Circuit Court and Lower Court opinion through early 2004 on environmental law and regulation. Reporting of recent splits in Circuit court decisions on hazardous waste. New NEPA case law and its application to extraterritorial reach. Among the changes in the Third Edition: New section on environmental equity with recent cases. Environmental science woven into each chapter. for fuller student understanding of this complex area, require or recommend Environmental Law: Examples & Explanations, Third Edition for your next course.