A Transition Guide to the New 9th Edition of Environmental Regulation

 SUMMARY OF MAJOR CHANGES: A new section on Environmental Justice has been added to Chapter 1, including discussion of the history of the environmental justice movement, principles of environmental justice and legal responses to environmental justice problems.
 Efforts to establish constitutional environmental rights are discussed and the 9th Circuit’s Juliana v. United States opinion is now included in Chapter 2.
 How PFAS evaded TSCA regulation is discussed in Chapter 3.
 An excerpt from the Supreme Court’s 2020 Atlantic Richfield Company v. Christian decision has been added to Chapter 4 in an updated section called “The CERCLA Remediation Process and State Law Remedies.”
 An excerpt from the D.C. Circuit’s 2021 American Lung Ass’n v. EPA decision striking down the Trump administration’s effort to replace the Obama EPA’s Clean Power Plan has been added.
 A subsection entitled “Do Discharges That Pass Through Groundwater Require a Permit?” has been added to Chapter 6. This new section includes an excerpt from the Supreme Court’s 2020 County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund decision.
 The effect of racial redlining on land use patterns and its implications for environmental justice problems such as urban heat islands in minority neighborhoods has been added to Chapter 7.
 The Trump administration’s efforts to “streamline” the NEPA process by issuing new NEPA regulations is discussed throughout the Chapter 8.
 Revisions to ESA regulations adopted by the Trump administration are discussed in Chapter 9 and an excerpt from the Supreme Court’s Weyerhaeuser Co. v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision has been added to the “Critical Habitat Designation” section.
 Chapter 10 highlights former EPA enforcement chief Cynthia Giles’s new, hard-hitting critique of environmental compliance gaps. The new edition also discusses the reversal of the Trump administration’s effort to ban supplemental environmental projects in enforcement settlements and court decisions seeking to “atomize” environmental standing are discussed in Chapter 10.
 The state of global efforts to control greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) is discussed and an excerpt from the Supreme Court’s Jam decision allowing environmental suits against international organizations is discussed in Chapter 11.
 A new section on “Private Environmental Governance” is added to Chapter 12 including the Business Roundtable’s declaration on the purpose of corporations.