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Environmental Law: Statutory and Case Supplement with Internet Guide 2012-2013

1. Environmental Justice

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Title VI Regulations
Executive Order 12,898, Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in

2. The Regulatory Process

Administrative Procedure Act
Regulatory Flexibility Act
Information Quality Act
OMB, Agency Information Quality Guidelines
Congressional Review Act
Regulatory Planning and Review, Executive Order 12,866

3. Regulation of Toxic Substances

Toxic Substances Control Act
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)
Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA)
California’s Proposition

4. Waste Management and Pollution Prevention

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)
Pollution Prevention Act (PPA)

5. Air Pollution Control

Clean Air Act

6. Water Pollution Control

Clean Water Act (CWA)
Oil Pollution Act (OPA)

7. Land Use Regulation

Coastal Zone Management Act

8. Environmental Assessment

National Environmental Policy Act
NEPA Regulations

9. Biodiversity Protection

Endangered Species Act

10. Public Land Management

Multiple Use Sustained Yield Act
Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act
Federal Land Policy and Management Act

11. Case Supplement

Burlington Northern And Santa Fe Railway Co. v. United States
United States v. Atlantic Research Corporation
United Haulers Ass’n., Inc. v. Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Management Authority
Environmental Defense v. Duke Energy Corp.
Massachusetts v. EPA
Rapanos v. United States
Entergy Corporation v. Riverkeeper, Inc.
Exxon Shipping Company v. Baker
Stop the Beach Renourishment v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection
Coeur Alaska, Inc v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council
Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
Monsanto v. Geertson Seed Farms
National Ass’n of Homebuilders v. Defenders of Wildlife
Summers v. Earth Island Institute

Robert V. Percival

Robert Percival

Robert F. Stanton Professor of Law and
Director, Environmental Law Program

Phone: (410) 706-8030
Fax: (410) 706-2184
E-mail:

BA, 1972, Macalester College
MA, 1978, JD, 1978, Stanford University

Curriculum Vitae

Biography | Selected Publications

Professor Percival joined the Maryland faculty in 1987 after serving as senior attorney for the Environmental Defense Fund. While in law school, he served as managing editor of the Stanford Law Review and was named the Nathan Abbott Scholar for graduating first in his class. Percival served as a law clerk for Judge Shirley M. Hufstedler of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White. Percival also served as a special assistant to the first U.S. Secretary of Education.

Percival is internationally recognized as a leading scholar in environmental law. He is principal author of the country's most widely used casebook in environmental law, Environmental Regulation: Law, Science & Policy, now in its sixth edition. He has written extensively on several topics, including environmental law, regulatory policy, federalism, presidential powers, and legal history. Percival has taught as a visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School in 2000 and 2009 and at Georgetown University Law Center in 2005. He currently teaches Environmental Law, Comparative Environmental Law, Constitutional Law, and Administrative Law at Maryland. In 2007 he was named the University's 'Teacher of the Year.'

During the spring semester 2008 Percival taught as a J. William Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing. He previously taught as a Fulbright scholar at Comenius University Law School in Slovakia. Percival has lectured and presented environmental law workshops on six continents in countries including Australia, Chile, India, Iran, Japan, Mongolia, Uganda, Ukraine, and the former Soviet Union. He also has lectured at 15 universities and before several professional associations and government agencies in China. In 2009 he served as a Citizen Ambassador to China for the U.S. Department of State. Percival has served as the Natural Resource Law Institute Distinguished Visitor at Lewis & Clark College of Law and as a visiting professor of law at the University of Chile where he helped establish South America's first environmental law clinic. He also has taught summer courses at the University of British Columbia and at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland.

Percival currently is working on the first casebook on 'Global Environmental Law.' He maintains a website developed for the casebook (www.globalenvironmentallaw.com) on which his weekly blog appears. The blog also is available at http://globalenvironmentallaw.blogspot.com. Percival is a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law. In April 2009 he delivered Pace Law School's Lloyd K. Garrison Lecture on 'The Globalization of Environmental Law.'

Percival has served on the Board of Directors of the Environmental Law Institute and as co-chair of the steering committee of the D.C. Bar's Section on Environmental, Energy and Natural Resources Law. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute. Percival has served as the contributing editor for Environment and Natural Resources for the Federal Circuit Bar Journal, as a special master for the U.S. District Court of Maryland, and as a member of the state of Maryland's Environmental Restoration and Development Task Force.

Christopher H. Schroeder is Charles S. Murphy Professor of Law and Professor of Public Policy Studies, and director of the Program in Public Law. His publications include a leading environmental law casebook, Environmental Regulation: Law, Science and Policy (6th Edition, 2008), Presidential Power Stories (with Curtis A. Bradley, 2008), A New Progressive Agenda for Public Health and the Environment (2005), a project of the Center for Progressive Reform (CPR), co-edited with Rena Steinzor. He has served on National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine committees to evaluate the use of human intentional dosing studies by EPA and the adequacy of the U.S. drug safety system.

Schroeder has served as acting assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice, where he was responsible for legal advice to the attorney general, the executive office of the president and other executive branch agencies on a broad range of issues, including separation of powers, other constitutional issues, and matters of statutory interpretation and administrative law. He has also served as chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee. He is of counsel to the firm of O'Melveny and Myers.

He received his B.A. degree from Princeton University in 1968, a M.Div. from Yale University in 1971, and his J.D. degree from University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall) in 1974, where he was editor-in-chief of the California Law Review. He is married to Katharine T. Bartlett, former dean of Duke Law School. They have three children: Emily, Ted, and Lily.