ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION AND REGULATION

Catalog description

This class looks at the pollution of various environmental media, including air, soil and water. Topics to be discussed include: release of pollutants by various natural and anthropogenic processes, the transport and residence time of pollutants in the three environmental media (soil, air and water), and potential human health and ecosystem impact. The most important federal environmental regulations and how they are used in compliance monitoring and the clean-up of contaminated sites will be discussed.