MSC 610 Ocean & Coastal Environ Law
Course will examine a number of emerging ocean and coastal policy issues. Among the policy issues are those relating to oil, gas, and alternative energy facilities and equipment in coastal or oceanwaters, the privatization of public waters, the impact of rising sea levels upon ocean beaches and estuarine shorelines, beach nourishment and shoreline protection, development setback lines, the use of ocean outfalls to dispose of wastewater, and the future role of the Coastal Resources Commission. Course will examine these and other emerging policy issues and the governing state and federal legal regime. Credit cannot be awarded for both MSC 610 and PPOL 691. Cross listed course: PPOL 691.