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The Ethics: Additional Materials

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Lecture PowerPoint handouts (as PDF files): Available at a future date.

  1. Introduction - Public Issues
  2. Risk Assessment and Management
  3. Ethics part 1
  4. Ethics part 2
  5. Perception of Risk

New Source Review.

  • Read the following for class on Wednesday, November 29, 2006
  1. StarTribune article on Big Stone power plant in South Dakota
  2. Environmental Literacy background brief on New Source Review
  3. Environment & Energy Publishing Greenwire article on New Source Review case going to US Supreme Court
  4. Edison Electric Institute New Source Review web site . Read at least these two articles: a) New Source Review - A History and b) What You Should Know About Electric Companies and New Source Review
  5. NPRA New Source Review web site. Scroll to the bottom of the page to read the 'Background' from this petrochemical and refining industry group's perspective
  6. Environmental Integrity Project, an environmental group, summary of their 2003 New Source Review study
  • Background information
  1. US-EPA New Source Review web site

Other Materials:

Glossary of Ethics Terms

Summary of public ethics framework or 'lenses' through which we understand environmental issues

 
 
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