ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

This page is intended to provide easy access to reliable environmental law resources to support the informed intervention into the Federal administrative, legislative, and judicial processes.  This is for users with varied backgrounds across the spectrum from   the concerned lay person to the seasoned environmental lawyer.  This page includes links to the basic set of environmental treaties, compacts, agreements, laws, regulations, rules, standards, methods and procedures, and the programs created to implement them.  It also includes basic texts, books, and journals dedicated to environmental law, as well as index, blog, commons and clearinghouse websites and environmental law schools and clinics.

INTRODUCTION

TO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

USA

http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/environmental_law

INTERNATIONAL

http://www.law.georgetown.edu/library/research/guides/InternationalEnvironmentalLaw.cfm

BASIC ENVIRONMENTAL LAW 

INTERNATIONAL TREATIES, AGREEMENTS, COMPACTS, CONVENTIONS, and PROTOCOLS

http://www.ecolex.org/ecolex/ledge/view/Treaties;DIDPFDSIjsessionid=54E4ED129DCBE4124D29673325A76E0F

http://www.nrdc.org/reference/laws.asp 

http://iea.uoregon.edu/page.php?file=home.htm&query=static

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_environmental_agreements

BOUNDARY WATERS

CANADA

http://www.epa.gov/oia/regions/na/canada/

MEXICO

http://www.ibwc.state.gov/Treaties_Minutes/treaties.html

OCEANS and SEAS

http://www.un.org/depts/los/index.htm

CLIMATE CHANGE

KYOTO PROTOCOL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol 

OZONE LAYER

MONTREAL PROTOCOL

 http://www.epa.gov/ozone/intpol/

TOXIC SUBSTANCES

http://www.epa.gov/oswer/international/factsheets/200610-international-chemical-hazards.htm

PERSISTENT, BIOACCUMULATIVE, and TOXIC SUBSTANCES

STOCKHOLM CONVENTION

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_organic_pollutant

MERCURY

MINIMATA CONVENTION

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata_Convention_on_Mercury 

HAZARDOUS WASTE

http://www.epa.gov/oswer/international/factsheets/200610-international-chemical-hazards.htm

MIGRATORY SPECIES

http://www.fws.gov/international/laws-treaties-agreements/treaties-and-conventions/convention-on-migratory-species.html

UNITED STATES STATUTES 

http://legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com/law-products/Advanced-Search-Categories/Practice-Areas/Environmental-Law/c/20112?trkcode=NEOPPCBKS&trktype=external&searchid=NEOPPCBKS 

http://www.nrdc.org/reference/laws.asp

http://telstar.ote.cmu.edu/environ/m3/s7/us_laws.shtml 

http://www2.epa.gov/laws-regulations/laws-and-executive-orders

GENERAL NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT

http://www.epw.senate.gov/nepa69.pdf

NEPA IMPLEMENTATION

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Environmental_Policy_Act

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Internal Page Link

AIR

CLEAN AIR ACT

http://www.epw.senate.gov/envlaws/cleanair.pdf

CLEAN AIR ACT IMPLEMENTATION

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Air_Act_(United_States) 

WATER

CLEAN WATER ACT

http://www.epw.senate.gov/water.pdf 

CLEAN WATER ACT IMPLEMENTATION

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Water_Act

SOLID and HAZARDOUS WASTE

RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RECOVERY ACT

http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/resource_conservation_and_recovery_act_rcra

RCRA IMPLEMENTATION

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Conservation_and_Recovery_Act

HAZARDOUS and SOLID WASTE ACT

http://www.epa.gov/osw/laws-regs/rcrahistory.htm 

HSWA IMPLEMENTATION 

 http://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyNET.exe/9100UD5C.TXT?ZyActionD=ZyDocument&Client=EPA&Index=1986+Thru+1990&Docs=&Query=&Time=&EndTime=&SearchMethod=1&TocRestrict=n&Toc=&TocEntry=&QField=&QFieldYear=&QFieldMonth=&QFieldDay=&IntQFieldOp=0&ExtQFieldOp=0&XmlQuery=&File=D%3A%5Czyfiles%5CIndex%20Data%5C86thru90%5CTxt%5C00000024%5C9100UD5C.txt&User=ANONYMOUS&Password=anonymous&SortMethod=h%7C-&MaximumDocuments=1&FuzzyDegree=0&ImageQuality=r75g8/r75g8/x150y150g16/i425&Display=p%7Cf&DefSeekPage=x&SearchBack=ZyActionL&Back=ZyActionS&BackDesc=Results%20page&MaximumPages=1&ZyEntry=1&SeekPage=x&ZyPURL

PESTICIDES

FEDERAL INSECTICIDE FUNGICIDE RODENTICIDE ACT (FIFRA)

http://www2.epa.gov/laws-regulations/summary-federal-insecticide-fungicide-and-rodenticide-act

FIFRA IMPLEMENTATION

http://www.epa.gov/agriculture/lfra.html



TOXIC SUBSTANCES

 TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL ACT

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/chapter-53

TSCA IMPLEMENTATION

http://www.epa.gov/agriculture/lsca.html

PATHOGENS

FOOD

http://www.epa.gov/agriculture/tfsy.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_Safety_and_Modernization_Act 

SEWAGE SLUDGE

http://www.epa.gov/region8/water/biosolids/pdf/625R92013ALL.pdf

RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS

LAWS

http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/radiation/protects-you/reg-matls.html

 

http://www.nrc.gov/waste.html 

http://www.radwaste.org/laws.htm

IMPLEMENTATION

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part020/full-text.html

http://www.epa.gov/radtown/water.html

FOOD SAFETY

http://www.epa.gov/agriculture/tfsy.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_Safety_an

REGULATIONS, STANDARDS and METHODS



BASIC IMPLEMENTING ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS

RELATED FEDERAL PROGRAMS

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

U.S. Dept. of Agriculture

U.S. Department of Energy

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

BASIC BOOKS and JOURNALS on ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

General

http://readlawbooks.info/environmental-law-books/

Geogre Gordon Coughlin, Law for the Layman, Harper, NY, 1975

http://www.amazon.com/Law-Layman-GEORGE-COUGHLIN/dp/0064650200/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1378866012&sr=1-11&keywords=law+for+the+layman

Environmental Law Handbook, 21st Edition. Government Institutes, Rockville, MD, 2011

http://www.scribd.com/doc/80750975/Environmental-Law-Handbook

Roger W. Findley and Daniel A. Farber. Environmentl Law in a Nutshell, West, St. Paul, MN, 1988

http://www.amazon.com/Environmental-Law-Nutshell-Roger-Findley/dp/0314151761

Environmental Law Journals and Reviews

http://stu.findlaw.com/journals/environmental.html

Harvard

http://www3.law.harvard.edu/journals/elr/

Lewis and Clark

http://law.lclark.edu/law_reviews/environmental_law/

Stanford

http://elj.stanford.edu/

Tulane

http://www.law.tulane.edu/tlsjournals/enviro/

William and Mary

http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmelpr/

Yale

http://environment.yale.edu/envirocenter/

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW GATEWAYS, INDEXES, COMMONS, CLEARINGHOUSE and BLOG WEBSITES

http://www.ecolex.org/start.php

http://network.bepress.com/law/environmental-law/

http://elr.info/

http://www.eprivacy.com/lectures/law-for-laymen.html

http://www.vjel.org/links.php

http://environment.yale.edu/envirocenter/

TOP-RATED  ENVIRONMENTAL LAW SCHOOLS and CLINICS

American University

http://www.wcl.american.edu/ 

Boston College

http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/ 

Duke

http://law.duke.edu/ 

Fordham

http://law.fordham.edu/ 

Georgetown

http://www.law.georgetown.edu/ 

Harvard

http://www.law.harvard.edu/

New York University

http://www.law.nyu.edu/ 

Pace

http://www.law.pace.edu/ 

Tulane

http://www.law.tulane.edu/

University of California at Berkley

http://www.law.berkeley.edu/

University of Colorado at Boulder

http://www.colorado.edu/law/ 

University of Maryland

http://www.law.umaryland.edu/index.html 

University of Michigan

http://www.law.umich.edu/aboutus/Pages/default.aspx 

University of Orgeon

http://law.uoregon.edu/ 

University of Vermont

 http://www.vermontlaw.edu/

Yale

http://www.law.yale.edu/