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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
UNITED STATES STATUTES
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
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
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
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
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://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
Boston College
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/
Duke
Fordham
Georgetown
http://www.law.georgetown.edu/
Harvard
New York University
Pace
Tulane
University of California at Berkley
University of Colorado at Boulder
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
University of Vermont
Yale
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