Environmental Law Resources

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry - ATSDR
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry's (ATSDR) purpose is to prevent exposure to hazardous substances. Site offers a database of hazardous substances and their health effects and short summaries about hazardous substances excerpted from ATSDR Toxicological Profiles.

URL: http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/

California Environmental Resources Evaluation System
The California Environmental Resources Evaluation System is an information system which facilitates access to a variety of electronic data regarding the state's environmental resources. Browse information by geographic area, theme, data type, and organization. Also includes a section devoted to environmental law and a library of documents for state government attorneys.

URL: http://ceres.ca.gov/index.html

Center for Environmental Law
The Center for Environmental Law is a database of links and resources pertaining to the laws and communities, law schools, trade and news, biodiversity, and internship opportunities.

URL http://www.ciel.org

Center for Health, Environment and Justice
CHEJ seeks to help local citizens and organizations come together and take an organized, unified stand in order to hold industry and government accountable and work toward a healthy, environmentally sustainable future.

URL: http://www.chej.org

Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund
The Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, formerly the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, provides details about the ELDF's key program areas as well as a docket of current cases. Assistance available in sending e-mails to lawmakers on various environmental issues.

URL: http://www.earthjustice.org

EcoNet
EcoNet is a part of the Institute for Global Communications. This site includes environmental news, action alerts and feature articles, as well as links to related sources.

URL: http://www.igc.org/index.html

Environmental Defense
Environmental Defense is a non-profit organization that links economics, science and law to address environmental issues. Filled with fact sheets, primers, reports and analyses of major environmental topics.

URL: http://www.environmentaldefense.org

Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide is a network of environmental advocates from fifty countries. Review a list of its organizational members, read about its key court victories, and review its quarterly newsletter.

URL: http://www.elaw.org

Environmental Law Institute
Environmental Law Reporter is a subscription periodical that is available in print or online. It provides in-depth and current reports on environmental law, court decisions, regulatory updates and legislative news

URL: http://www.eli.org

Environmental Protection Agency
The EPA is home to the full text of laws, regulations, press releases, newsletters and other EPA documents. Information is also available on agency programs, offices and publications.

URL: http://www.epa.gov

Find Law - Legal Subjects
Find Law's Legal Subjects provides thousands of legal sites, cases, codes, forms, articles, resources, law reviews, and much more.

URL: http://lawcrawler.findlaw.com/scripts/lc.pl?entry=ENVIRONMENTAL+law&sites=findlaw.com

Hieros Gamos
Hieros Gamos Environmental Law is a comprehensive collection of information and links to federal and state agencies, organizations, cases, laws, regulation codes, publications, resources and much more.

URL: http://www.hg.org/environ.html

Globelaw
Globelaw is a comprehensive index of multilateral treaties, conventions and laws both specific to environmental law and broader issues of international law. Included are resources on specific topics such as climate change, nuclear testing, court and arbitration opinions and important environmental topics.

URL: http://www.globelaw.com

Green Peace International
Use Green Peace to find detailed information on its various campaigns relating to toxics, nuclear waste, marine life, genetic engineering and other issues.

URL: http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/

LII - Legal Information Institute
LII's Environmental Law section summarizes the body of environmental law , discussing its agencies and sharing laws, cases, news and links.

URL: http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/Environmental_law

Natural Resources Defense Council
The NRDC offers a large amount of information on each major environmental topic. Clean air and energy, global warming, clean water and oceans, wildlife and fish, parks and forests, toxic chemicals, nuclear weapons and waste, and cities and green living are the sections included.

URL: http://www.nrdc.org/

North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation
CEC is an international organization created by Canada, Mexico and the U.S. Established to address concerns with trade, environmental conflicts, and to promote enforcement of environmental law. View programs, projects, resources, laws and latest news.

URL: http://www.cec.org/

Planet Ark
Planet Ark offers world environment news, updates and stories from Rueter's News Agency. Site also hosts the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's radio program " World Environment News", a weekly review of major stories.

URL: http://www.planetark.org/

Scorecard
Scorecard integrates more than 300 governmental and scientific databases to offer complete information on air pollution, water contamination, superfund sites, toxic chemical releases, and other environmental horrors. Type in your zip code to find the information for your county.

URL: http://www.scorecard.org/

Sierra Club
The Sierra Club is a leading environmental organization, this site includes articles and information on its various programs. Also offers news, archives and detailed reports on current campaigns and political activities.

URL: http://www.sierraclub.org/

Transboundary Water Dispute Database
The Transboundary Water Dispute Database is a searchable database of summaries and full text of 150 water-related treaties. The summaries are catalogued by basin, countries involved, date signed, treaty topic, allocations measure, conflict resolution mechanisms, and non-water linkages.

URL: http://www.transboundarywaters.orst.edu/

U.S. Department of Agriculture
The US Department of Agrigulture is responsible for protecting the the nations national forests and rangelands, also oversees over 3,000 conservation districts across the U.S. Find information on these programs as well as agency reports, news releases and the " Agriculture Fact Book".

URL: http://www.usda.gov

U.S. Department of the Interior
The US Department of the Interior is responsible for the management of federal lands, including the entire National Park System. Also responsible for enforcing laws that protect threatened and endangered species and that govern the management of wildlife refugees. Review its divisions and collection of resources relating to preserving and protecting natural resources.

URL: http://www.doi.gov

U.S. Department of Justice
Department of Justice. This site offers information on the divisions organization including an annual summary of litigation accomplishments.

URL: http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd