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
http://ceres.ca.gov/index.html
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.
Center for Environmental Law
www.ciel.org
Database of links and resources pertaining to the laws and communities, law schools, trade and news, biodiversity, and internship opportunities.
Center for Health, Environment and Justice
http://www.chej.org
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.
Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund
www.earthjustice.org
Formerly the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, find 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.
EcoNet
http://www.igc.org/index.html
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.
Energy Law
http://members.aol.com/IpsoFacto3/energy.html
This is a page of links to energy related sites. There are links to energy history, laws, government agencies, and energy related databases.
Envinfo
http://envinfo.com
A collection of environmental law information resources. Offers a deskbook, some features include articles on recent trends in environmental law, calendar of selected compliance deadlines, and an overview of federal government statutes. Network also maintains a collection of EPA guidance documents, administrative orders and other relevant materials.
Environmental Defense
www.environmentaldefense.org
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.
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide
www.elaw.org
E-Law 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.
Environmental Law Institute
www.eli.org
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
Environmental Law Net
http://www.environmentallawnet.com/
This site offers a thorough and well organized set of links helpful to general counsel, in-house attorneys and corporate environmental managers. Includes legal information libraries, daily news section, press releases, and internet tools useful to environmental lawyers.
Environmental Protection Agency
www.epa.gov
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.
Find Law - Legal Subjects
http://lawcrawler.findlaw.com/scripts/lc.pl?entry=ENVIRONMENTAL+law&sites=findlaw.com
Provides thousands of legal sites, cases, codes, forms, articles, resources, law reviews, and much more.
Hieros Gamos
http://www.hg.org/envirus.html
A large and comprehensive legal site with links to federal and state agencies, organizations, cases, laws, regulation codes, publications, resources and much more.
Globelaw
www.globelaw.com
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.
Green Peace International
www.greenpeace.org
Find detailed information on its various campaigns relating to toxics, nuclear waste, marine life, genetic engineering and other issues.
LII - Legal Information Institute
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/environmental.html
University's library center summarizes the body of environmental law , discussing its agencies and sharing laws, cases, news and links.
Natural Resources Defense Council
www.nrdc.org
This site 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.
North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation
http://www.cec.org/home/index.cfm?varlan=english
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.
Planet Ark
www.planetark.org
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.
Schnapf Environmental Law Information Resource Center
www.environmental-law.net
Site which focuses on environmental law in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut but covers federal and state issues as well. Provides up to date links to documents on the EPA site and elsewhere.
Scorecard
www.scorecard.org
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.
Sierra Club
www.sierraclub.org
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.
Transboundary Water Dispute Database
http://www.transboundarywaters.orst.edu/
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
U.S. Department of Agriculture
www.usda.gov
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".
U.S. Department of the Interior
www.doi.gov
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.
U.S. Department of Justice
www.usdoj.gov/enrd
Department of Justice. This site offers information on the divisions organization including an annual summary of litigation accomplishments.
