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Environmental Law Web Links
Spring 2021 - Professor Johnson

 

Environmental Philosophies and Values; Economics and Ecology

EPA report re: Air Quality Trends
U.S. Congress Environmental Voting Records - League of Conservation Voters
Earth Liberation Front
EPA's Report on the Environment
Ecological Footprint Calculator 
Map of Climate Conditions in 2080 Based on Climate Change  
Unnatural Disaster:The Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
A Moment on the Earth  
Green Manhattan: Why New York is the Greenest City in the U.S.

BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS

Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
Henry David Thoreau, Walden 

PHOTO COLLECTIONS

National Archives - EPA Documerica Collection   
Flickr View of EPA Documerica Collection 
 

Common Law Actions

Health and Environmental Effects of Sulfur Dioxide
Historical information about mining and development in the Ducktown region (from USGS)
Historical information about reversal of the Chicago River
Photo Tour of sites at issue in Ducktown and Missouri cases (from Professor Percival's website)

BOOK RECOMMENDATION
Jonathan Harr - A Civil Action

 
Public Law

General Mining Law of 1872 - Background and reforms - (Earthworks Web site)
History of EPA - from EPA's History Office
Environmental Council of the States

BOOK LINK

Peter Langrock, Addison County Justice, Tales from a Vermont Courthouse

 
Regulation and Its Alternatives

Revised Green Marketing Guidelines from the FTC
Green Marketing Amendments
Toxic Release Inventory Information from EPA
Economics v. Equity: Do Market-Based Environmental Reforms Exacerbate Environmental Injustice?

BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS

Stephen Breyer, Breaking the Viscious Cycle: Toward Effective Risk Regulation
Cass Sunstein, After the Rights Revolution:Reconceiving the Regulatory State
Stephen Johnson, Economics, Equity and the Environment

 
Basic Principles of Administrative Law

EPA's Environmental Appeals Board Home Page

OMB's Regulations Website  
Regulations.Gov  
Christensen v. Harris County (Thomas' opinion)

 
NEPA, Judicial Review and Standing

NEPA Computer Assisted Legal Instruction Exercise

Council of Environmental Quality's NEPA Web Page
National Association of Environmental Professionals

BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS

John Cronin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., The Riverkeepers
Christopher D. Stone, Should Trees Have Standing?

 
Environmental Justice

Executive Order 12898 
EPA's Office of Environmental Justice
EPA's Title VI Guidance
Executive Order 13166
National Environmental Justice Advisory Council

BOOK RECOMMENDATION

Robert Bullard, Unequal Protection, Environmental Justice and Communities of Color
Stephen Johnson, Economics, Equity and the Environment

 
Introduction to RCRA

EPA Report - Characterization of Municipal Waste
EPA fact sheet - RCRA requirements for hazardous waste generators
EPA fact sheet for small quantity generators of hazardous waste
Data on hazardous waste generators and TSD facilities (Search EPA databases)
EPA information re: authorization of State H.W. programs

 
Identifying Hazardous Waste

EPA's universal waste rule (Final rule)


 
Introduction to Superfund

EPA Superfund web page
Superfund regulations (NCP = Part 300; List of haz. substs. = Part 302)
EPA fact sheets re: NPL sites
National Response Center

 
Responsible Parties Under CERCLA

Information about chemicals usually found at Superfund sites
EPA's Brownfields Home Page  

 
Liability under CERCLA (continued)

EPA ROD for Butler Tunnel NPL site

 
Responsible Parties and Response Costs

ATSDR Web Page

 
Introduction to the Clean Water Act

EPA report re: water quality in the states (required by Section 305(b))

EPA report re: NPS success stories
EPA fact sheet - What we can do to prevent NPS pollution
EPA's effluent guideline regulations (40 CFR Subchapter N)
EPA's Nonpoint Source Web Page
"Surf Your Watershed" (WQ information re: your watershed)
ELI report re: State nonpoint source control programs

 
Effluent Standards under the Clean Water Act

Pretreatment requirements in the State of North Carolina
Camden County, N.J. Municipal Utilities Authority Pretreatment Program
Georgia's water quality standards (Sec. 391-3-6-.03) (PDF format)
Sierra Club v. Hankinson (N.D. Ga. 1996)
EPA TMDL page (guidance, case studies, advisory committee)


Wetlands

EPA wetlands fact sheets

EPA wetlands page
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's National Wetlands Inventory
Corps of Engineers - Sacramento District
National Wildlife Federation wetlands page
Corps wetlands regulations
EPA's wetlands regulations
Wetlands overview: Problems with Acreage Data Persist (GAO report)
Corps of Engineers fact sheet re: Recognizing Wetlands
Corps of Engineers Regulatory Guidance Letters
Overview of the types of wetlands permits from the Corps of Engineers
Permit application
Nationwide Permits from the Corps of Engineers
EPA fact sheet re: mitigation banking
EPA Fact sheet re: takings and wetlands regulation

BOOK RECOMMENDATION

Audubon Society Nature Guide - Wetlands

Environmental Enforcement

EPA Environmental Enforcement Policies
EPA's Office of Enforcement Home Page
EPA Audit Policy
EPA's FY 2019 Enforcement report
EPA's Supplemental Environmental Projects Policy

 
Endangered Species

US Fish and Wildlife Service Endangered Species Home Page

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
ESA listing process (USFWS description)
Federal Endangered Species list
Habitat Conservation Plans 
Evolution of the Conservation Movement (Library of Congress)

BOOK RECOMMENDATION
Edward O. Wilson, The Diversity of Life

Pollution Prevention
EPA's Pollution Prevention Home Page