Environmental Law Seminar Web Links
Spring 2021 - Professor Johnson
Spring 2021 - Professor Johnson
Introduction
- Clean Air Act Section 109(b)(1) - health-based standard
- Clean Air Act Section 202(a)(3) - technology and cost-based standard
- Negotiated Rulemaking Act of 1996
- TMDL Process under the Clean Water Act
- Deposit Refund Systems (EPA Report)
- Deposit Refund Systems in Practice and Theory (RFF Report)
- Environmental Taxes (EPA Report)
- OECD Guide to Environmental Taxes
- Clean Air Markets Web Page (EPA) - includes SO2 and NOx
- National Center for Environmental Economics (EPA)
Information Disclosure Laws
- Dental Effluent Guidelines - EPA
- EPA's Toxic Release Inventory Web Page
- EPA TRI Form R for reporting
- EPA Website - TRI data uses
- TRI Data and Tools
- ATSDR Toxic Chemical Fact Sheets
- Macon Water Authority Consumer Confidence Report for 2017
- Macon Water Authority - Spill and Overflow Notices
- EU PRTR
- Proposition 65
- Proposition 65 Regulations
- Disneyland Proposition 65 Warning
- Starbucks Proposition 65 Warning
- FTC Green Marketing Guidelines
- FTC Website for Green Marketing Guidlelines (includes prior versions)
- Energy Star Program
- Green Seal Program
- EU Ecolabel Program
- Surf Your Watershed
- EPA's Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO)
Trading Programs: Air Programs
- The SO2 Allowance Trading System: The Ironic History of a Grand Policy Experiment (MIT Report)
- EPA - Clean Air Act in a Nutshell
- EPA - Air Markets Web Page
- EPA's SO2 Trading Web Page
- American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009
- EPA's Cross-State Air Pollution Rule
- EPA's Clean Air Interstate Rule
- EPA's NOx Budget Trading Program
- U.S. Emissions Trading Markets for SO2 and NOx (RFF Report)
- EPA's Air Markets Program Data - Design Your Own Maps and Reports
Trading Programs: Water Programs; Environmental Justice
- Water Trading Programs in the Chesapeake Bay - EPA Web Page
- EPA's Water Quality Trading Toolkit
- Corps of Engineers' Mitigation Regulations
- Corps of Engineers Video re: Mitigation
- EPA Fact Sheet for Mitigation
- RIBITs (Search for Mitigation Banks)
- EPA Mitigation Banking Web Page
- Early Mitigation Banking Permit - 1992 Corps Permit for W.E.T., Inc. Mitigation Bank
Cost Benefit Analysis
- Office of Management and Budget
- Regulatory Information from the Office of Management and Budget
- Executive Order 12866
- Executive Order 13422
- Executive Order 13497
- Executive Order 13563
- Cost Benefit Analysis for Clean Water Act "Waters of the United States" Rulemaking
Climate Change
- Competitive Enterprise Institute - "We Call It Life"
- John Oliver, The Climate Change "Debate"
- The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health (U.S. Global Change Research Program)
- U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change
- Kyoto Protocol
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
- IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (2014)
- EPA 2016 Climate Change Web Page
- EPA 2016 Web Pages - Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation
- UNEP Climate Change Mitigation Web Page
- UNEP Climate Change Adaptation Web Page
- EU Climate Action Web Page
- Atlantic Magazine Article - Adaptation v. Mitigation
- Carbon Footprint Calculator from EPA and the Nature Conservancy
- RGGI
- EPA Report: Climate Change in the United States: Benefits of Global Action
- Papal encyclical on the Environment (Pope Francis - Laudato Si)
- NASA Climate Change Web Page
- Paris Agreement of 2015 (EU Web page with summary and documents)
- America's Pledge on Climate Change (States, cities, businesses and universities efforts)
- Americans for Carbon Dividends; Climate Leadership Council - both advocating for the Baker/Shultz plan
- The Guardian - Here's What Happens when You Try to Replicate Climate Contrarian Papers
- Skeptical Science iPhone App to debunk the climate change denial arguments
- How to Spot Fake News - International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
- Factitious - Game for Spotting Fake News
Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking)
- Sierra Club Video - Fracking 101; Energy Tomorrow Video - Modern Drilling Operations; Hydraulic Fracturing
- API Hydraulic Fracturing Primer: Unlocking America's Natural Gas Resources
- National Conference of State Legislatures: Fracking Policymaker's Guide
- Resources for the Future - The State of Shale Gas Regulation
- API Hydraulic Fracturing Video
- NY Times Hydraulic Fracturing Animation ; Fracking Diagram and Video from the BBC
- API Standards for Fracking ; Overview Document
- EPA Hydraulic Fracturing Web Page
- EPA Assessment of Fracking on Drinking Water Supplies (June 2015)
- EPA's Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking under TSCA for Fracking
- Gasland
- Washington Post article re: fracking and earthquakes
- FracFocus
- FRAC Act of 2015
- BLM Final Rule on Fracking on Federal and Indian Lands
- API Videos re: Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale Development Process
- SELC Fracking Web Page
- Union of Concerned Scientists - Fracking Information Toolkit
- Sierra Club v. Chesapeake Operating LLC (D. Okla.) - complaint
- NY EIS on Fracking
Safe Drinking Water Act / Flint Drinking Water Crisis
- Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA): A Summary of the Act and its Major Requirements” (Congressional Research Service Report)
- EPA - Understanding the Safe Drinking Water Act
- City of Winnipeg - Drinking Water Treatment Plant
- Potomac Water Filtration Plant Process Diagram
- Diagram of Water Distribution System
- Macon Water Authority - including background on the new water treatment plant, Macon's water distribution system and Amerson Waterworks Park
- Centers for Disease Control - Drinking Water Web Page
- FDA Bottled Water Web Page
- ASCE Video on Aging Infrastructure
- SDWA provisions - Primary Drinking Water Regulations (42 U.S.C. 300g-1); State Primary Enforcement Responsibilty (42 U.S.C. 300g-2)
- SDWA provisions - Enforcement (42 U.S.C. 300g-3); Variances (42 U.S.C. 300g-4)
- MCLG and MCL Rules - 40 CFR Part 141
- Lead in Flint, Michigan’s Drinking Water: Federal Regulatory Role (Congressional Research Service)
- Lead-Laced Water in Flint: A Step-By-Step Look at the Makings of a Crisis (NPR)
- What’s in Your Water - Flint and Beyond: Executive Summary (NRDC)
- Flint Water Advisory Task Force: Final Report
- EPA documents relating to Flint Drinking Water
- EPA emergency order
- EPA's Lead and Copper Rule
- NPR Interview with EPA Administrator re: Flint Drinking Water
- Development of a National Action Plan for Safe Drinking Water (EPA)
- DWMAPS
- EPA - Factoids: Drinking water and ground water statistics for 2007
- Water Use Calculator
Georgia / Florida / Alabama Water Wars
- Water Wars Interactive Timeline
- Map of the ACF and ACT Basins
- ACF Compact
- ACT Compact
- Rivers and Harbors Act of 1946
- Georgia / Tennessee Border Error (NY Times)
- Corps 2012 Opinion in Response to 11th Circuit Decision
- Special Master's Report in Florida v. Georgia
- Florida v. Georgia (Supreme Court decision - June 27, 2018)
Environmental Justice
- Executive Order 12898
- EPA's Office of Environmental Justice
- EPA's Title VI Guidance
- Executive Order 13166
- National Environmental Justice Advisory Council
- NEJAC's Model Public Participation Guidelines
- EPA Guidelines on Consideration of Environmental Justice During the Development of Regulatory Actions
- EPA - Technical Guidance for Assessing Environmental Justice in Regulatory Analysis
- Draft EJ 2020 Action Agenda
- NEJAC Recommendations re: Environmental Justice in the Permitting Process
- EJ Screen: Environmental Justice and Screening Tool