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Environmental Law Seminar Web Links
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  

 
Pollution Taxes
  • Environmental Taxes (EPA Report)  
  • OECD Guide to Environmental Taxes  
  • Gas Guzzler Tax  
  • Grazing Fees - Background 
  • Current Grazing Fee Rates    
  • Congressional Budget Office Study: Policy Options for Reducing CO2 Emissions 
  • Pay As You Throw (EPA)  
  • Congestion Pricing Primer (DOT)     

 
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   
  • 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)   
  • Florida v. Georgia (Supreme Court decision - April 1, 2021)

 
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