West-Northwest Links

State Environmental Law Resources

• California Environmental Law, Regulation and Policy

• California Government Attorney's Homepage

• California Land Use Planning Law and Policy

• California Water Law and Policy

• California Environmental Education

Major International Environmental Law Treaties & Resources

• The Rio Declaration - An outline important guiding principles for the world's nations.

• Stockholm 1972 - The first major international environmental law conference.

• The Kyoto Protocol - Treaty addressing global warming and greenhouse gas emissions.

• Agenda 21 - Established "sustainable development" as a policy goal for international environmental law.

• Web Library - Contains the full-text of environment-related treaties, international agreements, and international cases. Collections of environmental treaties are linked from the international primary law section of the Web Library's Environmental Law page. 

• CIESIN's Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators.

• Primary Law Worldwide - General collections of treaties and international cases.

USEPA Environmental Law Resources (from USEPA website)

• Introduction - Description of how laws and regulations come to be, what they are, and where to find them.

• EPA Dockets - EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) is an electronic public docket and on-line comment system designed to expand access to documents in EPA’s major dockets.

• Current Legislation in Congress - Current legislation before the U.S. Congress, Congressional Committees, and uncompiled Public Laws.

• U.S. Code - Official Record of all U.S. Laws.

• Regulations and Proposed Rules - New regulations, proposed rules, the Federal Register, dockets, and the regulatory agenda of future regulations.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Federal regulations codified in the Code of Federal Regulations and additional material related to Title 40: Protection of Environment.

• Non-Binding Guidance Documents - A collection of non-binding guidance materials issued by EPA Headquarters offices since January 1, 1999. The collection includes documents issued to Regions, states, and/or the regulated community which explain what must be done to meet environmental requirements or explain how EPA will exercises its discretion in implementing statutory or regulatory requirements.

General Environmental Law Resources

• Online Law Libraries - Through the CERES website.

• Environmental Law Materials from the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School.

• FindLaw's Environmental Law Index - Links to environmental materials, government resources, mailing lists, and other WWW sites.

Environmental Journals and Programs

• Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation (University of Oregon)

• Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy

• Environmental Law (Lewis & Clark)

• Ecology Law Quarterly (University of California, Berkeley)

  Georgetown International Environmental Law Review

• Harvard Environmental Law Review

• Journal of Environmental Law (Oxford Press)

• Buffalo Environmental Law Journal

• Land & Water Law Review (University of Wyoming)

• NYU Environmental Law Journal

• Pace Interactive Earth Law Journal

• Tulane Environmental Law Journal

• UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy

Federal Environmental Statutes and Statements

• NEPA - National Environmental Policy Act - NEPA is the basic national charter for protection of the environment. It establishes policy, sets goals, and provides means for carrying out the policy.

• CAA - The Clean Air Act

• CWA - The Clean Water Act

• CERCLA - Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA or Superfund) 

• EPCRA - The Emergency Planning & Community Right-To-Know Act 

• ESA - The Endangered Species Act

• FIFRA - Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act

• FFDCA  - Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act

• FQPA  - Food Quality Protection Act

• FOIA  - The Freedom of Information Act

• OSHA  - The Occupational Safety and Health Act

• OPA - The Oil Pollution Act of 1990

• PPA -The Pollution Prevention Act

• RCRA - The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

• SDWA  - The Safe Drinking Water Act

• SARA  - The Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA)

• TSCA  - The Toxic Substances Control Act

California Environmental Statutes

• California Environmental Quality Act

• Natural Community Conservation Planning Act

• California Land Conservation Act (Williamson Act)

• California Endangered Species Act

• California Coastal Act (CCA)