Environmental Law

Government resources for environmental law with links to environmental data, the Environmental Protection Agency, national environmental interests, environmental institutes, environmental treaties, environmental journals, environmental research guides, and more.

Governmental Internet Resources

EPA

Homepage of the Environmental Protection Agency
National Climatic Data Center

This site contains the following publications in pdf format: Monthly Climatic Data of the World This publication contains monthly mean temperature, pressure, precipitaion, vapor pressure, and sunshine for approximately 2,000 surface data collection stations worldwide and monthly mean upper air temperatures, dew point depressions, and wind velocities for approximately 500 observing sits.

Storm Data

This publications contains a chronological listing, by states of occurences of storms and unusual weather phenomena. Reports contain information on storm paths, deaths, injuries, and property damage. An "outstanding storms of the month" section highlights severe weather events with photographs, illustrations, and narratives. The December issue includes annual tornado, lightning, flash flood, and torpical cyclone summaries.

Local Climatological Data

This publication summarizes temperature, relative humidity, precipitation, cloudiness, wind speed and direction observations for several hundred cities in the U.S. and its territories. Most monthly publications also contain the three hourly weather observations for that month and an hourly summary of precipitation.
NOAA Satellite Active Archive

The SAA offers NOAA and DMSP Polar Orbiting Satellite Data, of which we have the following online: AVHRR Level 1B 1978/10/19 -> Present Global Area Coverage (GAC) 4KM Level 1B, High Resolution Picture Transmission (HRPT) 1KM Level 1B, Local Area Coverage (LAC) 1KM Level 1B; TOVS/ATOVS Level 1B 1979/07/02 -> Present High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounds (HIRS) Level 1B, Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) Level 1B, Stratospheric Sounding Unit (SSU) Level 1B, Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (AMSU-A) Level 1B, Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-B (AMSU-B) Level 1B; Also includes: Sea Surface Temperature Measurements, Climate Measurements, Gridded Satellite Measurements, Aerosol Optical Thickness Measurements and ATOVS Matchup Database.
Sector Facility Indexing Project Home Page (SFIP)

SFIP brings togetherenvironmental and other information from a number of data systems toproduce facility-level profiles for five industry sectors (petroleumrefining, iron and steel production, primary nonferrous metal refiningand smelting, pulp manufacturing, and automobile assembly). SFIPinformation relates to compliance and inspection history, chemicalreleases and spills, demographics of the surrounding population andproduction.

Nongovernmental Internet Resources

EcoWeb

As a project of Tides, IGC shares the vision to actively promote change toward a healthy society, one which is founded on principals of social justice, broadly shared economic opportunity, a robust democratic process, and sustainable environmental practices. We believe healthy societies rely fundamentally on respect for individual rights, the vitality of communities, and a celebration of diversity. The Mission of IGC is to advance the work of progressive organizations and individuals for peace, justice, economic opportunity, human rights, democracy and environmental sustainability through strategic use of online technologies.
ENVIROLINK

The EnviroLink Network was created in 1991 by Josh Knauer, while he was a freshman at Carnegie Mellon University. Since that time, EnviroLink has grown from a simple mailing list of 20 student activists to become one of the world's largest environmental information clearinghouses. In addition to being an information resource, EnviroLink provides environmental non-profits with website hosting, automated mailing lists, interactive bulletin boards and chat rooms, as well as other services. The majority of these services are provided free of charge to environmental organizations.
Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators Service

Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)
MegaLaw's Environmental Links

This site points to primary materials, Court decisions, environmental websites and organizations. There is also environmental topic listing includes some of the following environmental topics: Air, Cleanup, Compliance & Enforcement, Economics, Ecosystems, Emergencies, Environmental Management, Human Health, Industry, Pesticides, Pollutants/Toxics, Pollution Prevention, Research, Treatment & Control, Wastes and Water.
Right-To-Know Network

Includes chemical fact sheets. Data from EPA, HUD, Federal Reserve, FEC, Bureau of the Census.
Toxic Torts Litigator's Resource (TOXLAW)

This site provides access to toxtalk mailing list archives, toxboard bulletin board, toxlaw chem-tracker and toxlaw bookmarks

Journals and Periodicals

Pace Environmental Law Review

Established in 1982, the Pace Environmental Law Review (PELR) was one of the first scholarly journals established in the then new field of environmental law.

Primary Law

Reference Sources

Research Guides

Environmetnal Justice: hazardous Waste Sites, Local Communities, and Census Data March 1999, by Grace York
Findlaw's Environmental Page

This site provides access to Summaries of Environmental Law, Environmental Law Documents, Briefs, Articles & Books, Environmental Databases, journals, newsletters and government documents.
A Pathfinder to Information on The Endangered Species Act of 1973 By Mary Kilpatrick

This pathfinder is intended to provide pointers to information on the federal Endangered Species Act of 1973. The pathfinder also includes some information on Maryland protection of endangered species. This pathfinder is selective rather than comprehensive. Resources have been selected and annotated to provide an overview of the range of legal materials available related to the Endangered Species Act of 1973.