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Prepared by Cheryl Nyberg for a UW CLE,
October 13, 1999.
Starting Points
Environmental LawNet: http://www.environmentallawnet.com/
Designed by an attorney to be a "comprehensive, interactive resource for corporate
counsel and environmental compliance managers." Links to major federal laws and
regulations; federal, state, and international court and administrative agency opinions;
federal and state court rules; notices, publications, and checklists; compliance,
enforcement, and guidance documents; and related materials. Includes some original
material.
National Library for the Environment: http://www.cnie.org/nle/
Links to a wide array of environment-related sources, including Congressional Research
Service briefing books and reports; environmental journals on the web (full-text,
abstracts, and indexes); environmental laws and treaties; bibliographies, catalogs,
databases, government agencies, maps, news, photographs, and other resources.
Lexis-Nexis Web Lecture: Environmental law: http://lawschool.lexis.com/weblec/environ/index.html
A guide to major federal and other web resources on environmental law.
Key Government
Agencies
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: http://www.epa.gov/
A well-organized government site with thousands of documents. Includes a search feature
for locating specific publications or information. Offers sections for concerned citizens,
with zip code searches to find out about environmental trends and hazardous releases in
the area.
Washington Department of Ecology: http://www.wa.gov/ecology/
A collection of laws, regulations, publications, policies, guidance documents, and other
information on topics including the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA), air quality,
hazardous wastes, nuclear wastes, permits, sediments, shorelines and wetlands, solid
wastes, toxic spills, water quality and resources, and watershed management.
Washington Department of Commerce, Trade and
Economic Development, Growth Management Program: http://www.cted.wa.gov/info/lgd/growth/index.html
Contains the text of relevant laws and regulations, publications, and decisions of the
Growth Management Hearing Boards.
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Legal Indexes
and Meta-Sites - Environmental
These sites contain selective lists of links on environmental law.
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Comparative, Foreign,
and International Environmental Law
Environmental Treaties and Resource
Indicators (ENTRI): http://sedac.ciesin.org/pidb/
An excellent collection of full-text agreements, conventions, and treaties.
International Environmental Law Research: http://lib.law.washington.edu/ref/intenv.htm
A guide to print and electronic information sources prepared by Gallagher Law Library
reference librarians Mary Whisner and Peggy Roebuck Jarrett for an October 1998 course.
Covers research guides and bibliographies, directories, library catalogs, periodical
indexes, full-text sources, periodicals and yearbooks, environmental treaty compilations,
treaty indexes, international cases, and United Nations and European Union information
sources.
Primary Law and
Other Legal and Law-Related Internet Sources
Internet Legal Resources: http://lib.law.washington.edu/research/research.html
A collection of links to primary legal sources for U.S. and Washington state legal
research, including constitutions, statutes, regulations, court opinions, administrative
decisions, and court rules. Also includes selected foreign and international law sources,
legal indexes, and links to general search engines.
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