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LEGAL
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HELP
YOURSELF!
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WildLaw's site
with information on legal actions and things you can do yourself to defend
the wild.
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COURTS
AND CASES |
The
Federal Judiciary Homepage: Site with
links
to all federal courts on the Web. Includes links to all Circuit Courts
and the handful of District Courts now on the Web.
Recent
Supreme Court Decisions: Cornell's Legal Information Institute's
database containing recent (1990 -- present) U.S. Supreme Court decisions.
Here, you can sign on to a free e-mail service that will e-mail you summaries
of every Supreme Court case the day they are decided (see e-mail list below
at end of page).
1937-1975
Supreme Court Decisions: FLITE (Federal Legal Information Through
Electronics, complied by the Air Force) database of decisions contained
in U.S. Reporters 300-422.
FindLaw:
FindLaw offers an array of free resources and tools for the public, including
thousands of legal sites, cases, codes, forms, law reviews, law schools,
bar associations, law firms, experts, cle courses, and much more. |
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LAWS
AND LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH |
THOMAS:
The Search engine provided by Congress to look for currently introduced
and pending legislation. Also has links to the Code of Federal Regulations
and other useful areas.
United States Code (USC):
United
States Code (USC): A searchable version of the United States Code
sponsored by the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate
on the United States Government Printing Office web site.
United
States Code (USC) Homepage: A searchable and/or downloadable version
of the United States Code provided by the Office of the Law
Revision Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives, which prepares and
publishes the USC.
United
States Code (USC): A searchable version of the United States Code
provided by Cornell's Legal Information Institute.
Code
of Federal Regulations (CFR): A searchable version of the CFR sponsored
by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
on the United States Government Printing Office web site.
Federal
Register (FR): A searchable version of the federal government's
daily announcement vehicle sponsored by the Office of the Federal Register,
National Archives and Records Administration on the United States Government
Printing Office web site. All major proposals are published here.
Federal
Register (FR) Environmental Documents Service: A searchable version
of environmental documents published in the Federal Register. Please
note that the EPA's Federal Register - Environmental Documents service
does not go back further than October, 1994. At this site you can
also sign on to the
Federal
Register Environmental Subset e-mail lists, which will e-mail you the
full-text of selected Federal Register documents that deal with the environment
or environment-related issues the day they are published.
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CONTACT
YOUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVE |
Here are the Web sites
for the United States Senate and House of Representatives. Through them,
you can find the contact information about your senators and congressperson.
Although most of them have e-mail now, phone calls and letters are much
more effective in presenting your opinions than e-mail, as e-mail is seen
as "easy" while few people take the time to do something "hard" like write
a letter or spend the money to call.
United
States Senate
United
States House of Representatives
League
of Conservation Voters: This is where you can check to see the
voting records on the environment for all members of Congress. |
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GENERAL |
American
Bar Association: General information about lawyers and their official
sanctioning group.
Chemical
Industry Home Page: Contains EPA and OSHA regulations and documents.
FindLaw:
A very useful site with links to the codes and regulations of every state
and to most federal courts and agencies as well.
Freedom
of Information Clearinghouse:
Public
Citizen's site for information on FOIA. Includes the text of briefs
they submitted in major FOIA cases.
Law.com:
Source of up-to-the-minute legal news, information, court decisions and
e-law services with 50-state specific sites.
Material
Data Safety Sheets (MSDS): Search for hundreds of MSDS from Vermont
SIRI.
Pace
Virtual Environmental Law Library: Useful site maintained by Pace
University.
Scorecard:
Environmental Defense's very useful site for locating and analyzing the
polluters in your neighborhood, area and state.
WWW
Virtual Library - Law: Long and useful list of environmental law
resources; maintained by Indiana University School of Law.
Yahoo
Legal Directory: Links to hundreds of legal sites from Yahoo.
Yahoo
Environmental Directory: Page on the renowned Web directory covering
environmental topics. |
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ENVIRONMENTAL
GROUPS, PUBLICATIONS AND RELATED SITES |
Center
for Wildlife Law: Information on wildlife law collected by the
University of New Mexico Institute of Public Law.
CNN
Nature News
Cornell
Law School, The Legal Information Institute: Links to a variety
of legal materials, including environmental law sites and resources, regulations
and court cases.
Defenders
of Wildlife: Also includes
Grass
Roots Environmental Effectiveness Network (GREEN) pages with updates,
alerts and news.
Earthjustice
Legal Defense Fund: Formerly the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund.
EcoMall:
News and resources relating to the environment, solar energy, ecology,
activism, eco companies, and links to eco databases.
EcoNet
Endangered
Species and Wetlands Report: Contains articles about recent cases
and regulatory and legislative actions on the ESA and wetlands. Often has
the text of the latest cases.
Endangered
Species Coalition: The Endangered Species Coalition is a network
of over 350 organizations representing millions of Americans dedicated
to the preservation and recovery of endangered species.
EnviroLink:
Includes current environmental news, local opportunities for activism,
and forums to discuss environmental issues.
Environmental
Defense
Environmental
Law Center of the Vermont Law School.
Environmental
Law Institute: The Institute's collections of information from
its periodicals such as
The Environmental Law Reporter, The Environmental
Forum and the
National Wetlands Newsletter.
Environmental
News Network
GreenNet:
Covers environmental issues, peace, human rights and development groups.
Offers email and special conferences.
IGC:
Environmental Law in the USA: A very useful web site giving links
to organizations, lawyers who practice environmental law, and sources for
many laws and treaties.
Natural
Resources Defense Council
PEER:
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility maintains a good site
for government whistle blowers and others working on environmental protection.
Western
Environmental Law Center: A non-profit law firm representing citizens
groups and Native American Tribes in the West.
The
Wildlands Project: The venture on rewilding significant portions
of North America. |
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FEDERAL
GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES |
Army
Corps of Engineers: The agency responsible for issuing wetland
fill permits under the Clean Water Act.<
Centers
for Disease Control
Environmental
Protection Agency
EPA's
Envirofacts: A relational database that integrates data extracted
monthly from five facility (or site) based EPA program systems: Superfund
Data - Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability
Information System (CERCLIS); Hazardous Waste Data - Resource Conservation
and Recovery Information System (RCRIS); Toxic Release Inventory (TRI);
Water Discharge Permits - Permit Compliance System (PCS), and AIRS Facility
Subsystem - Envirofacts Aerometric Information (EF AIRS/AFS)
EPA's
Environmental Justice Program
EPA's
Laws and Regulations: A page that links you to all the federal
statutes that the EPA enforces and has programs under. These statutes are
located at Cornell's Server and are hyperlinked.
EPA's
Enviro$en$e: Enviro$en$e is an attempt to provide a single repository
for pollution prevention, compliance assurance, and enforcement information
and data bases. Included are pollution prevention case studies , technologies,
points of contact, environmental statutes, executive orders, regulations,
and compliance and enforcement policies and guidelines. A major component
of Enviro$ense is the data base umbrella architecture for "solvent alternatives."
Superfund
Records of Decision: Search the summaries of the RODs of more than
1,800 Superfund sites.
Fedworld:
Site with links to all the federal agencies. Also gives access to the National
Technical Information Service, which has tens-of-thousands of government
documents available on-line and for sale.
Fish
and Wildlife Service: Information on endangered species, national
wildlife refuges and other matters involving the FWS.
The
National Wetlands Inventory: The National Wetlands Inventory plans,
directs, coordinates, and monitors the gathering, analysis, dissemination,
and evaluation of information relating to the location, quantity, and ecological
importance of the Nation's wetlands.
Forest
Service: Information on the national forests and links to other
forest related sites and research.
Forest
Service Appeals: Where they keep appeal decision from the various
regions.
Forest
Service FOIA site: Find FS policy and rulings on FOIA requests.
Forest
Service Manual and Handbook: the inside-the-agency policies and
procedures for how they do just about everything.
National
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
Occupational
Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
United States Geological Survey: The
source
for maps and areal and satellite photographs of virtually anywhere
on the Earth. Often, maps and photos can be useful tools in surveying and
depicting environmental problems. |
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SCIENTIFIC
ORGANIZATIONS AND RESOURCES |
The
Center for Conservation Biology Network Has links to a number of
sites dealing with ecosystem management and biodiversity.
Natural
Heritage Network Central Server: Established by The Nature Conservancy
and the Association for Biodiversity Information to provide information
on the cooperative network of Natural Heritage biodiversity monitoring
programs
The
Right-to-Know Network: Site that maintains databases on releases
of environmental pollutants, such as those toxic releases required to be
inventoried by industry under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know
Act.
Society
for Conservation Biology Experts on biodiversity and ecosystem
management.
Science
Weekly updates on science research collected by the American Association
for Advancement of Science. Includes environmental research information.
The
Scientific Resource Center Gives access to The Nature Conservancy's
science programs and has links to other conservation science sites. |
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