ENVIRONMENTAL LAW SEMINAR WEB LINKS

Fall 1999 - Professor Johnson


Class 1: Introduction

       Project XL
        National Center for Environmental Economics
        Organizations with an Economy and the Environment focus
        The Nature Conservancy
        Environmental Defense Fund
        Economics v. Equity (my 1998 article)
        EPA's Pay as You Throw Web Page


Class 2: EPCRA, PPA, and SEPs

        Surf Your Watershed
        Sector Facility Indexing Project
        Center for Environmental Information and Statistics
        Consumer Labeling Initiative
        Safe Drinking Water Act Right-to-Know amendments
        FTC's green marketng guidelines
        EPA's TRI Home Page
        EPA's 1999 TRI Public Data Report (PDF format)
        EPA's 1999 TRI State Fact Sheets (PDF format)
        Fact Sheets on TRI Chemicals (ATSDR)
       Fact Sheets on TRI Chemicals (EPA)
       Search EPA EnviroFacts Database for TRI information
       Search EPA EnviroFacts Database for other information
       Search RTK Net Database for TRI information
       Map TRI facilities
       EPA's Pollution Prevention Home Page
       EPA's OECA SEP Home Page
       Search EPA's OECA SEP Database


Class 3: Public Lands

       Department of Interior Home Page
       1996 Public Lands Statistics Report (BLM)
       Facts about Public Lands Administered by BLM
       BLM Annual Report - 1999
       DOI Proposal to amend mining regulations
       Forest Service Home Page
       Forest Service Sustainable Development Page
       National Forest Management Plans under the NFMA
       National Forest Management Act
       CATO Institute Report - Should Congress Transfer Federal Lands to States?
       Salvage Timber Law Report (GAO)
       Sierra Club Home page re: Forestry Issues


Class 4: Clean Air Act - Background and Structure

       EPA's Air Quality Web Page
       Background Information on Criteria Pollutants
       Health and Environmental Effects of Particulates
       Revised Ozone and Particulate Standards
       Health and Environmental Effects of Ozone
       List of Hazardous Air Pollutants
       EPA's Air Toxics Web Page
       Search EPA Databases for Air Quality Information


Class 5: Clean Air Act - The regulatory process; Risk assessment; CBA

       Environmental Health Threats to Children (NIH paper)
        Executive Order 13045 - Protection of Children from Envtl. Risks
        EPA's Revised Ozone and Particulate NAAQSs
        Opposition to new standards (Regulation.Org)
        Recent studies on the health effects of ozone and particulates (Am. Lung Assoc.)
        American Trucking Associations v. EPA


Class 6: Clean Air Act - Permits and Performance Standards; Emissions Trading

       Overview of the Acid Rain program (EPA Web site)
       Overview of the SO2 trading program (EPA Web site)
       SO2 Auction Results (1993 - 2001)
       EPA Progress Report on the Acid Rain Program
       Acid rain regulations
       EPA Compliance Report for Acid Rain Program
       Emissions Marketing Association Web site (incls. model emissions sale agreement)
 

Class 7: Ozone Depletion, Global Warming and International Pollution Issues

       World Resources Institute Report re: Greenhouse Gas Reduction Efforts by Developing Countries
       Sierra Club Global Warming Information
       World Wildlife Federation Climate Change Web Site
       The Science of Ozone Depletion (EPA page)
       Ozone Regulations and Enforcement Information
       The Montreal Protocol
       UN Development Program Assistance to Developing Countries under the Montreal Protocol
       The UV Index (Background and the latest measurements)
       NAFTA Implementation - Environmental Effects (US Trade Representative Office Study) (PDF format)


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