Environmental Law Web Links

Spring 2000 - Professor Johnson


Classes 1 and 2 - Environmental Philosophies and Values; Economics and Ecology

Page 5 - EPA report re: Air Quality Trends
Page 8 - EPA's Unfinished Business Report
Page 9 - U.S. Congress Environmental Voting Records - League of Conservation Voters
Page 45 - Asian longhorned beetle information from USDA
Chap. 1 - No Middle Way on the Environment (Atlantic Monthly article)
Chap. 1 - Greg Easterbrooke, A Moment on the Earth
 
 

BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS

Rachel Carson, Silent Spring;
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
Henry David Thoreau, Walden


Class 3 - Common Law Actions

Page 77 - Health and Environmental Effects of Sulfur Dioxide
Page 77 - Historical information about mining and development in the Ducktown region (from USGS)
Page 90 - Historical information about cholera and bacteria from Chicago's sewer system

BOOK RECOMMENDATION

Jonathan Harr - A Civil Action



Class 5 - Public Law

Page 102 - General Mining Law of 1872 - Background and reforms - (Mineral Policy Center Web site) and mine photos
Page 108 - History of EPA - Part I - from EPA's History Office
Page 108 - History of EPA - Part II - from EPA's History Office
Page 120 - Environmental Council of the States
Page 129 - Printz v. United States
Chap. 2    - Assorted International Environmental Law Links (from Prof. Johnson's E.L. seminar Web page)

BOOK LINK

Peter Langrock, Addison County Justice, Tales from a Vermont Courthouse



Class 6 - Regulation and Its Alternatives

Page 137 - Revised Green Marketing Guidelines from the FTC
Page 154 - EPA's Multimedia Enforcement Program
Page 156 - Toxic Release Inventory Information from EPA
Page 156 - Other TRI links (from Prof. Johnson's E.L. seminar Web page)
Page 156 - Toxics in Your Community (Citizens Guide to information re: h.w. and h.s. in Ga.)
Page 161 - Enterprise for the Environment Report re: "reinvention" of environmental regulation (PDF format)
Page 161 - Economics v. Equity: Do Market-Based Environmental Reforms Exacerbate Environmental Injustice?
Chap. 2   - Project XL

BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS

Stephen Breyer, Breaking the Viscious Cycle: Toward Effective Risk Regulation
Cass Sunstein, After the Rights Revolution:Reconceiving the Regulatory State


Class 8 - Basic Principles of Administrative Law

Chap. 2.C.- EPA's Environmental Appeals Board Home Page 


Class 10 - NEPA, Judicial Review and Standing

Page 839 - NEPA Computer Assisted Legal Instruction Exercise
Page 841 - Council of Environmental Quality's "NEPA NET" Web Page
Page 884 - Example of a Final EIS (Final EIS for Hanford Tank Waste Remediation)
Page 884 - Federal Register Notice for an EIS

BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS

John Cronin, Robert F. Kennedy, The Riverkeepers
Christopher D. Stone, Should Trees Have Standing?



Class 12/13 - Environmental Justice

In re Chemical Waste Management of Indiana, Inc. (EAB decision on a RCRA permit) (PDF format)
EPA's Office of Environmental Justice
EPA's Title VI Guidance
NEJAC
NEJAC Model Plan for Public Participation (PDF format)
EPA's Environmental Justice Strategy
ECONET EcoJustice Network
Rozar v. Mullis (11th Cir. 1996)
Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living v. Seif (3d Circuit decision)
GAO Report re: Demographics of Persons Living Near Waste Facilities
Sierra magazine article re: environmental justice
Sierra magazine article re: brownfields
Executive Order 13166

BOOK RECOMMENDATION

Robert Bullard, Unequal Protection, Environmental Justice and Communities of Color


Class 14 - Introduction to RCRA

Page 194 - 1999 EPA Report - Characterization of Municipal Waste
Page 212 - EPA fact sheet - RCRA requirements for hazardous waste generators
Page 212 - EPA handbook for small quantity generators of hazardous waste
Page 212 - Data on hazardous waste generators and TSD facilities (Search EPA databases)
Page 212 - EPA information re: authorization of State H.W. programs
Page 212 - EPA citizens guide to hazardous waste permitting
Page 212 - RCRA Section 7003 Enforcement Guidance


Class 16 - Identifying Hazardous Waste

Page 236 - EPA study re: need to expand characteristics of hazardous waste
Page 238 - Proposed Hazardous Waste Identification Rule (replaces mixture/derived from rules)
Page 238 - EPA's universal waste rule (Final rule)
Page 241 - Environmental Defense Fund article re: lawsuit re: Detroit incinerator (1989)
Page 241 - Environmental Defense Fund article re: Supreme Court victory in ash case 


Class 18 - Introduction to Superfund

Page 259 - 1993 CEQ Annual Report - Chapter 8 (CERCLA/RCRA) (environmental justice implications)
Page 263 - EPA fact sheet - "This is Superfund"
Page 266 - Superfund regulations (NCP = Part 300; List of haz. substs. = Part 302)
Page 266 - EPA fact sheets re: NPL sites
Page 266 - National Response Center - 2001 Incident Summaries and Monthly Briefing
Page 266 - The National Response System - EPA


Class 19 - Responsible Parties Under CERCLA

Page 276 - Information about chemicals usually found at Superfund sites
Page 281 - EPA's Brownfields Home Page
Page 281 - EPA Region 5 Brownfields Home Page 


Class 21 - Responsible Parties and Response Costs

Page 296 - EPA fact sheet re: Aidex NPL site
Page 296 - Pneumo Abex Corp. v. High Point, Thomasville, and Denton R.R. Co. (4th Cir.)

ATSDR Web Page
GAO report re: cost and availability of h.w. insurance


Class 22 - Liability under CERCLA

Page 307 - EPA fact sheet re: Picillo NPL site


Class 23 - Liability under CERCLA (continued)

Page 317 - EPA fact sheet re: Butler Tunnel NPL site
Page 320 - Superfund Administrative Reforms 


Class 25 - Pollution Prevention

EPA's Pollution Prevention Home Page
Pesticide Reduction as a means of pollution prevention
Pollution Prevention Case Studies
EPA voluntary pollution prevention programs
EPA's 33/50 program
EPA's Common Sense Initiative


Class 26 - Introduction to the Clean Water Act

Page 623 - EPA report re: water quality in the states (required by Section 305(b))
Page 628 - EPA report re: NPS success stories
Page 628 - EPA fact sheet - What we can do to prevent NPS pollution
Page 637 - National Wildlife Federation brief overview re: CWA
Page 637 - National Wildlife Federation statement re: success of CWA
Page 637 - Environmental Working Group report re: limitations of the CWA
Page 637 - EPA's effluent guideline regulations (40 CFR Subchapter N)
Page 640 - EPA's Nonpoint Source Web Page
Page 640 - EPA's Nonpoint Source Proposed Strategy
Page 640 - "Surf Your Watershed" (WQ information re: your watershed)
Page 640 - ELI report re: State nonpoint source control programs
Page 640 - Information about Pfiesteria (U. of Md. Web page)


Class 27 - Effluent Standards under the Clean Water Act

Page 695 - Pretreatment requirements in the State of North Carolina
Page 695 - Camden County, N.J. Municipal Utilities Authority Pretreatment Program
Page 695 - Overview of the Camden County, N.J. wastewater treatment process
Page 695 - Environmental Defense Fund news release re: sewage sludge (1992) 


Class 29 - Water Quality Standards

Page 700 - Georgia's water quality standards (Sec. 391-3-6-.03) (PDF format)
Page 752 - Sierra Club v. Hankinson (N.D. Ga. 1996)
Page 752 - EPA TMDL page (guidance, case studies, advisory committee)
Page 752 - Oregon DEQ fact sheet re: TMDLs


Class 30 - Wetlands

Page 734 - EPA wetlands fact sheets
Page 734 - EPA wetlands page
Page 734 - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's National Wetlands Inventory
Page 734 - Corps of Engineers - Sacramento District
Page 734 - National Wildlife Federation wetlands page
Page 735 - Corps wetlands regulations
Page 735 - EPA's wetlands regulations
Page 745 - Wetlands overview: Problems with Acreage Data Persist (GAO report)
Page 745 - Corps of Engineers fact sheet re: Identifying Wetlands
Page 745 - World Wildlife Fund report re: changes to delineation manual
Page 746 - Corps of Engineers Regulatory Guidance Letters
Page 746 - Overview of the types of wetlands permits from the Corps of Engineers
Page 746 - Summary of wetland permit decisions in Georgia
Page 746 - Permit application and information about the permit process from the Corps
Page 746 - Amended Nationwide Permits from the Corps of Engineers (pdf)
Page 750 - EPA fact sheet re: mitigation banking
Page 787 - EPA Fact sheet re: takings and wetlands regulation

BOOK RECOMMENDATION

Audubon Society Nature Guide - Wetlands


Class 33 - Environmental Enforcement

Page 985   - EPA Environmental Enforcement Policies
Page 985   - EPA's Office of Enforcement Home Page
Page 990   - EPA Audit Policy
Page 998   - EPA's FY 2000 Enforcement report
Page 999   - EPA's Supplemental Environmental Projects Policy
Page 1000 - EPA's Economic Benefit Computer Modeling Program (BEN)
Page 1009 - State enforcement - EPA report re: investigation of Pennsylvania's air enforcement program


Class 35 - Endangered Species

Page 906 - US Fish and Wildlife Service Endangered Species Home Page
Page 906 - Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
Page 906 - Sierra Club Critical Ecoregions page
Page 924 - ESA listing process (USFWS description)
Page 924 - Federal Endangered Species list
Page 924 - Environmental Defense Fund report re: status of species on original endangered species list
Page 954 - Habitat Conservation Plans
Page 954 - National Audubon Society's Task Force Report on HCPs
Page 972 - Environmental Defense Fund Report "Rebuilding the Ark" re: ESA reform
Page 972 - EDF/Princeton University study re: endangered species "hot spots"

BOOK RECOMMENDATION

Edward O. Wilson, The Diversity of Life