Environmental Law Web Links

Spring 1997 - Professor Johnson


Class 1 - Environmental Philosophies and Values

Page 4 - 1995 EPA report re: Air Quality Trends
Page 10 - U.S. Congress Environmental Voting Records - League of Conservation Voters
Page 16 - Information on Environmental Philosophies
Chap. 1 - No Middle Way on the Environment (Atlantic Monthly article)


Class 3 - Common Law Actions

Page 77 - Health and Environmental Effects of Sulfur Dioxide
Page 77 - Background Information about Copper and its effects
Page 80 - California Anti-SLAPP project  



Class 5 - Public Law

Page 103 - General Mining Law of 1872 - Background and reforms - (Mineral Policy Center Web site)
Page 103 - Mining Activist's Guide to reform of the 1872 Mining Law
Page 103 - People for the West's views on the General Mining Law of 1872
Page 119 - Printz v. United States
Page 120 - Environmental Council of the States
Page 126 - Assorted International Environmental Law Links (from Prof. Johnson's E.L. seminar Web page)



Class 6 - Regulation and Its Alternatives

Page 134 - Revised Green Marketing Guidelines from the FTC
Page 149 - Toxic Release Inventory Information from EPA
Page 149 - Other TRI links (from Prof. Johnson's E.L. seminar Web page)
Page 149 - Toxics in Your Community (Citizens Guide to information re: h.w. and h.s. in Ga.)
Page 178 - EPA's Multimedia Enforcement Program
Page 178 - Project XL


Class 8 - Basic Principles of Administrative Law

Page 750 - EPA's Environmental Appeals Board Home Page 


Class 10 - NEPA, Judicial Review and Standing

Page 1109 - NEPA Computer Assisted Legal Instruction Exercise
Page 1109 - Council of Environmental Quality's "NEPA NET" Web Page
Page 1109 - Example of a Final EIS (Final EIS for Hanford Tank Waste Remediation)
Page 1109 - Federal Register Notice for an EIS 


Class 12 - Introduction to RCRA

Page 195 - 1996 EPA Report - Characterization of Municipal Waste
Page 214 - EPA fact sheet - RCRA requirements for hazardous waste generators
Page 214 - EPA handbook for small quantity generators of hazardous waste
Page 214 - Data on hazardous waste generators and TSD facilities (Search EPA databases)
Page 214 - EPA fact sheet re: Authorization of State H.W. programs
Page 214 - EPA citizens guide to hazardous waste permitting
Page 214 - RCRA Section 7003 Enforcement Guidance


Class 14 - Identifying Hazardous Waste

Page 237 - EPA study re: need to expand characteristics of hazardous waste
Page 239 - Proposed Hazardous Waste Identification Rule (replaces mixture/derived from rules)
Page 239 - 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 16 - Introduction to Superfund

Page 275 - 1993 CEQ Annual Report - Chapter 8 (CERCLA/RCRA)
Page 279 - EPA fact sheet - "This is Superfund"
Page 282 - Superfund regulations (NCP = Part 300; List of haz. substs. = Part 302)
Page 282 - EPA fact sheets re: NPL sites
Page 282 - Biggest spills of hazardous substances reported to EPA in 1996 


Class 17 - Responsible Parties Under CERCLA

Page 293 - Information about chemicals usually found at Superfund sites
Page 298 - EPA's Brownfields Home Page
Page 298 - EPA Region 5 Brownfields Home Page 


Class 18 - Responsible Parties Under CERCLA (continued)

Page 304 - United States v. CDMG Realty (3d Circuit 1996) 


Class 19 - Responsible Parties and Response Costs

Page 315 - EPA fact sheet re: Aidex NPL site
Page 369 - ATSDR Web Page

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

Class 20 - Liability under CERCLA

Page 345 - EPA fact sheet re: Picillo NPL site
Page 337 - EPA fact sheet re: SCRDI Bluff Road NPL site 


Class 21 - Liability under CERCLA (continued)

Page 354 - EPA fact sheet re: Butler Tunnel NPL site
Page 387 - Superfund Administrative Reforms 


Class 22 - 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 23 - Environmental Justice

Rozar v. Mullis (11th Cir. 1996)
EPA's Office of Environmental Justice
EPA's Environmental Justice Strategy
ECONET EcoJustice Network
GAO Report re: Demographics of Persons Living Near Waste Facilities
Sierra magazine article re: environmental justice
Sierra magazine article re: brownfields 


Class 25 - Introduction to the Clean Water Act

Page 873 - EPA fact sheet - Basic facts about water
Page 873 - EPA report re: water quality in the states
Page 880 - 1994 EPA report re: NPS success stories
Page 880 - EPA fact sheet - What we can do to prevent NPS pollution
Page 885 - EPA brief overview re: CWA
Page 885 - National Wildlife Federation brief overview re: CWA
Page 885 - National Wildlife Federation statement re: success of CWA
Page 885 - Environmental Working Group report re: limitations of the CWA
Page 887 - EPA's effluent guideline regulations (40 CFR Subchapter N)
Page 890 - EPA's Nonpoint Source Web Page
Page 890 - EPA's Nonpoint Source Proposed Strategy
Page 890 - "Surf Your Watershed" (WQ information re: your watershed)
Page 890 - ELI report re: State nonpoint source control programs
Page 890 - Information about Pfiesteria (U. of Md. Web page)


Class 26 - Effluent Standards under the Clean Water Act

Page 933 - Pretreatment requirements in the State of North Carolina (PDF format)
Page 933 - Camden County, N.J. Municipal Utilities Authority Pretreatment Program
Page 933 - Overview of the Camden County, N.J. wastewater treatment process
Page 935 - Environmental Defense Fund news release re: sewage sludge (1992) 


Class 28 - Water Quality Standards

Page 936 - Georgia's water quality standards (Sec. 391-3-6-.03) (PDF format)
Page 943 - Sierra Club v. Hankinson (N.D. Ga. 1996)
Page 943 - EPA TMDL page (guidance, case studies, advisory committee)
Page 943 - Oregon DEQ fact sheet re: TMDLs
Page 943 - North carolina watershed management plan for the Neuse River Basin (TMDLs, etc.) 


Class 29 - Wetlands

Page 975 - EPA wetlands fact sheets
Page 975 - EPA wetlands page
Page 975 - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's National Wetlands Inventory
Page 975 - Corps of Engineers - Sacramento District
Page 975 - National Wildlife Federation position paper re: wetlands in the 105th Congress
Page 977 - Corps of Engineers fact sheet re: Identifying Wetlands
Page 977 - Corps wetlands regulations
Page 977 - EPA's wetlands regulations
Page 977 - World Wildlife Fund report re: changes to delineation manual
Page 987 - Corps of Engineers Regulatory Guidance Letters
Page 987 - Overview of the types of wetlands permits from the Corps of Engineers
Page 987 - Summary of wetland permit decisions in Georgia
Page 988 - Permit application and information about the permit process from the Corps
Page 988 - Amended Nationwide Permits from the Corps of Engineers
Page 992 - EPA fact sheet re: mitigation banking
Page 995 - EPA Fact sheet re: takings and wetlands regulation 


Class 31 - Environmental Enforcement

Page 1039 - EPA Environmental Enforcement Policies
Page 1039 - EPA's Office of Enforcement Home Page
Page 1043 - EPA Audit Policy
Page 1049 - State enforcement - EPA report re: investigation of Pennsylvania's air enforcement program
Page 1051 - EPA's FY 1995 Enforcement report
Page 1054 - EPA's Supplemental Environmental Projects Policy
Page 1056 - EPA's Economic Benefit Computer Modeling Program (BEN) 


Class 33 - Endangered Species

Page 1181 - US Fish and Wildlife Service Endangered Species Home Page
Page 1181 - USFWS Slide Show re: ESA
Page 1181 - Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
Page 1181 - National Wildlife Federation fact sheet re: why save endangered species
Page 1181 - National Wildlife Federation fact sheets re: Endangered Species issues
Page 1181 - Sierra Club article re: endangered species and Critical Ecoregions
Page 1198 - ESA listing process (USFWS description)
Page 1198 - Federal Endangered Species list
Page 1198 - Environmental Defense Fund report re: status of species on original endangered species list
Page 1220 - Habitat Conservation Plans
Page 1241 - Environmental Defense Fund Report "Rebuilding the Ark" re: ESA reform
Page 1241 - EDF/Princeton University study re: endangered species "hot spots"