Government resources for environmental law with links to environmental
data, the Environmental Protection Agency, national environmental
interests, environmental institutes, environmental treaties,
environmental journals, environmental research guides, and more.
Governmental Internet Resources
- EPA
- Homepage of the Environmental Protection Agency
- National Climatic Data Center
- This site contains the following publications in pdf format:
Monthly Climatic Data of the World
This publication contains monthly mean temperature, pressure,
precipitaion, vapor pressure, and sunshine for approximately 2,000 surface data
collection stations worldwide and monthly mean upper air temperatures, dew point
depressions, and wind velocities for approximately 500 observing sits.
- Storm Data
- This publications contains a chronological listing, by states of
occurences of storms and unusual weather phenomena. Reports contain information
on storm paths, deaths, injuries, and property damage. An "outstanding storms of
the month" section highlights severe weather events with photographs,
illustrations, and narratives. The December issue includes annual tornado,
lightning, flash flood, and torpical cyclone
summaries.
- Local Climatological Data
- This publication summarizes temperature, relative humidity,
precipitation, cloudiness, wind speed and direction observations for several
hundred cities in the U.S. and its territories. Most monthly publications also
contain the three hourly weather observations for that month and an hourly summary
of precipitation.
- NOAA Satellite Active Archive
- The SAA offers NOAA and DMSP Polar Orbiting Satellite
Data, of which we have the following online: AVHRR Level 1B 1978/10/19 ->
Present Global Area Coverage (GAC) 4KM Level 1B, High Resolution Picture
Transmission (HRPT) 1KM Level 1B, Local Area Coverage (LAC) 1KM Level 1B;
TOVS/ATOVS Level 1B 1979/07/02 -> Present High Resolution Infrared
Radiation Sounds (HIRS) Level 1B, Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) Level 1B,
Stratospheric Sounding Unit (SSU) Level 1B, Advanced Microwave Sounding
Unit-A (AMSU-A) Level 1B, Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-B
(AMSU-B) Level 1B; Also includes: Sea Surface Temperature Measurements,
Climate Measurements, Gridded Satellite Measurements, Aerosol Optical
Thickness Measurements and ATOVS Matchup Database.
- Sector Facility Indexing Project Home Page (SFIP)
- SFIP brings togetherenvironmental and other information from a number of data systems toproduce facility-level
profiles for five industry sectors (petroleumrefining, iron and steel
production, primary nonferrous metal refiningand smelting, pulp
manufacturing, and automobile assembly). SFIPinformation relates to
compliance and inspection history, chemicalreleases and spills,
demographics of the surrounding population andproduction.
Nongovernmental Internet Resources
- EcoWeb
- As a project of Tides, IGC shares the vision to actively
promote change toward a healthy society, one which is founded on
principals of social justice, broadly shared economic opportunity, a
robust democratic process, and sustainable environmental practices. We
believe healthy societies rely fundamentally on respect for individual
rights, the vitality of communities, and a celebration of diversity.
The Mission of IGC is to advance the work of progressive organizations and
individuals for peace, justice, economic opportunity, human rights,
democracy and environmental sustainability through strategic use of online
technologies.
- ENVIROLINK
- The EnviroLink Network was created in 1991 by Josh Knauer, while he was a freshman at
Carnegie Mellon University. Since that time, EnviroLink has grown from a
simple mailing list of 20 student activists to become one of the world's
largest environmental information clearinghouses. In addition to being an
information resource, EnviroLink provides environmental non-profits with
website hosting, automated mailing lists, interactive bulletin boards and
chat rooms, as well as other services. The majority of these services are
provided free of charge to environmental organizations.
- Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators Service
- Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)
- MegaLaw's Environmental Links
- This site points to primary materials, Court decisions,
environmental websites and organizations. There is also environmental
topic listing includes some of the following environmental topics: Air,
Cleanup, Compliance & Enforcement, Economics, Ecosystems, Emergencies,
Environmental Management, Human Health, Industry, Pesticides,
Pollutants/Toxics, Pollution Prevention, Research, Treatment & Control,
Wastes and Water.
- Right-To-Know Network
- Includes chemical fact sheets. Data from EPA, HUD, Federal Reserve, FEC, Bureau of the Census.
- Toxic Torts Litigator's Resource (TOXLAW)
- This site provides access to toxtalk mailing list archives,
toxboard bulletin board, toxlaw chem-tracker and toxlaw bookmarks
Journals and Periodicals
- Pace Environmental Law Review
- Established in 1982, the Pace Environmental Law Review (PELR)
was one of the first scholarly journals established in the then new
field of environmental law.
Primary Law
Reference Sources
Research Guides
