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  Environmental Law News
While area zinc mines have a good environmental track record, according to state officials and regulatory reports, abandoned zinc mines in the tri-state area of Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri caused one of the...
The Conservation Law Foundation is asking a judge to stall project construction until the department takes a serious and complete look at the environmental impact of widening the highway from two lanes to four...
The Environmental Protection Agency is investigating possible violations of federal environmental laws by a pesticide company that operates near downtown St.
www.topix.net /law/environmental   (736 words)

  
  Energy Sector >> Legislation >> Environmental Law
Environmental protection consists of all activities that contribute to the protection of the environment and do not cause damage to the environment, which ensure a clean and pollution-free environment and which do not cause negative impacts to human, animal, plant and ecological health.
Environmental mitigation means the prevention or response to the occurrences, together with the restoration and improvement of the impacts of the environment to its former, undisturbed state by establishing and fulfilling environmental quality standards, regulations and measures.
Environmental inspection means the supervision of the environmental protection, mitigation, restoration activities, and exploitation and use of the natural resources, and pollution control activities in accordance with the legislation for ensuring effective environmental protection.
www.poweringprogress.org /energy_sector/environmental_law.htm   (4060 words)

  
 Environmental Law School, Schools, Program, Institute, Top
Capital's Environmental Law concentration is directed by Professor Dennis Hirsch who is a 1991 graduate of Yale Law School and an expert on the Clean Air Act and on environmental policy innovation.
Capital's concentration in Environmental Law is a comprehensive program that exposes students to coursework in air, water, hazardous waste and land use law and policy.
A highlight of the curriculum is the Environmental Practicum which incorporates a skills-building approach to the study of Environmental Law.
www.law.capital.edu /academic/envcon.asp   (367 words)

  
 Texas Environmental Law   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The laws regulate numerous activities ranging from the handling of dangerous chemicals and the disposal of toxic waste to the building of new facilities and the rights of workers to know which chemicals are present in the workplace.
Laws regulating air pollution are designed to limit industry emission of airborne pollutants that may be harmful to people, plants, and animals.
Some categories of pollutants or environmental nuisance that might fit into one of the above broad areas of environmental concern are treated separately under the law because of some special characteristic of the pollutant or the generator, or because political pressures force the government to treat these pollutants or nuisances differently.
www.weblocator.com /attorney/tx/law/b23.html   (3660 words)

  
 Environmental Law
CIEL The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) is a public interest not-for-profit environmental law firm that deals with the issues of global commons, biodiversity and wildlife, international financial institutions, trade and the environment, and policy analysis and capacity building.
Environmental Hydrosystems Environmental HydroSystems, Inc. (EHI) is a water resources and environmental consulting firm that specializes in the analysis of hydrologic systems and in the development and application of scientific software to support such analysis.
Environmental Medicine Environmental medicine is a set of links to the University of Chicago's access to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry's (ATSDR) case study on lead.
www.legalethics.com /pa/enviro/environ.htm   (3923 words)

  
 EnviroEducation.com - Environmental Majors and Programs - Environmental Law
Environmental Law is a collection of principles, rules and regulations dealing with the interaction of human society and nature.
The environmental law system is an organized way of using all of the laws in our legal system to minimize, prevent, punish or remedy the consequences of actions which damage or threaten the environment, public health and safety.
Environmental lawyers can now be found in nearly all major law firms, in federal, state and local environmental agencies, and on the staff or the board for a great many nonprofit environmental organizations.
www.enviroeducation.com /majors-programs/env-law.html   (490 words)

  
 Environmental Law
Environmental law is a complex mix of federal, state and local laws, regulations, policy choices, science, and health concerns.
Researching environmental law requires an awareness that this area of the law is more than just a collection of laws and regulations and, is in fact, a constantly changing legal system.
Environmental Law Net is a website with an extensive collection of environmental law material created by David Blackmar an environmental lawyer with the international law firm of Greenberg Traurig LLP.
www.law.duke.edu /lib/researchguides/env.html   (4121 words)

  
 Environmental Law
Stasch considers the presumption against extraterritorial application of domestic laws as it generally applies in the environmental law realm to prevent the enforcement of U.S. environmental laws against American actors abroad.
Environmental Law is published quarterly by the students of Lewis & Clark Law School, 10015 S.W. Terwilliger Blvd., Portland, OR 97219, in the Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter.
Unless a particular piece in Environmental Law indicates otherwise, the author of each piece in the journal has granted all interested readers the right to reproduce and distribute multiple copies of the piece for classroom use in classes at institutions of higher education.
www.lclark.edu /org/envtl   (797 words)

  
 Chicago-Kent College of Law: Program in Environmental and Energy Law
The Clinic offers environmental law students the opportunity to learn by serving people who, but for the Clinic, would be unrepresented in environmental matters that directly affect the health, safety and welfare of their families and communities.
The Chicago Environmental Law Clinic is the result of a May, 1999 agreement between the Chicago Legal Clinic and Chicago-Kent to form a Clinic to begin operating in Fall, 1999.
The Environmental Law Clinic’s portion of the space is a former printing shop reconstructed into an advanced law office that includes three large offices, two smaller offices, multiple work stations and a large conference room.
www.kentlaw.edu /academics/peel/CELC-profile.html   (2123 words)

  
 Rutgers School of Law - Newark - Clinics - Environmental Law
The Rutgers Environmental Law Clinic serves two vital and interdependent functions: providing an opportunity for law students to practice environmental advocacy and serving New Jersey's environmental community through trial and appellate litigation, administrative advocacy and policy development.
As a result, the Clinic has litigated many of the most important environmental cases in the State on topics as varied as land use/sprawl, transportation, clean water, clean air, environmental justice, endangered species, hazardous waste site remediation, public access to beaches and other public lands, open space, parkland preservation and energy policy.
As the environmental community's de facto law firm, the clinic's attorneys and students enable us to win in ways that would otherwise be unimaginable.
law.newark.rutgers.edu /clinics_environment.html   (1218 words)

  
 The Environmental Law Center at Vermont Law School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Environmental law and policy are about change, and since change is often threatening to those who benefit from the status quo, it is no surprise that consensus on environmental issues is difficult to achieve.
An environmental professional must understand that sound environmental policy is formed at the intersection of politics, law, science, economics, and ethics.
In the Environmental Law program students explore the ethical basis for environmental policy, develop a knowledge of ecological concepts, and consider both international issues, and standards and processes embodied in U.S. environmental law.
www.vermontlaw.edu /elc/index.cfm   (579 words)

  
 Texas Southern University  > Institutes & Programs  > Environmental Law & Justice Center
The Environmental Law and Justice Center is a public interest, environmental project founded in 1994 to lend the expertise and commitment of the Civil Rights and Environmental Movement to disenfranchised minority and low-income communities in Texas and neighboring states throughout the South, burdened by various environmental abuses.
The Environmental Law and Justice Center is committed to the idea that quality education and dedicated community services to the underrepresented in our society must work together, whenever feasible, to advance the concept of equal justice under the law.
She provides instruction in federal and state environmental law, as well as develops and directs informational community meetings and workshops.
www.tsu.edu /academics/law/programs/environmental.asp   (870 words)

  
 Welcome to Pace Law School
Our hallmark is a dedicated faculty who have been pioneers in establishing environmental law and who continue to serve as national and world-wide leaders.
The programs are focused on four areas of strength: pollution laws and enforcement; international and comparative environmental laws; land use; and practical experience highlighted by our clinical and externship programs and Energy Project.
Pace Law School's Environmental Law Programs are testimony to a long-standing commitment to a better, environmentally sounder and sustainable world through law.
www.law.pace.edu /environment   (206 words)

  
 Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review - Boston College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Environmental Affairs is designed as a multidisciplinary scholarly journal which seeks to develop further an intelligent interchange on the recognition and solution of environmental problems.
Environmental Affairs seeks to remedy the inadequacies of separate disciplinary structures and keep all its readers advised of significant related developments in other areas of learning.
Environmental Affairs is intended to be a forum: A forum for the interchange of research opinion and commentary of scientists of various disciplines, administrators, planners, educators and lawyers.
www.bc.edu /schools/law/lawreviews/environmental   (385 words)

  
 Environmental law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Environmental law is a body of law, which is a system of complex and interlocking statutes, common law, treaties, conventions, regulations and policies which seek to protect the natural environment which may be affected, impacted or endangered by human activities.
Some environmental laws regulate the quantity and nature of impacts of human activities: for example, setting allowable levels of pollution.
In recent years, environmental law has become seen as a critical means of promoting sustainable development (or "sustainability").
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Environmental_law   (381 words)

  
 Open Directory - Society: Law: Legal Information: Environmental Law   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Environmental and Land Use Section - Florida Bar - Offering articles on the subjects of environmental law and land use areas, links, and information on section projects and events.
Environmental Law - Statutes, Regulations, and Help - WildLaw's compilation of information and advice on U.S. environmental law, written primarily for citizens who want to challenge government actions.
Environmental Law Overview - Overview of the topic, with emphasis on U.S. federal and state jurisdictions, plus internet links to key primary and secondary sources.
dmoz.org /Society/Law/Legal_Information/Environmental_Law   (609 words)

  
 Columbia Law : Environmental Law   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Students in the Environmental Law Clinic represent local, regional, and national environmental and community organizations working to solve critical environmental challenges facing the metropolitan region.
Columbia Law School emerged as a leader in the study of environmental law in the 1970's.
The student-edited Columbia Journal of Environmental Law is designed to be a valuable aid to the legal community committed to the preservation and improvement of the environment.
www.law.columbia.edu /focusareas/env_portal   (206 words)

  
 Environmental Law
DELPF is one of the Law School's academic journals and is staffed by students on a volunteer basis from both the Law School and the Nicholas School of the Environment.
Professors at the Law School who teach environmental law and related classes are Jonathan Wiener and Christopher Schroeder.
The J.D./M.A. is intended for students who primarily identify themselves as attorneys, whether in environmental law practice or in other positions, but who wish to increase their knowledge in one or more areas of environmental management.
www.law.duke.edu /student/act/enviro/curriculum.htm   (2560 words)

  
 International environmental law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
International environmental law is the body of international law that concerns the protection of the global environment.
Originally associated with the principle that states must not permit the use of their territory in such a way as to injure the territory of other states, international environmental law has since been expanded by a plethora of legally-binding international agreements.
As with international law, the chief guiding principle is that of sovereignty, which means that a country (state) has full power in its own territory to do as it pleases (subject to international laws it has agreed to).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/International_environmental_law   (1063 words)

  
 Southeastern Environmental Law Journal | USC School of Law
The Southeastern Environmental Law Journal (SELJ), formerly the South Carolina Environmental Law Journal, is published semi-annually by a student editorial board at the University of South Carolina, School of Law and distributed to law schools, judges, and attorneys across the nation.
The goal of SELJ is to provide the legal community with a balanced presentation of environmental topics and an illustration of the pervasiveness of environmental law in all areas of practice.
SELJ publishes articles on a broad range of environmental topics, such as resource use and regulation, environmental policy, science and technology control, law and economics, international environmental law, and other topics relating to law and the environment.
www.law.sc.edu /elj   (181 words)

  
 Pace Environmental Law Review: New York Law School, located in New York 20 miles north of NY City. Environmental Law.
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.
Service on law reviews such as PELR is considered a valuable credential by law firms and government agencies alike, when interviewing to hire new lawyers.
In collaboration with the law faculty, the Center for Environmental Legal Studies and the Pace Environmental Law Society, PELR sponsors and organizes an annual colloquium on environmental legal issues.
www.pace.edu /lawschool/pelr/index.html   (325 words)

  
 West Coast Environmental Law
West Coast Environmental Law is calling on Canada to meet, at a minimum, the European Union's recent standards with clear targets backed by strong legislation.
In a letter to the Premier sent today, a trio of BC environmental law organizations urge the provincial government to give its emissions reductions targets the force of law.
West Coast Environmental Law is the recipient of a $20,000 Capacity Grant from Vancity.
www.wcel.org   (559 words)

  
 FindLaw for Students: Academic Law Journals and Law Reviews: Environmental Law Journals
Environmental Lawyer George Washington University and the ABA.
Hastings West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law and Policy University of California, Hastings.
Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation University of Oregon.
stu.findlaw.com /journals/environmental.html   (340 words)

  
 EUROPA - Environment - Environmental Law
It is the Commission’s responsibility to ensure that Community law is implemented and applied correctly by the 25 Member States of the EU.
These legislative measures cover all environmental sectors, including water, air, nature, waste, and chemicals, and others which deal with cross-cutting issues such as access to environmental information, and public participation in environmental decision-making.
For example, it may consider that whilst there is sufficient evidence of a breach of Community environment law, such action may not be appropriate or necessary if the Member State has undertaken to remedy the breach.
ec.europa.eu /environment/law   (694 words)

  
 Laws and Regulations - Major Environmental Laws
A more comprehensive list of laws (as of 1995) administered by EPA is available.
The U.S. Code is the official record of all federal laws and contains the general and permanent laws of the United States.
For more recent laws one must turn to the uncompiled Public Laws as passed by Congress available through the Thomas Legislative Information Web site.
www.epa.gov /epahome/laws.htm   (375 words)

  
 Environmental Law
Environmental Law (U. of Indiana) - At present, this is one of the best sites for links to legal environmental documents.
Environmental Sites on the Internet (Larsgöran Standberg) - An excellent reference site (updated once a week!).On the Index Page "you will find an alphabetic subject index to a huge collection of environmental subjects from different homepages and gopher menues on the Net".
The Humans and Environment category includes Environmental Agreements and Legislation (where focus is on the Australian one).
www2.spfo.unibo.it /spolfo/ENVLAW.htm   (1208 words)

  
 ASIL Electronic Resource Guide
Like many other branches of international law, international environmental law is interdisciplinary, intersecting and overlapping with numerous other areas of research, including economics, political science, ecology, human rights and navigation/admiralty.
The National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade is a non-profit research and educational corporation whose purpose is to facilitate trade and investment in the Western Hemisphere.
Environmental law journals have embraced electronic publication, and a number provide either the full text or abstracts of articles on the Internet.
www.asil.org /resource/env1.htm   (6084 words)

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