Animal Welfare and Animal Rights

• Americans for Medical Progress Education Foundation (information on lab animal issues)
• Animal Legal Defense Fund
• Animal Rights Law Project (Rutgers University School of Law)
• Animal Welfare Act, Regulations, and Standards (hosted by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture)
• Animal Welfare Information Center (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture)
  • Animal Legislation and Policies Home Page
• Animal Welfare Position Statements of the American Veterinary Medical Association
• Animal Welfare vs. Animal Rights: What's the Difference? (Summary by the Fur Commission)
• Association of Veterinarians for Animal Rights
• Fur Commission
• Humane Society of the United States
• Lab Animal Magazine: Information, Ideas, Methods & Materials for the Animal Research Professional
• National Association for Biomedical Research
• Marine Mammal Protection Act
• National Institutes of Health Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
• State Animal Cruelty Statutes (hosted by the Animal Rights Law Project at Rutgers University School of Law)
• State Hunter Harassment Statutes (hosted by the Animal Rights Law Project at Rutgers University School of Law)

Chesapeake Bay/Maryland Resources

• Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay
• Chesapeake Bay Commission - A Tri-State Advisory Commission Serving Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia
• Chesapeake Bay Foundation -- Save the Bay
• Chesapeake Bay Program
• The Chesapeake Bay Trust
• Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
• "Keeping Pace: Maryland's Most Important Environmental Problems and What We Can Do to Solve Them," Prepared for Senator Brian Frosh by the Environmental Law Clinic at the University of Maryland School of Law
• Maryland Department of the Environment
• Maryland Department of Natural Resources
• Maryland's Environmental Resources and Land Information Network (MERLIN)
• Maryland Sea Grant

Clean Water

• Clean Water Act
• Clean Water Network
• Federal Executive Orders
• Federal Regulations
• National Wetlands Inventory (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)
• Policy and Technical Guidance Documents from the EPA Office of Water
• Report to Congress on the Status and Trends of Wetlands in the Conterminous United States 1986 to 1997 (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)
• Wetlands Publications of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Endangered Species

• American Loggers Solidarity
• Animal Legal Defense Fund
• Clearing-House Mechanism, CHM, Convention on Biological Diversity
• Congressional Research Service Report: The Endangered Species Act and Private Property
• Defenders of Wildlife
• Endangered Species Act
• Endangered Species Bulletin (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)
• Endangered Species Page (EE-Link)
• LLRX.com's Pathfinder [Research Guide] to Information on the Endangered Species Act of 1973
• National Endangered Species Act Reform Coalition
• National Wildlife Federation
• NatureServe (formerly the Association for Biodiversity Information)
• World Wildlife Fund

Environmental Data

• Environmental Defense Fund Scorecard
• EPA Envirofacts Data Warehouse (provides access to several EPA databases that contain information about environmental activities that may affect air, water, and land anywhere in the United States)
  • EPA Toxics Release Inventory
• EPA Enviro$en$e: Common Sense Solutions to Environmental Problems
• Maryland's Environmental Resources and Land Information Network (MERLIN)
• National Environmental Data Index
• National Library for the Environment
  
• Right to Know Network (Provides free access to numerous databases, text files, and conferences on the environment, housing, and sustainable development. Allows identification of specific factories and their environmental effects; analysis of reinvestment by banks in their communities; and assessment of people and communities affected.)
• U.S. Global Change Data and Information System (GCDIS)

Environmental Journals

(All journals are full text unless otherwise indicated.)

• BNA Environment Reporter
• BNA Toxics Law Reporter
• Centre for Energy, Petroleum, and Mineral Law and Policy Journal
• Coastal Management
• Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum
• Electronic Green Journal
• Environmental Justice Quarterly (EPA)
• Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law
• NYU Environmental Law Journal
• Oil & Gas Journal
• Planning Perspectives
• Res Communes: Vermont's Journal of the Environment

Environmental Justice

• Environmental Justice Database
• Environmental Justice Resource Center
• EPA Environmental Justice Bibliography (3,000+ references and growing)
• EPA Environmental Justice: Policies and Guidance (Includes links to counsel memos, guidance documents, and executive orders.)
• National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (EPA)
• Native Americans and the Environment
• U.S. Environmental Justice (NYU)

Federal and State Agencies

• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) - U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services
• Department of Justice: Environment and Natural Resources Division
• Directory of State Environmental Agencies (via Capitol Reports Environmental News Link)
• Maryland Department of the Environment
• Maryland Department of Natural Resources
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• United States Army Corps of Engineers
  • Baltimore District
• United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service
• United States Department of Energy
• United States Department of Transportation's Office of Hazardous Materials Safety
• United States Environmental Protection Agency
  • Region III
• United States Fish & Wildlife Service
• United States Geological Survey Environmental Affairs Home Page
• United States Global Change Research Program

Federal Environmental Administrative Decisions

• Environmental Appeals Board Decisions (since 1992)
• Office of Administrative Law Judges - Decisions (since 10/31/1996)
• Office of Administrative Law Judges - Rules of Practice and Procedure
• EPA Enforcement and Compliance Docket and Information Center (ECDIC)

Federal Environmental Statutes and Regulations

• Animal Welfare Act, Regulations, and Standards (hosted by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture)
• Clean Air Act
• Clean Water Act
• Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (Superfund)
• Endangered Species Act
• Environmental Protection Agency Regulations (Title 40 of the CFR)
• FIFRA - Pesticide Control
• Marine Mammal Protection Act
• National Environmental Policy Act
  • EPA National Environmental Policy Act: Policies and Guidance
• RCRA - Solid Waste Disposal and Treatment

Hazardous Materials & Hazardous Waste

• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry - HazDat Database (a database of information on the release of hazardous substances from Superfund sites or from emergency events)
• Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (Superfund)
• EPA Cleanup Enforcement: Policies and Guidance
• FIFRA - Pesticide Control
• National Library of Medicine's TOXNET (Toxicology Data Network - A cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas.)
• NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards
• N.J. Department of Health and Senior Services Right to Know Hazardous Substance Fact Sheets (descriptions, exposure limits, and other information on numerous hazardous chemicals)
• Pesticide Action Network Pesticide Database
• RCRA - Solid Waste Disposal and Treatment
• Right to Know Network (Provides free access to numerous databases, text files, and conferences on the environment, housing, and sustainable development. Allows identification of specific factories and their environmental effects; analysis of reinvestment by banks in their communities; and assessment of people and communities affected.)
• Where to Find Materials Safety Datasheets on the Internet

International & Foreign Environmental Law

• American Society of International Law Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law
• Center for International Environmental Law
• Clearing-House Mechanism, CHM, Convention on Biological Diversity
• Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators Service
• The European Commission - Environment Directorate-General
• The European Environment Agency
• Globelaw International Environmental Law and Multilateral Conventions
• International Court of Environmental Arbitration and Conciliation: Home Page
• International Nature Conservation Policy & Legislation (European Center for Nature Conservation)
• IUCN: The World Conservation Union
• Natural Resources WebLinks: Countries (University of Denver) (links to the environmental laws of many countries)
• North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (a NAFTA commission)
• Pace Virtual Environmental Law Library - Comparative [Foreign] Law
• Pace Virtual Environmental Law Library - International Law
• United Nations Environment Programme
  • Global Programme of Action for Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-Based Activities
• United Nations Food and Agriculture Program
• United States Department of State's Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs

Land Use Issues

• Brookings Institute Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy Home Page
• Cyburbia: the Urban Planning Portal
• Local Government Environmental Assistance Network
• Smart Growth Online
• Sprawl Brawl (via Reason Online)
• Sprawl Guide
• Urban Land Institute
• U.S. EPA - OSPS Brownfields Homepage

Organizations

• ABA Standing Committee on Environmental Law
• Alliance for America
• Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise
• Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund
• Environmental Defense
• Environmental Law Institute
• Environmental Law World Alliance
• Greenpeace
• League of Conservation Voters
• National Council for Science and the Environment
• National Wildlife Federation
• Natural Resources Defense Council
• PERC: An Environmental Think Tank Promoting Market Approaches to Environmental Problems
• PEER: Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility
• Resources for the Future
• Sierra Club
• World Resources Institute
• World Wildlife Fund