Environmental Advocacy
You may contact Jenny Rensler, course liaison, for research-related questions at jrensler@law.umaryland.edu.
Getting Started | Agencies, Associations, and NGOs | Subscription Databases | Electronic Journals | Additional Electronic Resources | Brief Bibliography of Print Resources | Primary Law | Lexis | Westlaw | Practice Materials on the Clinic Research Guide
Getting Started
With any project, unless you are already knowledgeable about environmental advocacy, it is best to start with basic, introductory resources and then to consult more focused works, moving from secondary sources to primary sources.
Secondary sources such as articles and books can provide you with an overview of your topic and help you think of search terms you might not have thought of otherwise. They also cite primary authorities such as statutes and cases. You can use the primary sources cited in secondary sources as a jumping off point to find other primary sources in several ways:
- Shepardize or KeyCite them to see what other sources have cited them (visit the Shepard's Citation Service tutorial or the KeyCite tutorial for more information);
- Read cases to see what other sources they cite (jump to Judicial Materials);
- On Westlaw or WestlawNext look up the topics and key numbers in the cases you've already read to find other cases that address the same issues;
- On Lexis or Lexis Advance, use "More Like This" to find other sources with wording or citation patterns similar to the document you started with;
- Read annotations to statutes to find cross references to cases that have analyzed them or regulations that have been issued under their authority.
Agencies, Associations, and Non-Governmental Organizations
- ABA-Section on Environment, Energy and Resources
- Air and Waste Management Association
- American Public Health Association
- Brownfields Cleanup and Redevelopment
- Cancer Prevention Coalition
- Center for Landuse Interpretation
- Envirobiz (International Environmental Information Network)
- Environmental Defense Fund Worldwide (EDF)
- Environmental Justice Case Studies (U. of Michigan students)
- Environmental Justice Group (University of Michigan)
- Great Lakes Information Network (GLIN)
- National Center for Environmental Health
- National Drinking Water Clearinghouse
- National Safety Council - Environmental Health Center
- Occupational and Environmental Health Website
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- Earth System Governance Project
- Global Environment Facility (GEF)
- European Environment Agency (EEA)
- Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA)
U.S. Agencies
- US Toxicology and Environmental Health - National Library of Medicine
- US Department of Justice-Environment and Natural Resources Division
- US Environmental Protection Agency
- US Fish and Wildlife Service
- US National Park Service
- US Department of Agriculture (USDA)
- US Department of Commerce (DOC)
- US Department of Defense (DOD)
- Defense Environmental Network & Information Exchange (DENIX)
- National Defense Center for Environmental Excellence (NDCEE)
- Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense: Installations and Environment
- Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
- Army Environmental Center (USAEC)
- US Department of Energy (DOE)
- US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Subscription Databases
- Academic Search Premier
- ArticleFirst
- CQ Weekly
- Environment Reporter
- Environmental Law Reporter
- FirstSearch
- HeinOnline
- Index to Legal Periodicals and Books Full Text
- JStor
- Opennet Database
- ScienceDirect
- Social Scisearch (Westlaw password required)
- Statistical Resources on the Web (University of Michigan)
- Toxics Law Reporter
- U.S. Law Week/Supreme Court Today
Electronic Journals
- Archives of Environmental Health
- Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review
- Environment & Behavior
- Environmental Health Perspectives. Supplements
- Environmental Health Perspectives: EHP
- Harvard Environmental Law Review
- International Journal of Environmental Health Research
- Journal of Environmental Health
- Risk: Health, Safety & Environment
- Science of the Total Environment
- UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy
Additional Electronic Resources
- Bioremediation in the Field Search System (BFSS)
- Competing for the Mighty Columbia River - Past, Present and Future: The Role of Interstate Allocation (ABA. Section of Natural Resources, Energy, and Environmental Law)
- Environmental Law: An Overview (Cornell LII)
- Findlaw Legal Subjects-Environmental Law
- Law Links - Public Health/Environment/Healthcare (Wayne County)
- Occupational Health & Safety Resources on the Net
- Research Sources for Environmental Health (U of New Hampshire at Manchester Library)
- Superfund Acronyms
Brief Bibliography
The following is a partial list of the Environmental Advocacy related materials available in the Thurgood Marshall Law Library. For additional sources on this topic, please check the library's Catalog.
Environmental law, edited by Peter S. Menell. Burlington,
VT: Ashgate, 2002.
UMLL: Stacks - KF3775.E467 2002
The environmental law and compliance handbook, James F. Berry,
Mark S. Dennison. New York: McGraw-Hill, c2000.
UMLL: General Stacks KF3775.B42 2000
Environmental law and policy, statutory and regulatory supplement.
New York, N.Y.: Foundation Press, 2001-
UMLL: General Stacks KF3775.A29E58
Environmental law in a nutshell, Roger W. Findley. 5th ed. St.
Paul, MN: West Group, 2000.
UMLL: General Stacks KF3775.Z9F56 2000
Environmental regulation: law, science, and policy, Robert V.
Percival…[et al.] 2d ed. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1996
UMLL: General Stacks KF3775.E58 1996
FIFRA: Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, Lynn
L. Bergeson.
Chicago, Ill.: Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources, American
Bar Association, c2000.
UMLL: General Stacks KF3959.B37 2000
Hot topics in environmental law: air developments, brownfields &
superfund, water & takings. Baltimore,MD.: MICPEL, 2002.
UMLL: General Stacks KFM1554.H32 2002
Maryland environmental law handbook, by the law firm of Piper
& Marbury; authors, Deborah E. Jennings ...[et al.]. [Rockville, MD]:
Government Institutes,[1996].
UMLL: General Stacks KFM1554.M375 1996
Natural resources law, by Jan G. Laitos. St. Paul, Minn.: West
Group, 2002.
UMLL: Reserves - KF3775.L54 2002
Opportunities for advancing environmental justice: an analysis of
U.S. EPA statutory authorities. Washington,DC: Environmental Law Institute,
c2001.
UMLL: General Stacks KF3775.O66 2001
Out of bounds, out of control: regulatory enforcement at the EPA,
James V. DeLong. Washington, DC: Cato Institute, c2002.
UMLL: General Stacks KF3775.Z9D45 2002
Risk regulation at risk: restoring a pragmatic approach, Sidney
A. Shapiro and
Robert L. Glicksman. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, c2003.
UMLL: General Stacks KF3775.S53 2003
This land is your land, this land is my land: the property rights
movement and
regulatory takings, Alfred M. Olivetti, Jr., and Jeff Worsham. New
York: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2003.
UMLL: Stacks - KF5599.O43 2003
Primary Law
Legislative Materials
- Thomas
- United States Code(searchable full text)
- Congressional Record (searchable full text)
- Clean Air Act (LII)
- Clean Water Act (LII)
- Superfund: Laws, Policies & Guidelines
- Maryland Annotated Code (free via Lexis)
Administrative Materials
- Code of Federal Regulations (searchable full text)
- List of Sections Affected
- Federal Register (searchable full text)
- Maryland Regulations (COMAR) Online
- Maryland Register Online
Judicial Materials
- Supreme Court (official site)
- Supreme Court Cases from Cornell's Legal Information Institute pages
- U.S. Court of Appeals (4th Circuit)
- Circuit Court cases from LII
- Federal Court Locator
- Maryland Appellate Court Opinions
- NOTE: for both more comprehensive and more precise case searches please see the Lexis and Westlaw links below.
