environmental law: an
overview
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) was passed in 1970 along
with the Environmental Quality Improvement Act, the Environmental
Education Act, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The main
objective of these federal enactments was to assure that the environment
be protected against both public and private actions that failed to take
account of costs or harms inflicted on the eco-system.
The EPA was supposed to monitor and analyze the environment, conduct
research, and work closely with state and local governments to devise
pollution control policies. NEPA (really enacted in 1969) has been
described as one of Congress's most far reaching environmental legislation
ever passed. The basic purpose of NEPA is to force governmental agencies
to consider the effects on the environment of their decisions.
State laws also reflect the same concerns and common law actions in
nuisance allow adversely affected property owners to seek a judicial
remedy for environtal harms harms.
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Federal Material
- 7 U.S.C.,
Chapter 6 - Insecticides and Environmental Pesticide Control
- 16 U.S.C. -
Conservation
- 22 U.S.C.
§ 274a - International Biological Program for the Earth's Ecology
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U.S.C. § 2151 - International Environmental and Natural Resources
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U.S.C. § 2151p-1 - Tropical Forests
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U.S.C. § 2151q - Endangered Species
- 26 U.S.C.,
Chapter 38 - Environmental Taxes
- 33 U.S.C.,
Chapter 9 - Protection of Navigable Waters
- 33 U.S.C.,
Chapter 26 - Clean Water Act
- 33 U.S.C.,
Chapter 27 - Ocean Dumping
- 33 U.S.C.,
Chapter 33 - Prevention from Pollution from Ships
- 33 U.S.C.,
Chapter 40 - Oil Pollution
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U.S.C. § 300g-1 - National Drinking Water Regulations
- 42 U.S.C.,
Chapter 23 - Atomic Energy
- 42 U.S.C.,
Chapter 55 - National Environmental Policy
- 42 U.S.C.,
Chapter 65 - Noise Pollution
- 42 U.S.C.,
Chapter 73 - Development of Energy Sources
- 42 U.S.C.,
Chapter 82 - Solid Waste Disposal
- 42 U.S.C.,
Chapter 85 - Clean Air Actl
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U.S.C., Chapter 103 - Comprehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA)
Federal Agency Regulations
- Code of Federal Regulations: 40 C.F.R. -
Protection of Environment
Federal Judicial Decisions
State Material
State Statutes and Regulations
- Dealing
with Natural Resources
- Dealing
with Water
- State Environmental
Regulations
- Uniform Laws:
- Uniform Transboundary Pollution Reciprocal Access Act (adopted by
Colorado, Connecticut, Michigan, Montana, New Jersey, Oregon, and
Wisconsin)
- Uniform Conservation Easement Act (adopted by Alaska, Arizona,
District of Columbia, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky,
Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, South Carolina,
Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin)
International Material
Other References
Useful Offnet (or Subscription - $) Sources
- Good Starting Point in Print: Celia Campbell-Mohn, Barry Breen,
& J. William Futrell, Hornbook on Environmental Law, West Group (1994)
Other
Law Topics Bearing on Property, Natural Resources, or the Environment
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