The Process

LEXIS/WESTLAW:

Westlaw - Statutes - Chaptered Laws: current, 1987-2004 - Bills - Leg. History - Very limited
Lexis - Statutes - Chaptered Laws - Bills - Leg. History - Limited

INTERNET (1993-):

Statutes - California Code
Slip Laws - California Laws
Bills - California Bills
Leg. History - See California Legislative History Guide

California Regulations:

LEXIS/WESTLAW:

Westlaw:
Barclays Official Code of Regulations (CA-ADC)
Regulation Tracking
Environmental Law Administrative Decisions (CAENV-ADMIN)
Environmental Records (EDR) (EDR-CA)

Lexis:
Barclays Official Code of Regulations
Administrative Decisions (various)
Regulation Tracking

INTERNET (Current):

California Code of Regulations
California Regulatory Notice Register

For administrative decisions and guidances. - See California Regulations and Administrative Law Guide

California Agencies:

California Air Resources Board
California Coastal Commission
California Department of Conservation
California Environmental Protection Agency
Department of Fish and Game
California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection

Governor's Office of Planning and Research (OPR)
California Resources Agency
California Department of Parks and Recreation
California Department of Water Resources
California Integrated Waste Management Board
California Department of Health/Indoor Air Quality
California Department of Toxic Substances Control

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Municipal Ordinances:

INTERNET:

San Francisco Codes
UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies Library has links to CA Municipalities online
Municipal Codes Online links to publishers of Municipal codes
Google Use google search engine to find page with local ordinances

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Secondary Sources:

WESTLAW:

California Civil Practice - Environmental Litigation
Clean Air Act: Law and Practice
Environmental Enforcement: Civil and Criminal
Environmental Law (Rodgers)
Hazardous Waste Law & Practice
Superfund Law and Procedure

Environmental Law Forms Guide
Enflex Federal Env, Health Safety Forms
Enflex CA Env, Health & Safety Forms

Environmental Data Resources:
CA Environmental Records
EDR Compliance Records
EDR CERCLIS Sites

Environment & Energy Publishing:
Environment & Energy Daily
Greenwire
Land Letter

LEXIS:

ELI Environmental Law Reporter
California Environmental Law Reporter

Brownfields Law and Practice
California Environmental Law & Land Use Practice
Courtroom Toxicology
Environmental Law Practice Guide
Guide to Toxis Torts
Treatise on Environmental Law (Grad)

News:
Environmental Law Newsletters
Mealeys Environmental Litigation Reports

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW INSTITUTE:

Environmental Law Reporter

Secondary Sources -- Print in the Library:

General Treatises and Handbooks and Hornbooks:

FEDERAL:

Grad, Frank P., Treatise on Environmental Law (M. Bender, 1973-)(KF3775 .G73 Reserve)

Rodgers, William H., Environmental Law (West Pub. Co., 1986-)(KF3812 .R63 1986 Reserve)
v. 1-2. Air and water.--v. 3. Pesticides and toxic substances.--v. 4. Hazardous wastes & substances.

Rodgers, William H., Environmental Law (Hornbook) (West Pub. Co., 1994)( KF3775 .R53 Circ Desk)

Environmental Law in a Nutshell, 6th ed. / by Roger W. Findley ( KF3775.Z9 F56 2004 Reserve)

Environmental Law Handbook, 17th ed.: Government Insts 2003 ( KF3775.Z9 E53 2003 Reserve).

CALIFORNIA:

California Environmental Law and Land Use Practice/ A. Manaster, Daniel P. Selmi (M. Bender, 1989-) (KFC610 .C348 Reserve)

Curtin's California land Use and Planning law / Daniel J. Curtin; Point Arena, Calif. : Solano Press, c1997- (KFC811 .C87 Course Reserve Cunningham)

California Environmental Law Handbook, (11th ed. Rockville, Md., : Government Institutes, c1999) (KFC610.A75 C3 1999 Reserve)

Practice Under the California Environmental Quality Act, Berkeley, Calif. : Continuing Education of the Bar, 1993- (KFC610 .K67 Reserve Stacks)

Directories:

FEDERAL:

Federal Regional Yellow Book : Who's Who in the Federal Government's Departments, Agencies, Courts, Military Installations, and Service Academies Outside of Washington, DC (Monitor Pub. Co., c1993-) (JK6 .F42 Reference)

Federal Regulatory Directory, ([Washington] Congressional Quarterly Inc)(JK8 .C6 Reference)

Washington Information Directory [Washington] Congressional Quarterly, (JK661 .C5 Reference)

The United States Government Manual.(JK421 .A3 Reference )

CALIFORNIA:

Roster: California State, County, City and Township Officials, State Officials of the United States,
[Sacramento] Secretary of State.(JK8730 .R67 Reference & Reserve Stacks)

The California State Government Directory, compiled and edited by State Net and California journal Sacramento, CA : California Journal Press, 2004. (JK8767 .A56 Reference)

Deskbooks:

FEDERAL:

ELI publishes deskbooks that pull together the statutes, regs, important working documents including selected legislative history. They publish a general environmental law deskbook (KF3775 .E47), and they have deskbooks in the following areas:
Biotechnology Deskbook ( KF1893.B56 B557 2001)
Clean Air Deskbook (KF3812 .C555 1992)
Clean Water Deskbook (KF3790 .C55 1991)
Endangered Species Deskbook (KF5640 .L53 2003)
Environmental Crimes Deskbook (KF3775 .E46 1996)
The Natural Resource Damage Assessment Deskbook (KF1298 .L44 2002)
NEPA Deskbook (KF3775 .N47 2003)
Oil Pollution Deskbook (KF3790 .O35 1991)
RCRA Deskbook (KF3946 .R36 1991)
Wetlands Deskbook (KF5624 .W48 1997)

CALIFORNIA:

CEQA Deskbook, Point Arena, Calif. : Solano Press Books, 1996- (KFC610 .B3 Reserve Stacks)

Guide to the California Environmental Quality Act, Point Arena, Calif. : Solano Press Books, 1999 (KFC610 .A335 A2 Reserve Stacks)

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Misc. Web Sites, NGO's and other cool stuff:

CALIFORNIA:

CERES is an information system developed by the California Resources Agency to facilitate access to a variety of electronic data describing California's rich and diverse environments. The goal of CERES is to improve environmental analysis and planning by integrating natural and cultural resource information from multiple contributors and by making it available and useful to a wide variety of users.

California Land Use Planning Information Network (LUPIN)

CEQA home (home page for CEQA resources) and CEQAnet searchable database of CEQA documents)

California Home Page

FEDERAL:

National Council for Science and Environment includes Congressional Research Service Reports and National Library for the Environment.

Additional Sites:

Environmental Professionals Homepage
Environmental Defense
Environemental Law Net
Findlaw -- Environmental Law
Findlaw Environmental Databases
Right to Know Network

Public Records Requests:

FOIA Reference Guide from the US Department of Justice, covering procedures for all federal agencies.
Cal/EPA Public Records Act contacts and forms

Federal Information Disclosure, 3rd ed., St. Paul, Minn. : West Group, 2000 (KF5753 .O74 2000 Reserve Stacks). See Chapter 7.

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