Political Science 346: Environmental Links

State/EPA Performance Partnership Agreements
Ecology keeps information on local watersheds.
They keep links to many sources of information about state environmental issues.
Various publications of DOE, including helpful newsletter.
SEPA issues and handbook (State Environmental Policy Act)

Washington State Environmental Indicators (1999 office of financial management report)

Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife (check their many topics)

Washington Department of Natural Resources and Conservation

National Government

CNIE's summary of EPA-administered laws

Courtesy of NCSE, links to federal agencies with jurisdiction in environmental issues.

Also Courtesy of NCSE, links to relevant Congressional Committees.

Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works

Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

The President's White House Environmental Issues page.

U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environment and Natural Resource Division

Environmental Protection Agency

Office of the Inspector General

Check their logic models for policy

list of recent gao reports on epa

EPA’s web page for the Superfund program

U.S. Department of the Interior

US Fish and Wildlife Service

Bureau of Land Management

US Geological Survey

U.S. Department of Energy

NOAA's webpage on Salmon issues and other endangered species

Tennessee Valley Authority

US Senate Page on the budget process

Environmental News and Information

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer ran a series, in November of 2002, on Our Troubled (Puget) Sound

National Council for Science and the Environment (www.ncseonline.org) page, “Environmental Science Policy Primer”

CNIE Home Page--An excellent starting place for environmental news, Congressional Research Service reports, information on international treaties, and much else…. The NCSE also links Congressional Research Service Reports.

Resources for the Future, a think-tank that applies economics and other social science methods to the study of environmental issues. Rich set of links to papers on many topics.

Tidepool: "News from the entire bioregion compiled daily from newspapers throughout the bioregion and country"

The Environmental Working Group produces many analyses about environmental issues, and supply these to many of the "top ten" groups above.

The Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy publishes the Environmental Sustainability Index.

Western Environmental Law Center

Envirolink has many resources

Environmental Defense Fund's Scorecard, with info about the environment where you live

Think Tanks galore, courtesy of the U.Mich. library.

Stories and Background on Climate Politics, from the Washington Post

Salmon Issues

Washington’s Department of Fish and Wildlife salmon page—Start Here!

WA Fish & Wildlife Salmonid Policy documents

NOAA's webpage on Salmon issues and other ESA listings

Here is the Columbia and Snake Rivers Campaign (pro-dam-removal organization). They have a rich set of links to the issue and related organizations

US Army Corps of Engineers Lower Snake River salmon documents

The Chehalis River Council keeps a webpages filled to the brim with information on water issues

Charting Nature, an Oregon group that is interested in the salmon and related issues.

Environmental Ethics

UNT's CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY

National Center for Environmental Decision-making Research. The mission of NCEDR is to improve environmental decision making at the subnational level. NCEDR conducts research and outreach programs intended to put better tools and information in the hands of public- and private-sector environmental decision makers at regional, state, tribal, and local levels. NCEDR was created in 1995 with a grant from the National Science Foundation.

Ethics Updates, from the Values Institute as UC San Diego

An interview on "Darwinian Left" with Peter Singer, from Reason magazine.

Other Things

Links about activism, organizing, and tactics in environmental politics are available from enviroweb.

What about drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge? See http://www.anwr.org/

National Academy Press, from the National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council, has many online titles about environmental and related issues. Browse their categories and titles here.

The Role of Risk Analysis and Risk Management in Environmental Protection

The Pace Virtual Environmental Law Library contains many sources, but might need updating.

Policy.com's issue links

The Tragedy of the Commons, by Garrett Hardin (1968); and The Tragedy Of The Common Revisited, by Beryl Crowe (1969)

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was an influential book in the modern environmental movement. See the Rachel Carson Homestead Association website.

International Organizations and Issues

Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators (ENTRI) contains many things about the topic; see their subject index here.
The International Institute for Sustainable Development has many sources on their site.
The OECD has many documents available about environmental and food/ag/fisheries issues.
The United Nations’ Framework Convention on Climate Change.
The United Nations’ World Energy Assessment, linking sustainability & humanitarian issues
The United Nations’Environment Programme
For other climate information, try the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center at Oak Ridge….
The World Trade Organization maintains a page on its environmental issues.
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Secretariat was created to deal with dispute resolution. The NAFTA-related North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation is found here.
World Resources Institute
European Environmental Law homepage
International Whaling Commission, and the World Council of Whalers

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