POLS 346, Environmental Politics and Policy

Links organized into the following categories: 

Interest Groups & Parties

Local Government

State Government

National Government

access.washingtonÕs index to environmental and natural resources sites

 

International Organizations & Issues

Environmental News and Info.

Environmental Ethics

Other Things

 

The Top Ten (by membership) Environmental Interest Groups

Sierra Club

National Audubon Society

National Parks and Conservation Association

Natural Resources Defense Council

Greenpeace USA

Environmental Defense Fund

Wilderness Society

National Wildlife Federation

Nature Conservancy

World Wildlife Fund

 

ÔWise UseÕ Groups and Websites

Pacific Research Institute

National Petrochemical & Refiners Association

Townhall.com is a presentation of the Heritage Foundation, lots of issue info. They have a page for environmental group links.

The Alliance for AmericaÕs links to wise-use movement groups

Property & Environment Research Center, PERC and their Report Card on Bush

 

Other Groups

Apollo Alliance  (check their board) 

The Washington Environmental Council maintains links to interest groups in Washington State that make up the Council. 

Gund Institute for Ecological Economics   (papers on alternatives to GDP measure, saving biodiversity, and modeling social/ecological relationships)

Ecosystem Valuation (supported by USDA/NRCS and NOAA)

Environmental Working Group

Resources for the Future

Redefining Progress 

League of Conservation Voters

Ceres (sustainable econ group)

Green Collar Association

Veterans Green Jobs 

Links to Green Parties worldwide

Earth Day net

American Fisheries Society

American Forests

Society for Ecological Restoration

Friends of the Earth

Rainforest Action Network

Ducks Unlimited

Free The Planet, a PIRG group

Izaak Walton League of America

Animal Legal Defense Fund

Defenders of Wildlife

International Wildlife Coalition

American Farmland Trust

Earth Economics

Sprawl Watch Clearinghouse

Earth First!

Negative Population Growth Homepage

Gaia Watch UK population page 

links to scientific and ecological organizations

Project VoteSmartÕs page on environmental groups

Local Government

City of Tacoma  (the iconic Old City Hall, appearing in the web pictures, is vacant)

Environmental Services, which includes many things 

GovME Maps is a digital map site for Tacoma, LEARN TO USE THIS  (their getting started page—you need to run Windows and Internet Explorer for this site)

Public Works (see the many links on the right side of the page)

The new Center for Urban Waters 

Pierce County

Pierce County Planning and Land Services office

Public Works & Utilities

clover/chambers creek wria planning

Pierce County Assessor

Pierce CountyÕs Òlead entityÓ in the statewide salmon recovery effortsÉ. 

Economic Development Board

Various King County environmental links

King County Salmon recovery page  

 

State Government

Washington State Department of Ecology.  This page links many state environmental programs. 

.                             State/EPA Performance Partnership Agreements

.                             Ecology keeps information on local watersheds.

.                             Various publications of DOE, including helpful newsletter.

.                             SEPA issues and handbook (State Environmental Policy Act)

Puget Sound Partnership 

Washington State Environmental Health reports

Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife (check their many topics)—like the Land Use Planners Guide to Salmonid Protection and Recovery, and an old salmon recovery page. 

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 Energy & Environment  page.

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

 Environmental Protection Agency

Office of the Inspector General

list of  gao reports on epa  (alas, not updated)

EPAÕs 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

NOAAÕs Northwest Regional page, with lost of info about salmon plans. 

Tennessee Valley Authority

US Senate Page on the budget process

GAO reports on climate change, food safety,  and you can search GAO reports by agency, etc. 

DHHS has a Household Products Database 

 

Environmental News and Information

The Encyclopedia of Earth and their Ocean-Oil project (about The Oil Spill), supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation DUE program. 

Check Earth Portal.   

The Yale Center for Environmental Law and and Policy publishes a sustainability index and an environmental performance index. 

The Sustainable Aviation Fuels Users Group  

Every wondered where the money you spend on gasoline goes?  Check this.  Here is an argument about what we really pay for gasoline. 

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

The NCSE also links Congressional Research Service Reports.

CEWEP is about waste to energy projects, in Europe 

The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative 

 

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.

A useful web page from professor Ron Epstein at San Francisco State University

Ethics Updates, from the Values Institute as UC San Diego

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

 

Other Things

The California Department of Toxic Substances Control, the lead agency in that stateÕs Green Chemistry Initiative, and a letter from the industry-sponsored Green Chemical Alliance.  The new initiative is somewhat modeled after REACH. 

Those of us who like Michael Pollan on food, check where he got many of his ideas & much of his inspration:  Joan Gussow.  

The online journal, Solutions. 

Kenneth Arrow, et. al., ÒAre We Consuming Too Much 

Kahneman &n Krueger, ÒDevelopments in the measurement of subjective well-beingÓ  

The New Economic Foundation, with their work on national accounts of well-being, on natural economies, and on well-being. 

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 NationsÕ Framework Convention on Climate Change.

.       The United NationsÕ World Energy Assessment, linking sustainability & humanitarian issues

.       The United NationsÕEnvironment Programme

.       For other climate information, try the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center at Oak RidgeÉ.

.       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

 

 

©Sid Olufs, 2010.