Climate Resources
As a follow-up to our various client alerts on the topic, below are a variety of resources relevant to various ongoing climate regulatory initiatives, as well as select materials relating to legal matters on which we are providing representation.
Securities Exchange Commission
SEC
"Commission Guidance
Regarding Disclosure Related to Climate Change" (February 8, 2010)
Endangerment
Finding and
Legal Challenges
EPA "Endangerment Finding" (December
15, 2009)
Petition for Reconsideration
(filed before EPA on
December 23, 2009)
Third Amendment to Petition
for
Reconsideration (filed with EPA on February 17, 2010)
Petition for Review (filed before
the DC
Circuit Court of Appeals on February 12,
2010)
KGL Updates and Newsletters
KGL Environmental Advisory
2010-001: Endangerment
Finding, Tailoring Rule, and Greenhouse Gas
Reporting (February 11, 2010)
KGL Environmental Advisory 2010-002: SEC
Guidance on Climate-Related Disclosures
(February 11, 2010)
Web Resources
Obviously, there's a nearly infinite amount of environmental information available on the internet. The challenge is in separating the worthwhile sources from the worthless, and in keeping the surprisingly large set of valuable sources well organized. The links below represent the collection of our current "favorite" sites. We'll update it from time to time as we find other good sources, and if there are other sites that you feel should be added, please do not hesitate to refer those sources to us.
ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCIES
INFORMATION RESOURCES
NEWS & TIDBITS
U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency
Home
page
CERCLIS
database
Environmental
regulations by topic
Enforcement
and Compliance History Online (ECHO) (a comprehensive
searchable listing of compliance and enforcement information for over
800,000 EPA-regulated facilities)
Environmental
regulations by CFR section
EPA
guidance documents
EPA/COE
wetlands regulations
EPA
personnel locator
EPA Region 4
(Southeastern United States)
Home
page
GA
environmental statutes and regulations
EPD
Structure (with personnel index and phone numbers)
GA
Hazardous Sites Index
Florida Department of Environmental Protection
Home page
Waste
management rules
Alabama Department of Environmental Management
Home page
ADEM
regulations
AL
Investigation & Remediation Guidance
South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control
North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation
Home page
Waste
remediation division (includes brownfields)
EPA CLU-IN:
Clearinghouse for environmental cleanup information
EPA
Envirofacts: Useful source of environmental geographical
information
Integrated Risk Information
System (IRIS): Standard source of chemical and toxicology
information
GIS Pilot: A
virtual library of GIS & geographic links from around the
world. The Georgia
GIS information page links to all available Georgia counties,
as well as to the other 49 states.
Cornell University Legal
Information Institute: Surprisingly broad collection of
statutes, regulations, and reported decisions, all available for free.
Click these links for the state-specific pages for Georgia,
Florida,
Alabama,
South
Carolina, North
Carolina, and Tennessee.
ABA Section
on Environment, Energy, and Resources: ABA SEER Committees
publish a wide variety of legal newsletters, most of which are
available to the public. Topics include air quality, climate change,
endangered species, environmental litigation and toxic torts,
brownfields, Superfund, and water quality and wetlands, among others.
Scroll down to the "Committee Newsletters" drop-down box.
Johnson-Ettinger
"Lite": EPA's model for calculating environmental media
criteria based on vapor intrusion concerns
EnviroGroup
VI Newsletter: Really great newsletter covering VI issues,
published by EnviroGroup
Limited consulting firm.
Fanning
Institute Brownfield site: Sponsors periodic brownfield
programs and publishes a helpful newsletter on brownfield redevelopment
State Coalition for
Remediation of Drycleaners: Publishes a newsletter on
drycleaner remediation topics, and also includes a searchable database
of drycleaner cleanups.
Wall
Street Journal Environmental Blog: Useful environmental news
with a business perspective
Environmental News Network:
Daily roundup of environmental news.
Environmental News
Service: Similar to ENN -- daily environmental news.
Environmental Economics: One of the most promising developments in
environmental regulation over the past decade has been the introduction
of market-based programs in lieu of command-and-control environmental
regulation. One good source of publications on the environmental
economics movement is Property
and Environment Research Center. The Georgia Public Policy Foundation
also sometimes has relevant materials on environmental economics.
National
Weather Radar/Satellite
Department of
Defense News
