Business Law

ENVIRONMENT

Reference Sources

• Environmental Law in a Nutshell (REF KF3775.Z9 F56 2004)
• Environmental Law, Legal Information Institute
• Dictionary of environmental legal terms (REF KF3775.A68 L44 1996)

Statutes & Regulations

Federal

• FindLaw > Legal Subjects > Environmental Law > Primary Materials - Laws and Government Documents
  Links to text of US Code relevant to the environment.
• Major Environmental Laws, Environmental Protection Agency
• LexisNexis Academic > Legal Research > Federal Code
  Can be searched by keyword. Works best with very specific searches (e.g., "clean water act") rather than more general terms (e.g., "environment").

State

• Maine Revised Statues Annotated (REF KFM 30 .A25 1964-2002)
  Index of relevant statutes (and cross-references) under "Environment" in the volume "2002 General Index A-L".
• LexisNexis Academic > Legal Research > State Code > Maine
  Can be searched by keyword. Works best with very specific searches (e.g., "recycling") rather than more general terms (e.g., "environment").

Case Law

Federal

• LexisNexis Academic > Area of Law by Topic > Environmental Law
  Search by keyword (e.g., plaintiff/defendant name, case title, geographic location, descriptor).

State

• Maine Key Number Digest (REF KFM 47.1 M3)
  Relevant cases are indexed under "Environmental Law" in the "Cumulative Annual Pocket Part" of the volume titled "Drugs and Narcotics to Estoppel".  (I.E., The pocket part is an update to the Digest and is found in the back of the above volume).
• LexisNexis Academic > Legal Research > State Case Law > Maine
  Can be searched by keyword. Works best with very specific searches (e.g., "water pollution") rather than more general terms (e.g., "environment").

Revised by Stephen Fadel, 03/25/2008
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