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Comprehensive coverage of the entire spectrum of federal and state environmental law. Everything you need all in one place! Provides practical guidance that cuts across all substantive areas of environmental law. Written for attorneys, consultants, regulators and facility managers by some of the foremost authorities in the country, this publication provides guidance through complex procedures and phases of environmental law practice, featuring state-by-state as well as subject-by-subject coverage.
The set consists of four major units:
- Unit I: step-by-step guidance for procedural items involving, for example, environmental impact statements, land preservation, government financing, environmental management systems, document retention requirements, consultants and contractors, environmental due diligence, audits, liability, insurance, taxation, international activities, Indian country activities, regulatory takings, litigation, citizen suits, environmental justice, attorney's fees, conflicts of interest, ADR, civil and criminal enforcement, and practice before the EPA.
- Unit II: substantive law of environmental quality: air and water pollution, pollution prevention, indoor air quality, vapor intrusion, global climate change, green buildings and sustainable development, environmental trading programs, wetlands, drinking water, noise, oceans and coasts, and wildlife protection.
- Unit III: regulated substances and waste management, e.g.: identifying hazardous substances and hazardous wastes, RCRA, CERCLA, TSCA, OSHA, EPCRA, hazmat transportation, agricultural issues, pesticides, asbestos, lead, PCBs, molds, used oil, medical and infectious wastes, storage tanks, radioactive materials, preparation and responses to disasters and terrorism.
- Unit IV: state-by-state (plus D.C. and Puerto Rico) guide to environmental law, including an examination of the federal-state relationship, and state environmental law procedures, programmatic areas and reference guides.
Practice materials include permit and litigation forms, lease clauses, environmental audit checklists, due diligence inquiry letters, site investigation and remediation forms and checklists directories of state governmental offices, lists of environmental and trade associations in each state, and bibliographies. Upon its initial publication, this set was named the Year's Best New Legal Practice Book by the Association of American Publishers.
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Featured Authors
Michael B. Gerrard,
Michael B. Gerrard is Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Law School and founder and faculty director of its Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. He teaches courses on environmental law, energy regulation and climate change law. He chaired the faculty of Columbia's Earth Institute and holds a joint appointment to the faculty of its successor, the Columbia Climate School. Until December 2008 he headed the New York City office of Arnold & Porter LLP and its environmental law practice; he is now Senior Counsel to the firm (now Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP). He practiced environmental law full-time from 1979 through 2008.
He was 2004-2005 Chair of the American Bar Association‘s Section on Environment, Energy and Resources. He is also former Chair of the Environmental Law Section of the New York State Bar Association, and former Chair of the Executive Committee of the New York City Bar Association. He has served on the executive committees of the Environmental Law Institute and the American College of Environmental Lawyers.
He is General Editor of Matthew Bender‘s twelve-volume Environmental Law Practice Guide, which upon publication was selected as the “Best Law Book of the Year“ by the Association of American Publishers. He is the General Editor of Matthew Bender‘s four-volume publication Brownfields Law and Practice, winner of the 1998 “Best Law Book of the Year“ award. He is co-author of Matthew Bender‘s Environmental Impact Review in New York (with Daniel Ruzow and Philip Weinberg), author of Whose Backyard, Whose Risk: Fear and Fairness in Toxic and Nuclear Waste Siting (MIT 1994), editor of Matthew Bender‘s monthly newsletter Environmental Law in New York, and since 1986, co-author of the monthly environmental law column in the New York Law Journal. His other books are The Law of Environmental Justice (2nd ed. ABA 2008), Global Climate Change and U.S. Law (2nd ed. ABA 2014), The Law of Clean Energy: Efficiency and Renewables (ABA 2011), and The Law of Adaptation to Climate Change (ABA 2012). He has served as Deputy Director of the Mayor‘s Transit Office in New York City and Special Counsel to the Chair of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
He received his B.A. from Columbia University and his J.D. from New York University School of Law, where he was a Root Tilden Scholar.
Web site: www.columbiaclimatelaw.com
Twitter: @MichaelGerrard
Table of contents
VOLUME 1
UNIT I: PROCEDURES
Chapter 1 Environmental Impact Statements
Chapter 2 Historic Preservation
Chapter 3 Land Preservation
Chapter 4 Information Disclosure and Access
Chapter 5 Consultants and Contractors
Chapter 5A Environmental Due Diligence in Corporate Transactions
VOLUME 1A
Chapter 6 Environmental Audits
Chapter 6A Environmental Management Systems
Chapter 6B Document Retention Issues in Environmental Law
Chapter 6C [Reserved]
Chapter 7 Liability
Chapter 8 Environmental Insurance Coverage
Chapter 9 Federal Tax Considerations
VOLUME 2
Chapter 9A Government Financing
Chapter 10 Bankruptcy
Chapter 10A Regulatory Takings
Chapter 11 Government Searches and Private Inspections
Chapter 11A Practice Before the EPA
Chapter 11B Environmental Litigation
VOLUME 2A
Chapter 11C Alternative Dispute Resolution
Chapter 12 Civil Enforcement
Chapter 12A Citizen Suits
Chapter 12B Environmental Justice
Chapter 12C Criminal Enforcement
Chapter 13 Attorney’s Fees and Conflicts of Interest
Chapter 14 Environmental Groups, Trade Associations and Other Private Organizations
Chapter 15 International Activities and United States Environmental Law
Chapter 15A Indian Country Environmental Law
Chapters 15B–15C [Reserved]
VOLUME 3
UNIT II: ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Chapter 16 Common-Law Controls
Chapter 17 Clean Air Act
Chapter 17A Indoor Air Quality
Chapter 17B Vapor Intrusion
Chapter 17C Global Climate Change
Chapter 17D Green Buildings and Sustainable Development
VOLUME 4
Chapter 18 Water Pollution
Chapter 18A Pollution Prevention
Chapter 18B Environmental Trading Programs
Chapter 19 Wetlands
Chapter 20 Safe Drinking Water Act
Chapter 21 Flood Control and Flood Plain Regulation
Chapter 22 Noise
Chapter 23 Oceans and Oil Spills
Chapter 23A Coasts
Chapter 24 Wildlife and Habitat Protection<
VOLUME 4A
UNIT III: REGULATED SUBSTANCES AND WASTE MANAGEMENT
Chapter 25 Overview of the Law of Hazardous Materials
Chapter 26 Identifying Hazardous Materials and Hazardous Wastes
Chapter 27 Toxic Substances Control Act
Chapter 28 Worker and Public Notification
Chapter 28A Workplace Safety and Health
Chapter 28B Disasters and Terrorism: Preparation and Response
Chapter 29 Hazardous Waste Management
Chapter 29A Hazardous Materials Transportation
Chapter 30 Inactive Sites - The Superfund Process
VOLUME 5
Chapter 31 Waste Site Liability
Chapter 31A Forms for Investigation and Remediation of Contaminated Sites
Chapter 32 Real Property Transfers and Brownfields Development
Chapter 32A Federal Facilities
Chapter 32B Natural Resource Damages
Chapter 33 Toxic Torts
Chapter 34 Pesticides
Chapter 34A Agricultural Environmental Law
VOLUME 5A
Chapter 35 Municipal Solid Waste
Chapter 36 Asbestos
Chapter 36A Lead
Chapter 36B PCBs
Chapter 36C Molds
Chapter 37 Used Oil Management
Chapter 38 Medical and Infectious Wastes
Chapter 39 Storage Tanks
Chapter 40 Radioactive Materials
VOLUME 6
UNIT IV: STATES
Chapter 41 Federal-State Relationships
Chapter 42 Alabama
Chapter 43 Alaska
Chapter 44 Arizona
Chapter 45 Arkansas
Chapter 46 California
Chapter 47 Colorado
Chapter 48 Connecticut
Chapter 49 Delaware
Chapter 50 District of Columbia
Chapter 51 Florida
Chapter 52 Georgia
Chapter 53 Hawaii
Chapter 54 Idaho
Chapter 55 Illinois
Chapter 56 Indiana
Chapter 57 Iowa
Chapter 58 Kansas
Chapter 59 Kentucky
Chapter 60 Louisiana
VOLUME 7
Chapter 61 Maine
Chapter 62 Maryland
Chapter 63 Massachusetts
Chapter 64 Michigan
Chapter 65 Minnesota
Chapter 66 Mississippi
Chapter 67 Missouri
Chapter 68 Montana
Chapter 69 Nebraska
Chapter 70 Nevada
Chapter 71 New Hampshire
Chapter 72 New Jersey
Chapter 73 New Mexico
Chapter 74 New York
Chapter 75 North Carolina
Chapter 76 North Dakota
Chapter 77 Ohio
Chapter 78 Oklahoma
Chapter 79 Oregon
VOLUME 8
Chapter 80 Pennsylvania
Chapter 81 Puerto Rico
Chapter 82 Rhode Island
Chapter 83 South Carolina
Chapter 84 South Dakota
Chapter 85 Tennessee
Chapter 86 Texas
Chapter 87 Utah
Chapter 88 Vermont
Chapter 89 Virginia
Chapter 90 Washington
Chapter 91 West Virginia
Chapter 92 Wisconsin
Chapter 93 Wyoming
Table of Main Acronyms and Abbreviations Used in This Publication
EPA Terms of Environment - Glossary, Abbreviations, and Acronyms
Index
