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Environmental Law Practice Guide: State and Federal Law

Guidance through complex procedures and phases of environmental law practice, featuring state-by-state as well as subject-by- subject coverage.


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Publisher :Matthew Bender
Format: 12 volumes, looseleaf, updated with supplements and revisions , BOOK
ISBN: 9780820517933
2008
  $1,991.00
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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.

    Also available on Authority Environmental Law Library CD-ROM.

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    Michael Gerrard, General Editor


    Michael B. Gerrard heads the New York City office of Arnold & Porter, where he represents corporations, municipalities, and other organizations in environmental litigation and transactional matters.

    He was 2004-2005 Chair of the American Bar Association's Section on Environment, Energy and Resources. He is former Chair of the Environmental Law Section of the New York State Bar Association and has practiced environmental law since 1979. Mr. Gerrard was also a member of the adjunct faculties of Columbia Law School and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

    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 (ABA 1999) and Global Climate Change and U.S. Law (ABA 2007). Mr. Gerrard is also the former Chairman of the Executive Committee, and former Chair of the Committee of Land Use Planning and Zoning and of the Committee on Transportation, of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. 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.

     

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