Harnessing Consumer Power: Using Certification Systems to Promote Good Governance
Author
Pooja Parikh
Date Released
May 2003

Harnessing Consumer Power: Using Certification Systems to Promote Good Governance explores how certification mechanisms that have been used previously to promote environmental and social sustainability can be applied to advance transparent and democratic government processes, reduce corruption, and promote peace. Certification systems may be designed to directly cut off major sources of revenue for armed conflict or to indirectly improve environmental and social sustainability such as ecotourism certification. Highlighting the current international certification systems for

Constitutional Environmental Law: Giving Force to Fundamental Principles in Africa
Author
Carl Bruch, Environmental Law Institute
Date Released
May 2000

This research report explores how African constitutional provisions can be utilized to create real, enforceable environmental rights. African countries do have different legal traditions, namely, common law, civil law, and Islamic law, as well as some hybrid systems. Nevertheless, these legal systems share many common underlying principles and values, particularly fundamental human rights that are embodied in their respective constitutions.

Almanac of Enforceable State Laws to Control Nonpoint Source Water Pollution
Author
James M. McElfish Jr., Environmental Law Institute
Date Released
December 1998
Almanac of Enforceable State Laws to Control Nonpoint Source Water Pollution

This report provides a state-by-state summary, including Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, of enforcement-based laws that are potentially applicable to nonpoint source water pollution. This study discusses the diversity and ubiquity of state legal mechanisms as well as the inconsistent treatment of similar problems from one state to the next.

An Analysis of State Superfund Programs: 50-State Study 1995 Update
Author
John A. Pendergrass, Environmental Law Institute
Date Released
January 1996

This 1995 update to our popular series, the study examines the cleanup programs of all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia. The study provides a snapshot of state statutes, program organization, staffing, funding, expenditures, cleanup standards, and cleanup activities.

An Analysis of State Superfund Programs: 50-State Study 1993 Update
Author
John A. Pendergrass, Environmental Law Institute
Date Released
January 1994

This 1993 update to our popular series, the study examines the cleanup programs of all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia. The study provides a snapshot of state statutes, program organization, staffing, funding, expenditures, cleanup standards, and cleanup activities.

An Analysis of State Superfund Programs: 50-State Study 1990 Update
Author
John A. Pendergrass, Environmental Law Institute
Date Released
December 1990

This 1990 update to our popular series, the study examines the cleanup programs of all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia. The study provides a snapshot of state statutes, program organization, staffing, funding, expenditures, cleanup standards, and cleanup activities.

An Analysis of State Superfund Programs: 50-State Study 1991 Update
Author
John A. Pendergrass, Environmental Law Institute
Date Released
December 1991

This 1991 update to our popular series, the study examines the cleanup programs of all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia. The study provides a snapshot of state statutes, program organization, staffing, funding, expenditures, cleanup standards, and cleanup activities.

Greening the Budget 2005: 6 Ways to Save Taxpayer Dollars and Protect the Environment in the Commonwealth of Virginia
Date Released
November 2004
Greening the Budget 2005 is a Green Scissors report sponsored by a consortium of Virginia NGOs led by the Virginia League of Conservation Voters Education Fund. The report examines fiscal and environmental policies of the Commonwealth of Virginia and identifies six practices that both cost taxpayers money and harm the environment. Based on these practices, the report makes six recommendations designed to help frame public policy debates in Virginia and push state budget cuts that simultaneously save taxpayer dollars and protect the environment.
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