Start Your Research on Environmental Policy

Websites

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): http://www.epa.gov/epahome/lawregs.htm This is a webpage from the official US government website of the EPA. It will provide you with details about American climate policy and regulations.
Kyoto Protocol: http://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/items/2830.php This website provides access to the provisions of the Kyoto Protocol and its rulebook (including the text of the protocol itself). The protocol was meant to give countries limits and reduction targets on their greenhouse gases emissions.
Cornell Law School: U.S. Code Collection: http://www.epa.gov/compliance/nepa/index.html This website presents the National Environmental Policy and its impact statements. You can also access the full-text of the ACt at: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode42/usc_sup_01_42_10_55.html
Europa: Environment: http://europa.eu/pol/env/index_en.htm This website is the official portal of the European Union for environmental issues.
Asian Development Bank: Environment in Asia: http://www.adb.org/Environment/ This website provides background information and news on environmental issues in Asia.

Books

Brown, Lester Russell. Plan B 2.0 : Rescuing a Planet under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble. 1st ed. New York: Norton, 2006.
Call Number: HC79 .E5 B7595 2006

Nakaya, Andrea, ed. America in the Twenty-first Century. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven P, 2006.
Call Number: HC110 .E5 A645 2006

Diamond, Jared M. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. New York: Viking, 2005.
Call Number: HN13 .D5 2005

Duffy, Robert J. The Green Agenda in American Politics: New Strategies for the Twenty-first Century. Lawrence, KS: U P of Kansas, 2003.
Call Number: GE197 .D84 2003

Articles

Search in EBSCOHost-Academic Search Premier for articles in magazines and journals.
Use a subject search using the keywords Environmental Policy AND Global Warming
Link:http://web.ebscohost.com

Search in LexisNexis for articles in newspapers.

Start by clicking on the red tab labeled “News” on the top of the screen
Type your keywords. Try Al Gore and Inconvenient Truth
Select a date range. Two years is a good starting point

Link: http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic/search/flap.do?flapID=news &random=0.15183284298531574

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