Business, Government & Law
- CEQ NEPANET
This is the page for the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and NEPA
(National Environmental Policy Act).
- Congressional Research Service Reports
Excellent site for full text reports. There is a subject index, which lets
you go directly to the topic of interest.
- DOE Directives
Department of Energy Directives include Policies, Orders, Notices, Manuals,
and Guides.
- DOE Technical Standards
This site contains full-text DOE technical standards.
- Environmental
Justice Information Page
Put together by the Pace University School of Law, this site is arranged
topically. This makes it easier to identify particular laws. It is an EXCELLENT
site.
- Environmental Laws
& Treaties
- Environmental
Law on the Internet
- EPA Laws and Regulations
Major Environmental Protection Laws. A very good site for full text and
summaries of all Major Environmental Laws.
- EPA: Chemical Registry System
"Provides information on chemical substances and how they are represented
in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations and data systems.
Developed in response to recommendations of the Chemical Data Standard Working
Group, the CRS supports and conforms to EPA's Chemical Identification Data
Standard, which provides a uniform way of referring to chemical substances
and is a basis for sharing chemical information across EPA data systems."
- Illinois Pollution Control Board
Site for Illinois Environmental laws/regulations. Full text available. Easy
to search. (NOTE: No full text laws/regulations are at the Illinois EPA
website) see also Illinois Law Resources for other Illinois law resources.
- International Organization for Standardization
(ISO)
The ISO is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies from some
130 countries, one from each country. ISO's work results in international
agreements which are published as International Standards.
- Office of Enforcement and Compliance
Assurance
Delivers compliance with U.S. environmental laws while inspiring the regulated
community to employ methods that focus on pollution prevention.
Some Individual State Sites for the Environment:
- CSEN Global List of WEBSITES on
Patents
- Current tips
- Espace
A searchable database of over 25 million international patents made available
through the European Patent Office. Choose to search European (EP) patents,
PCT (WO) patents, Japanese patents or patents worldwide. (Click down until
you reach choices).
- Free Patents Online
Provides free PDF downloading of US patents since patent number 4,000,000.
- Internet Patent News
Legal resources and tools for surviving the patenting frenzy of the Internet,
bioinformatics, and electronic commerce. Includes links to websites for
inventors and lawyers, an archive of 'bad' patents, and a list of patent
news articles.
- Patent Information Users Group
This is a web page for professional patent searchers. It also has a bibliography
of favorite books on patents and articles on patent searching.
- United States Patent & Trademark
Office
Contains fulltext patent images from 1976 to present. Updated weekly. You
may have to load a TIFF reader to access the fulltext patent images.
- What
every CHEMIST should know about PATENTS
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