Environmental Legal Research Guide: Quick Links

Founded in 1971, it is a nonprofit organization that works to litigate environmental issues.

The EnviroLink Network is a non-profit organization which has been providing access to thousands of online environmental resources since 1991.

Since 1967, Environmental Defense Fund is a leading national nonprofit organization representing more than 700,000 members. EDF evaluates environmental problems and works to create and advocate solutions.

"The Institute’s mission is to advance environmental protection by improving environmental law, policy, and management. Since 1969, ELI has played a pivotal role in shaping the fields of environmental law, policy, and management, domestically and abroad. Today, we enter our fifth decade as an internationally recognized, non-partisan research and education center working to strengthen environmental protection by improving law and governance worldwide."

founded in 1905, this organization protects birds and their habitat.

NRDC was founded in 1970 by a group of law students and attorneys at the forefront of the environmental movement. NRDC lawyers helped write some of America's bedrock environmental laws. Today, our staff of more than 300 lawyers, scientists and policy experts -- a MacArthur "genius" award-winner among them -- work out of offices in New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Beijing.

Founded in 1951, this organization is works to conserve lands and waters for their own sake.

Riverkeeper, known as NY's clean water advocate, is a "member-supported watchdog organization dedicated to defending the Hudson River and its tributaries and protecting the drinking water supply of nine million New York City and Hudson Valley residents."

The Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation is a "collaborative educational non-profit organization dedicated to the scholarly and practical study of the law and regulations relating to mining, oil and gas, water, public lands, land use, conservation, environmental protection, and other related areas."

The Club is America's oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organization.