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The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)
http://www.ciel.org

CIEL is a public interest not-for-profit environmental law firm that deals with the issues of global commons, biodiversity and wildlife, international financial institutions, trade and the environment, and policy analysis and capacity building.

The Centre for Environmental Law Education, Research and Advocacy - India
http://www.ceeraindia.org/

The site provides information on national developments in environmental law and articles of topical interest.

Environment Canada - Oil, Gas and Energy Branch (OGEB)
http://www.ec.gc.ca/oged-dpge/index.htm

One of the key aspects of the OGEB work is the development of environmental regulations, guidelines and codes of practice. The web site contains information about the branch, their activities, projects, documents available for downloading, list of available publications and links.

The Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India
http://www.envfor.nic.in/

The site contains legal texts of domestic legislation, and other updates on environmental regulations.

Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)
http://www.sepa.org.uk/

The site carries information and data on Scotland's environment, pollution prevention, regulation and other environmental initiatives.

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
http://www.unep.org

UNEP works towards encouraging sustainable development through sound environmental practices everywhere. Its activities cover a wide range of issues, from atmosphere and terrestrial ecosystems, the promotion of environmental science and information, to an early warning and emergency response capacity to deal with environmental disasters and emergencies. The web site contents include latest developments in international environmental regulations, conventions/treaties, publications, and events calendar. Complete 'Global Environment Outlook (GEO) 2000', UNEP's latest state-of-the-environment report, is available on the web site.

United States Environment Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov

EPA is responsible for researching and setting national standards for a variety of environmental programs and delegates to states and tribes responsibility for issuing permits, and monitoring and enforcing compliance. The web site is an information repository of its diverse range of activities in different areas of environment protection. The site includes laws and regulations, standards, publications, directories, databases and softwares, test methods and models and much more.

World Resources Institute (WRI)
http://www.wri.org

WRI provides information, ideas, and solutions to global environmental problems. EarthTrends: The Environmental Information Portal offers most current information in the form of searchable databases, data tables, country profiles, maps and feature articles on a broad range of environmental issues. The Online Bookstore lists out complete WRI publications both alphabetic wise and topic wise.