This Research Guide was created primarily to support students in the Toxic Torts seminar, but It will also be useful for anyone who is researching environmental issues. The Guide gathers resources from the Library's digital and print collection, as well as carefully selected tools and resources available on the Web. Many of these resources are subscriptions that are only available to current UB School of Law students, faculty, and staff. The content is organized into secondary sources (discussion of the law) and primary sources (the law itself). As a general rule, scholarly research is more efficient if the researcher starts with secondary sources to get an overview of a topic, and then turns to primary sources.
Finding, refining, and updating research topics is much easier if you regularly monitor the news and scholarship in your discipline. The UB Law Library has created a Research Guide for Alerts and Current Awareness that shows how to set up automatic searches that will push new information to you.
Here are some current awareness resources specific to Toxic Torts issues:
Environment and Safety Resource Center(Bloomberg/BNA) -- aggregates all of Bloomberg/BNA's resources on environmental and safety issues, including primary and secondary materials.
Toxics Law Reporter (Bloomberg/BNA) -- a weekly review of significant developments in toxic torts, hazardous waste, and related insurance litigation.
Environment Reporter (Bloomberg/BNA) -- Coverage of environmental news from courts, Congress, federal agencies, state legislatures, industry, and environmental organizations. Published weekly.
Daily Environment Reporter (Bloomberg/BNA) -- coverage of U.S. and international environmental news. Published each business day.
Chemical Regulation Reporter (Bloomberg/BNA) -- Coverage of the regulation of every stage in the chemical life cycle, including HAZMAT guidance. Published weekly.
Right-To-Know Planning Guide Report (Bloomberg/BNA) -- Coverage of federal and state compliance information for facility managers responsible for handling community right-to-know issues. Published every other week.
Product Safety & Liability Reporter (Bloomberg/BNA) -- Coverage of developments and issues in product safety and liability litigation and regulation.. Published weekly.
Occupational Safety and Health Reporter (Bloomberg/BNA) -- Coverage of legal developments affecting employee safety. Published weekly.
