Environmental Law Program: Judicial Nominations

• This Sierra Club Web page contends that judicial nominees who favor certain current notions of federalism threaten environmental legislation.

Hostile Environment: How Activist Judges Threaten Our Air, Water, and Land

• This report from the Natural Resources Defense Council, Community Rights Counsel and Alliance for Justice tracks "a pattern of anti-environmental activism...by judges appointed by Presidents Bush and Reagan."

Packing the Courts: President Bush's Nominees to Lifetime Federal Judgeships Threaten the Environment

• This summary from Earthjustice provides an overview of current judicial nominees whose ideology and history, it argues, puts environmental legislation at risk.