Over the past few years, online environmental databases have grown to the point where many users are confused by the chaotic availability of information. To address this confusion, and to promote an understanding of the environmental framework of NAFTA countries, the Commission is creating an inventory and directory of legal databases. The Comparative Environmental Law Database Directory will provide online access to summaries of the environmental law frameworks for Canada, Mexico and the US, as well as an annotated directory for assisting users to identify and access existing databanks which contain the environmental laws of the three countries. Cyber-surfers will be able to directly access many of these databases through the Commission’s Internet service. The Directory is being assembled by a team composed of the Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental in Mexico City, the Center for International Environmental Law in Washington DC, the Centre Quebecois du Droit de l’Environnement in Montreal, and the West Coast Environmental Law Association in Vancouver. The Directory will be operational by September.