The OSED Guide

OSED turns proven environmental-litigation instruments — citizen-suit notices, rulemaking petitions, deadline complaints, consent-decree scaffolds, state-constitution packets — into something a local actor can prepare again, where the barrier has been access to drafting capacity rather than the merits of the claim. It drafts; an attorney decides. Every output is a marked DRAFT with its judgment calls flagged for a lawyer, never silently resolved.

Read this first

Before anything else, read the disclaimer — and the full DISCLAIMER at the repository root. OSED produces scaffolding, not filings; using it creates no attorney-client relationship, and nothing it produces is legal advice.

Two ways in

• For communities — if you have an environmental concern and want to understand whether a pathway might exist and how to bring a draft to a lawyer.
• For attorneys — if you practice environmental law and want to use OSED’s instruments, pipeline, and currency tooling in your work.

Shared concepts

Both tracks rest on the same ideas:

• The disclaimer — what OSED is and is not.
• The six invariants — the guardrails every skill enforces.
• The pathways — the line between what a draft can do and what only a lawyer decides.