Toxics, Environmental Health and Pollution Mapping Projects

Environmental Health

• Environmental Health News (breaking news on recent science on environmental health)
• Collaborative on Health and the Environment (their latest news is here)
• Our Stolen Future (the webpage continues where the book left off, documenting the harms of dioxins and other endocrine disrupting, hormone-mimicking chemicals; their latest news is here)
• The Cancer Industry (corporate conflicts of interest in the breast cancer movement, including info on the boycott of the American Cancer Society)
• Environmental Health Perspectives (scientific journal)
• Chemical Body Burden
• Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
• Alliance for Safe Alternatives
• Environmental Health Alliance (Precautionary Principle resources)
• Inconclusive By Design: Waste, Fraud and Abuse in Federal Environmental Health Research
  [an expose of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)]
• Toxins in Products:
  • Consumer Goods:
    • Good Guide
  • Building Materials:
    • Perkins+Will Transparency site (asthma triggers, flame retardants and much more)
  • Cosmetics:
    • Skin Deep (A safety assessment of ingredients in personal care products)
    • The Story of Cosmetics (video)
    • Campaign for Safe Cosmetics

Children's Environmental Health

• Children's Health Environmental Coalition
• Children's Environmental Health Network
• Institute For Children's Environmental Health
• Physicians for Social Responsibility's children's environmental health site
• Preventing Harm
• Environmental Health Perspectives -- Children's Health Section (scientific journal)
• CHEJ's Childproofing Our Communities Campaign
• Center for Children’s Health and the Environment
• New York Healthy Schools Network
• Birth Defect Research for Children (sponsor of National Birth Defect Registry)

Pesticides

• Pesticide Action Network of North America (PANNA)
• PANNA's Pesticide Database
• New York Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
• Beyond Pesticides
• Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
• The Bug Stops Here

Toxic Chemical Information

• Toxicant and Disease Database
• Environmental Defense Chemical Profiles
• INCHEM: Chemical Safety Information from Intergovernmental Organizations (International Programme on Chemical Safety)
• European Chemicals Agency - Information on Chemicals
• EPA Chemical and Substance Reports
• Widespread Pollutants with Endocrine-disrupting Effects
• NJ Department of Health Factsheets (written for workers; easy to understand)
• Chemical Hazardous and Alternatives Toolbox (ChemHAT)
• GreenScreen Chemical Assessments
• Toxicology Data Network (Toxnet) (U.S. National Library of Medicine)
• ChemExpr (searchable chemical database which includes chemical formulas and structure diagrams)
• HERO Database: Studies used in U.S. EPA Science Assessments
• Continuous Emissions Monitoring
• Dioxins
• Fluorides and Water Fluoridation
• Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs):
  • PAH Database
  • General Information about PAHs
• Environmental Protection Agency
  • EPA's Hazardous Air Pollutant (HAP) List
  • EPA Envirofacts Warehouse Chemical References Index
  • IRIS Database of Toxic Chemical Factsheets
    
  • EPA Chemical Fact Sheets
• ATSDR (CDC's Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry)
  • ToxFAQs (bite-sized versions of the Public Health Statements)
  • Toxic Substances links
  • Toxic Substances Portal
  • Toxicological Profiles (chapters can be downloaded in PDF)
  • Public Health Statements (summaries of the Toxicological Profiles)
• Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards (CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health)
• Material Safety Data Sheets
  • Hazard.com
  • National MSDS Respository / MSDS Search
• Carcinogen Status
  • Chemical Carcinogens (NJ Department of Health)
  • Chemicals considered by the state of California to Cause Cancer or Reproductive Toxicity
    (pursuant to the California Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act - Proposition 65)
  • International Agency for Research on Cancer
    • Definitions
    • Search
    • Complete List by Groups of Chemicals Studied
    • Complete List by Carcinogen Classification

Toxic Pollution Databases

• Right To Know Network (RTKnet) (searchable databases)
  • Toxic Release Inventory
  • Spills and Accidents
  • Risk Management Plans
  • Hazardous Waste Generation and Shipment
  • Hazardous Waste Violations
  • RTKnet Links to EPA Databases (including chemical accident and hazardous waste databases)
• ActionPA's Toxic Release Inventory page (has background and history on what is and isn't reported in EPA's TRI database)
• Superfund Toxic Waste Sites (EPA's CERCLIS database)
• National Response Center (federal agency receiving reports of oil and chemical spills)
  • Lookup incidents, drill reports, or download raw data
  • Incident Summaries
  • Query a Standard Incident
• EPA's EnviroFacts (Search multiple EPA toxics databases at once, by location)

Pollution Maps

• Energy Justice Communities mapping project (interactive maps of existing, proposed, closed and defeated dirty energy and waste facilities, the companies behind them, and the people and groups fighting them)
• Scorecard (county pollution profiles, pulls from several databases)
• MapCruzin.com (toxics maps and environmental justice resources)
• Steps to Creating your own Free GIS
• Movement Technology Institute (GIS toxics and demographics mapping for activists)
• GIS Action for Economic and Social Justice
• National Atmospheric Deposition Program (includes maps of mercury pollution in rain)
• Census Bureau's Mapping Tools
• U.S. States
  • Pennsylvania Toxic Release, Mining and Environmental Justice maps
  • New York Toxics maps
  • West Virginia Toxic Release and Mining maps
• National Pollutant Release Inventory (Canada)
• Chemical Release Inventory (UK)

http://www.ejnet.org/toxics/