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RACHEL’S HAZARDOUS WASTE NEWS #228
—April 10, 1991—
News and resources for environmental justice.
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NEW DATABASE AVAILABLE ON
RACHEL–ALL THE POLLUTERS SUED BY EPA, 1972-1990.
We have added a new database to Rachel (our online computerized
data system accessible to the public via modem). It contains
11,389 records from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s
Civil Enforcement Docket; basically, it is a record of every
civil lawsuit EPA has brought against polluters in federal court
from 1972 through 1990. (There were not 11,389 suits brought;
there were 2281 but they involved 11,389 separate defendants. In
some individual cases, such as a large Superfund lawsuit, a
hundred or more individuals and companies might be named as
defendants.)
As with all the databases in Rachel, you can search this new one
by every word in every document. For example, you can type in a
company name like Westinghouse and get all the Westinghouse
records. Or you can type in Kingston and get all records for
towns named Kingston. Or you can type in a postal code for a
state like NH (for New Hampshire) and get all records for the
state of New Hampshire. Type Davis and you’ll get several records
about individuals named Davis who have been sued by EPA.
The raw data from this new database comes from U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency’s Civil Enforcement Docket, sold on diskettes
by National Technical Information Service (NTIS; 5285 Port Royal
Rd., Springfield, VA 22161; phone (703) 487-4650). Order item No.
PB91-591970S. $320.00.
Rachel stands for “Remote Access Chemical Hazards Electronic
Library” though it was really named for Rachel Carson, a true
hero of our time. To get a free account on the Rachel computer
system, write us.
–Peter Montague, Ph.D.
Descriptor terms: epa; civil enforcement docket; computer;
superfund; lawsuits; courts; databases; ntis;