Environmental Health | Children’s Environmental Health | Pesticides | Toxics and the Courts | Toxic Chemical Information | Toxic Pollution Databases | 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:
- 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 Childrens 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
Toxics and the Courts
- Chemical Injury and the Courts: A Litigation Guide for Clients and Their Attorneys – Linda Price King
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):
- Environmental Protection Agency
- 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
- 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
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)
- 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
- National Pollutant Release Inventory (Canada)
- Chemical Release Inventory (UK)