Environmental Sites: Health & Toxicology

• Acute Toxicity Database
  Summarizes the results from aquatic acute toxicity tests conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey. Provides a relative starting point for hazard assessment of contaminants. The database was initially developed in 1986. Data added since 1986 is clearly labeled.
• American Lung Association
  Focus on health issues related to air quality. From the American Lung Association.
• ATSDR Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
  National Alerts; Health Advisories, ToxFaqs, HazDat Database, Interactive Map Server, Minimal Risk Levels (MRLs), National Exposure Registry; Public Health Assessments; Published Papers; Funding/Grants.
• California Department of Health Services
  Press releases, health warnings, programs, and resources. Click on Organizations, then Prevention Services.
• California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment 
  The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment presents information about environmental health hazards in California and information about the Office and its activities. Included are: materials related implementation of Proposition 65. This includes
  the List of chemicals known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity; art hazards list (list of arts and crafts materials not to be purchased for use in Kindergarten to Sixth Grade); materials on environmental health risks such as environmental
  tobacco smoke, diesel exhaust, air pollutants, drinking water pollutants, consumption of contaminated fish, carcinogens; an educational presentation; Office risk assessment practices, policies, and guidelines; an Office staff directory and descriptions of Office programs and activities. - site intro
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  News items, travelers' health, information about common health-related topics, publications, data & statistics, annual factbook, and hoaxes and rumors. For environmentally-related information, click on Health Topics A-Z, and select Environmental Health.
• Chemical Right to Know Initiative
  EPA Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics.
• Children's Health Protection, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  The Children's Health Protection web pages present: information about environmental health risks to children. Among the risks discussed are asbestos, asthma, lead, indoor and outdoor air quality, carbon monoxide poisoning, sun exposure, food
  quality, insect repellants, environmental tobacco smoke, drinking water. EPA's Children's Environmental Health Yearbook; connections to online EPA publications about children's health and the environment; descriptions of EPA's Office of Children's Health Protection programs and policies; links to outside organizations working on children's environmental health. - site intro
• Congressional Research Service
  New and Updated CRS Reports for August, 1998. Research reports. Topics include: automobile and light truck fuel, electric utility restructuring, water quality, nationwide permits for wetlands projects, superfund reauthorization issues, endangered species, energy efficiency, environmental protection legislation of the 105th congress, renewable energy, Pfiesteria and Related Harmful Blooms.
• Consolidated Table of OEHHA/ARB Approved Risk Assessment Health Values
  "The Consolidated Table of OEHHA/ARB Approved Risk Assessment Health
  Values is a quick look-up table of all cancer potency values and noncancer acute and chronic Reference Exposure Levels (RELs) that are available for use in the AB 2588 Air Toxics "Hot Spots" Program. This table includes cancer potency values and
  noncancer reference exposure levels (RELs) that have been approved by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) and the Air Resources Board (ARB), or are listed in the California Air Pollution Control Officers Association's (CAPCOA)
  Risk Assessment Guidelines (1993). The OEHHA is currently in the process of developing new risk assessment guidelines that will update and replace the CAPCOA guidelines." - site intro 
• Documentation for Immediately Dangerous To Life or Health Concentrations (of Air Pollutants): NIOSH
  "This publication documents the criteria and information sources that have been used by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to determine immediately dangerous to life or health concentrations (IDLHs) [of air for respirator
  selection]. IDLHs were originally determined for 387 substances in the mid-1970's as part of the Standards Completion Program (SCP), a joint project by NIOSH and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), for use in assigning respiratory protection equipment. NIOSH is currently evaluating the scientific adequacy of the criteria and procedures used during the SCP for establishing IDLHs. In the interim, the IDLHs have been reviewed and, (if appropriate) revised. In this document, IDLHs are listed with the basis and references for the current values as well as with the original IDLHs and their documentation (as paraphrased from the SCP draft technical standards)." - site intro
  
• Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program Web Site 
  Chemicals that might be disrupting the endocrine system (glands and hormones) of humans and wildlife.
• Environmental Contaminants Encyclopedia
  Site has an environmental toxicology emphasis and it summarizes information on these issues into a single, easily searchable source. Some human information was also summarized when it was easy to do so or seemed important to general understanding, but the main efforts were directed at summarizing/compiling information of importance to general environmental toxicology rather than human toxicology. - site intro. From the National Park Service.
• Environmental Research Foundation: News and Resources for Environmental Justice
  Firey, frightening reports written about a wide variety of environmental issues and their affects on humans and human health. Understandable scientific information.
• Environmental Working Group
  EWG, a leading content provider for public interest groups and concerned citizens who are campaigning to protect the environment through reports, articles, and technical
  assistance. Areas of special emphasis at EWG have been the threat posed to infants and children by pesticides and other toxic chemicals; the environmental and economic implications of Federal farm programs; drinking water contamination by pesticides and other pollutants; wetlands conservation; budget and appropriations policies affecting the environment, and the impact of campaign contributions on environmental policy. - site intro.
• NIEHS National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
  News, Environmental Health Info, Environmental Health Perspectives, Scientific Research, National Toxicology Program, Environmental Genome Project, National Center for Toxicoligy.
• Persistent Bioaccumulators Project
  Information on the EPA's cross-office multimedia Persistent, Bioaccumulative and Toxic (PBT) Chemicals Initiative.
• PubMed Central
  Free online access to the full text of life science research articles.
• ScoreCard
  Pollution locator. Map generator. Environmental issues include: Criteria Air Pollutants, Hazardous Air Pollutants, Lead Hazards, Potential Sources of Land Contamination, Animal Waste from Factory Farms, Chemical Releases from Industrial Facilities, Clean Water Act Status, Watershed Indicators, and Setting Environmental Priorities. From Environmental Defense.
• Superfund: 20 Years of Protecting Human Health and the Environment
  Report highlights the achievements and evolution of the Superfund program. From the EPA. - mh
• Toxics Release Inventory, EPA
  Information about toxic chemicals that are being used, manufactured, treated, transported, or released into the environment. What chemicals were released into the local environment during the preceding year. How much of each chemical went into the air, water, and land in a particular year. How much of the chemicals were transported away from the reporting facility for disposal, treatment, recycling, or energy recovery. How chemical wastes were treated at the reporting facility. The efficiency of waste treatment. Pollution prevention and chemical recycling activities. - site intro
• TOXNET (Toxicology Data Network)
  Databases include Hazardous Substances Data Bank and Structures; Integrated Risk Information System; Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information System; GENE-TOX - Peer-reviewed mutagenicity test data; TOXLINE; Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology and Environmental Teratology Information Center; Toxics Release Inventory;
  ChemIDPlus; and NCI-3D.
• Vermont Safety Information Resources, Inc.