Environmental Studies Subject Guide

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Key Internet Resources

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency


General Policy Web Sites

Right-to-Know Network

Environmental Research Foundation (for back issues of Rachel's Health Weekly)

Environmental Link: The Online Environmental Community

Pennsylvania Chemical Industry Council

Web Directory (a major environmental search engine).

Environmental Issues

Environmental Defense (Scorecard: the Pollution Information Site)


EPA Web Sites:

EPA Home Web Site (The EPA's main web page.)

TRI Web Site

TRI Interpretation Data

TRI Explorer (a user-friendly tool for accessing TRI data)

The Environmental Justice Geographic Assessment (A useful tool for demographic and
environmental impact assessment -- some in GIS format.)

EPA Region 3 (Local Region 3 home page)

EPA Compliance Record (The complete compliance record for the EPA and State inspections for over 80,000 facilities.)

Environfacts Data Warehouse (The EPA's major link to numerous valuable databases.)

Student Environmental Action Coalition

Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (local group that is working with communities on environmental health and justice)

PA ACTION (Trains local activists)

Corporate Impact on the Environment:

Corporate Welfare Information Center

The Multinational Monitor

Corporate Watch

Penn Future

American Chemistry Council

Environmental health news and epidemiology

The Center for Health, the Environment and Justice

Environmental Health News

 Our Stolen Future Web Site (put out by the authors of Our Stolen Future)

Grist Magazine (an on-line compilation of breaking environmental news from national and international sources)

Alternet (Online News from the Alternative Press current affairs)

PA. Dept. of Environmental Protection (a central source for on-line data and articles on almost any research topic you are working on)

 

NGO websites

NGOs: Environmentally Sustainable Development
A list maintained at Duke of NGOs relating to Sustainable Development


The Obama Administration's plan for the Environment

The White House's Page for Energy & Environment

 

The Obama-Biden Plan for Energy & Environment

 

Perspectives on the Bush Administration's Environmental Record

Pacific Research Institute (A conservative think tank that supplied many of the officials in the Bush Administration and defends its record while criticizing environmental nay-sayers).

Natural Resource Defense Council (The home page for the Natural Resource Defense Council's ongoing critique of the Bush Administrations environmental record).

 

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