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Toxics
The Right to Know Network
RTK NET is a network providing free access to numerous databases, text files, and conferences on the environment, housing, and sustainabledevelopment. With the information available on RTK NET, you can identifyspecific factories and their environmental effects in anyzip code in the United States via their searchable Toxic Release Inventory database.
The Chemical Scorecard
A chemical information service provided by the Environmental Defense Fund. This site is packed with resources to help you identify polluters in yourcommunity, details about hazardous chemicals and their health effects, andrecommendations on what you can do if you find toxic contamination in your community.
Environmental Research Foundation
Publishers of Rachel's Environment and Health Weekly, providing "News & Resources for Environmental Justice" with in-depth,documented examinationsof the scientific, political, and social foundations of environmental and health issues.
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
The mission of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry(ATSDR), as an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and HumanServices, is to prevent exposure and adverse human health effects anddiminished quality of life associated with exposure to hazardous substances from waste sites, unplanned releases, and other sources of pollution present in the environment. This site contains information on toxiccontamination, as well as a great glossary of terms used by government and industry.
National Oil Refinery Action Network
Sponsored by Citizens for a Better Environment (CBE), this organization has been a regional leader in reforming petrochemical manufacturingin the San Francisco Bay Area through winning pollution prevention, policy reform, and community benefit commitments.
U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
The USCSHIB is an independent federal agency which was created to improveworker and community safety by investigating, and then developing andcommunicating recommended operations involved in the production, transportation, and industrial handling, use and disposal of chemicals.
Mining
MiningWatch
The aim of this site is to provide the tools community organizations need to understand, gauge, and address key issues raised by mineral development,from exploration to mine closure.
Project Underground
The mission of this site to to support communities threatened by the mining and oil industries. Project Underground targets the range of interests from industry insurers to investors to the public in order to introducecorporate accountability to these sectors. They also work to develop an ethic of consumer responsibility for efficient and sustainable mineral use.
Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN)
The Indigenous Environmental Network is an alliance of grassroots indigenous peoples whose mission is to protect the sacredness of Mother Earth from contamination and exploitation by strengthening maintaining and respecting thetraditional teachings and the natural laws.
Planet Peace
Planet Peace is run by Indigenous community organizers and activistsdedicated to the world-wide distribution of information regarding Indigenous and Environmental grassroots initiatives from around the globe. Their mission is to convey, inform, educate, and promote those principles which are dedicated to the protection and preservation of indigenous cultures, traditional customs and ceremonies.
Nuclear issues
Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS)
NIRS is an information and networking center for citizens and environmental organizations concerned about nuclear power, radioactive waste, radiation, and sustainable energy issues.
Nuclear Flashback: Report of a Greenpeace scientific expedition to Amchitka Island, Alaska -- Site of the largest underground nuclear test in U.S. history. A fact-filled report every Alaskan should read.
Other Resources
OneWorld Online
OneWorld Online is a partnership of over 100 organizations working for human rights and sustainable development, and to broadcast an alternative world agenda, an "agenda for a fairer world." They maintain a largedatabase of environmental and human rights articles, searchable by subject and geography.
Corporate Watch
Corporate Watch is an online magazine and resource center designed toprovide every day Internet users -- activists, journalists, students, teachers and policy makers -- with an array of tools that you can use to investigate and analyze corporate activity.
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