Local Environmental Health Information
Air Pollution: Outdoor and Indoor
Greenhouse Effect and Climate Change
American Public Information on Environment: Information and links relating to environmental education for the general public.
CDC National Center for Environmental Health: Provides brochures and fact sheets on a variety of topics, including lead poisoning, air pollution, extreme heat and cold, and health and safety issues following floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, and other types of emergencies and disasters.
Earth Times: An international online newspaper devoted to global environmental issues.
Environmental Defense Fund: Provides information on many environmental health problems as well as tips for individual action. Site also has interactive assessments, including one that calculates the amount of pollution your car produces each year.
Environmental Health Clearinghouse (EHC): Provides fact sheets and answers to frequently asked questions about many environmental problems.
Environmental News Network: Provides daily environmental news and special reports in print, audio, and video.
Know Your Environment: An online magazine with articles about a variety of environmental issues; published by the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.
National Association of Physicians for the Environment: An organization of physicians dedicated to disseminating information about the impact of pollutants on health and on ways to reduce or eliminate pollutants.
National Safety Council Environmental Health Center: Provides information on lead, radon, indoor air quality, hazardous chemicals, and other environmental issues.
NIH National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: Provides fact sheets and pamphlets about environmental-related diseases and health risks.
OneWorld Online: A community of and gateway to international organizations that focus on human rights, sustainable development, and the environment.
Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC): A coalition of student and youth environmental groups; includes contact information for local groups.
United Nations Environment Programme: Provides information on international treaties developed to deal with environmental issues.
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization: Environmental Links: A collection of links on environmental issues.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Provides information about EPA activities and many consumer-oriented materials relating to environmental health.
Browse a list of EPA topics: to find information on a particular subject; see also the listings under specific environmental issues below.
World Health Organization: Provides information about global environmental problems and programs.
World Resources Institute: Conducts research and encourages implementation of environmentally healthy policies; also develops and disseminates tools for environmental education.
Worldwatch Institute: A public policy research organization focusing on emerging global environmental problems and the links between the world economy and the environment.
Local Environmental Health Information
Environmental Defense Fund Pollution Scorecard: Enter your zip code and find out about the pollution levels in your community as well as key local sources of different types of pollutants.
EPA AIRNOW: Provides real-time air pollution data for many regions of the United States.
EPA Index Search: Allows users to search by their zip code for information about pollution levels, hazardous waste sites, and other environmental health problems in their community.
EPA’s Surf Your Watershed: Locate your watershed using a map or zip code search and then retrieve information about the source and status of your local water supply; links to other types of information about the local environment are also included in the search results.
EPA Superfund Site Information: Provides information about the Superfund program.
National Priorities List Map: Provides information about the Superfund sites in your community.
A basic query search: will locate Superfund sites in your community.
U.S. Geological Survey: Acid Rain Maps: To see a U.S. map of showing rain pH, click on "view and download U.S. maps of atmospheric deposition," select the map for the most recent year, and then choose an appropriate format for the pH map. (Normal rain has a pH between about 5.0 and 6.5; precipitation with a pH value less than 5.0 is considered acid rain.)
Environment Canada: Acid Rain: Includes basic information about the causes and effects of acid rain.
EPA: Acid Rain: Provides background information about the sources and effects of acid rain and descriptions of current programs designed to control it.
U.S. Geological Survey: Acid Rain: Provides information on current acid rain measurements and on the effects of acid rain.
Air Pollution: Outdoor and Indoor
American Lung Association: Air Quality: Provides information about outdoor and indoor air pollution and their effects on human health.
EPA: Air Pollution Provides information on many issues relating to air quality:
Air Quality Planning and Standards: (General air quality, sources of major pollutants, toxic pollutants, and visibility.)
Office of Mobile Sources: (Motor vehicles, fuels, and engines.)
Healthy Indoor Air for America’s Homes: Provides information about many different sources of indoor air pollutants.
National Safety Council Environmental Health Center: Indoor Air Quality: Includes fact sheets and educational materials on indoor air quality.
National Safety Council Environmental Health Center: Mobile Sources of Air Pollution: Provides background information on pollution from motor vehicles and tips on buying and maintaining a car to reduce emissions.
EPA Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics: Provides information on a variety of topics relating to chemical pollution; the EPA has separate sites for many types of chemical pollution, including the following:
National Safety Council Environmental Health Center: Hazardous Chemicals: Provides fact sheets on many toxic and carcinogenic chemicals, including information on their sources and potential health effects.
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development: Office of Lead Hazard Control: Provides background information on lead poisoning as well as tips for protecting children.
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network (EREN)/U.S. Department of Energy: Provides information about alternative fuels and tips for saving energy at home and in your car.
Energy Information Administration: Provides statistics and information about energy production and use in the United States and in the world
Home Energy Saver: Developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, this interactive site helps consumers identify ways to help save the most energy in their homes and lower their energy bills.
Greenhouse Effect and Climate Change
Climate Change and Human Health Integrated Assessment Web: Provides information about the potential impacts of climate change on human health.
EPA: Global Warming: Provides background information on the earth’s climate, material on causes and potential effects of global warming, suggested actions, and links.
Methane and Other Greenhouse Gases: Provides additional EPA information focusing on greenhouse gases.
Global Warming: Focus on the Future: An online exhibit covering all aspects of global warming.
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies: Provides information and data relating to global warming and other climate-related issues.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Paleoclimatology Program: A Paleo Perspective on Global Warming: Includes information on the world’s climate system, how the climate has changed over time, and the instruments scientists use to study climate.
EPA: Ozone: Provides information on the causes and effects of ozone depletion and strategies for preventing further ozone loss.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: TOMS Ozone information: Maps, data, and animation of current and historical atmospheric ozone levels.
Current level of ozone over your house: An interactive site that indicates the ozone level where you live; to complete this activity, you may need to obtain your latitude and longitude from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Gazetteer.
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center: Tracks levels of stratospheric ozone and other climate variables.
Ozone Action: A public interest group that focuses on ozone depletion and global warming.
Ozone Hole tour: An illustrated look at the science behind the Antarctic ozone hole.
Population Reference Bureau: Provides information and analysis of U.S. and world population trends.
United Nations Population Division: Provides information on current and projected population trends and the implications of population growth.
United Nations Population Fund: Provides further UN information regarding the population fund..
EPA: Radiation Protection Division: Provides information about sources of radiation, possible effects on health, and methods of protection.
The Students Page: contains an online assessment of your personal annual radiation dose.
EPA: Radon: Provides answers to frequently asked questions and many consumer-oriented brochures about radon.
National Safety Council Environmental Health Center: Radon: Provides a variety of consumer-oriented fact sheets and information about state-specific contacts; the National Safety Council also sells home radon testing kits.
University of Michigan Student Chapter of the Health Physics Society: Radiation and Health Physics: Provides background information on all sources of radiation and their effects and potential effects on human health and the environment.
EPA: Recycling: Provides background information on recycling and tips for recycling and reducing solid waste.
EPA Office of Solid Waste: Provides additional information on dealing with waste.
Garbage: Provides information and links about ways to reduce solid and hazardous waste.
Keep America Beautiful: Provides information about how to reduce, reuse, recycle, and handle waste materials.
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse: Junk Mail information: Provides information about how national mailing lists are developed and how to reduce junk mail.
Other Environmental Health Issues
CDC National Center for Infectious Diseases: Provides information about infectious diseases that are transmitted by animal and insect vectors. See especially the following:
Division of Vector-Borne Infectious
Diseases and
A to Z listing of specific diseases
EPA Office of Water: Provides information on water quality standards, drinking water protection, and wastewater management.
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders: Presents information on noise, hearing loss, and tinnitus.
See also the links for Chapter 12 on food safety and Chapter 17 on infectious diseases.
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