Resources

Toxics

The Right-to Know-Network provides free access to numerous databases, documents, and other resources on environmental topics such as toxic chemical releases, toxic waste handlers, superfund sites, and regulations.
Washington Toxics Coalition is an organization dedicated to educating the public about toxic wastes in the environment.
The Chemical Scorecard is a chemical information service provided by the Environmental Defense Fund. Enter your zip code to identify polluters in your community. Learn about hazardous chemicals and their health effects and recommendations on what you can do if you find toxic contamination in your community.
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services whose mission it is to prevent exposure and adverse human health effects and diminished 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 toxic contamination, as well as a glossary of terms used by government and industry.
Environmental Protection Agency Toxic Release Inventory
Our Stolen Future is a groundbreaking book and now also a website, which reports scientific discoveries about endocrine disruption, bringing awareness of how common contaminants may interfere with the natural signals controlling development of the fetus. The website tracks recent developments relevant to contaminants and their effects on the endocrine system.

Pesticides

Beyond Pesticides works with allies to protect public health and the environment and to lead the transition to a world free of toxic pesticides.
Californians for Pesticide Reform is a coalition of over 185 public interest groups dedicated to protecting human health and the environment from the dangers of pesticides.
Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (NCAP) works to protect people and the environment by advancing healthy solutions to pest problems. Provide news and information on pesticide issues.
Pesticide Action Network’s Alternatives to Pesticides Database. The Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Pesticide Database is your one-stop location for toxicity and regulatory information for pesticides.
Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA). Organization that works to replace the use of hazardous pesticides with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives.
State of Alaska: State Pesticide Program
State of Alaska: Public Notices and Proposed Regulations by the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC)
What’s on My Food: Pesticides on Food is a searchable database designed to make the public problem of pesticide exposure visible and more understandable.

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Indigenous Peoples

International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) Organization of Indigenous Peoples from the Americas and the Pacific working for the sovereignty and self-determination of Indigenous Peoples and the recognition and protection of indigenous rights, traditional cultures and sacred lands.
Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) 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 the traditional teachings and natural laws.
Inuit Circumpolar Council is an international non-government organization representing approximately 150,000 Inuit of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Chukotka (Russia). The organization holds Consultative Status II at the United Nations.

Environmental Justice

Environmental Justice/Environmental Racism has links to environmental justice documents and websites.
Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ)
Environmental Justice for All. A 2007 tour of chemically contaminated communities of color and the health effects found there.

Environmental Health Journals

Environmental Health Perspectives. Published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), Environmental Health Perspectives is a monthly journal of peer-reviewed research and news on the impact of the environment on human health. Articles are available online free of charge.
Environmental Health Journal is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal. This EH journal is aimed at scientists and practitioners in all areas of environmental science where human health and well-being are involved, either directly or indirectly. Environmental Health is a public health journal serving the public health community and scientists working on matters of public health interest and importance pertaining to the environment.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is an interdisciplinary Open Access journal, published by MDPI online monthly.
Journal of Environmental and Public Health is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes original research articles, review articles, case reports, and clinical studies in all areas of environmental and public health.
Journal of Environmental Health Research is a peer reviewed journal featuring original research papers, review articles, technical notes and professional evaluations covering the diverse range of topics which impinge on environmental health.

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Environmental Health Websites

The Collaborative on Health and the Environment is a collaborative of over 3000 partners, including health professionals, scientists, academicians, and others interested in the most robust science linking environmental threat with health outcomes. CHE maintains a comprehensive listing of environmental health resources, searchable by health issue, environmental/toxic issue and target audience.

Environmental Health News. Daily links to top stories in the news about environmental health. This free news service can be subscribed to on the website.

Chemical Body Burden and Biomonitoring

Commonweal Biomonitoring Resource Center Commonweal is a nonprofit health and environmental research institute in Bolinas, California. Founded in 1976, Commonweal conducts programs that contribute to human and ecosystem health — to a safer world for people and for all life.
Chemical Body Burden. The information on this site has been developed through the collaboration of health professionals, scientists, citizens groups and environmental organizations concerned about the chemical body burden we all carry and its health effects - known and unknown.
The Endocrine Disruption Exchange (TEDX) founded by Dr. Theo Colborn, is a non-profit organization dedicated to compiling and disseminating the scientific evidence on the health and environmental problems caused by low-dose exposure to chemicals that interfere with development and function, called endocrine disruptors.

Safer Alternatives to Products Containing Toxics

Pollution in People: Less Toxic Product Choices provides recommendations on how to avoid toxics found in everyday products and identifies some responsible companies that are reducing or eliminating toxic additives in their products.
The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is a nonprofit coalition effort dedicated to eliminating chemicals linked to cancer, birth defects and other health problems. The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is working to secure the corporate, regulatory and legislative reforms necessary to eliminate dangerous chemicals from cosmetics and personal care products.
Environmental Working Group (EWG). The mission of EWG is to use the power of public information to protect public health and the environment. EWG specializes in providing useful resources to consumers while simultaneously pushing for national policy change.
Women’s Voices for the Earth is a national organization that works to eliminate toxic chemicals that impact women’s health by changing consumer behaviors, corporate practices and government policies.

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Mining

MiningWatch Canada provides tools for communities to understand, evaluate and address key issues raised by mineral development.
Project Underground (archived website) was a San Franciso based non-government organisation that investigated and campaigned on environmental, human rights and indigenous rights impacts of the mining and oil and gas industries. Following a dramatic fall in foundation funding in approximately 2003, the group ceased to operate. For several years the group's website continued to operate, but this was shut down in 2006. However, the group's website has been archived in the WaybackMachineerves communities threatened by the mining and oil industries.
Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands (REDOIL). The REDOIL network is a program of the Indigenous Environmental Network. REDOIL works to address the detrimental impacts of oil and gas development in Alaska.

Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

International POPs Elimination Network (IPEN) is a global network of approximately 700 public interest, non-governmental organizations united in support of a common POPs Elimination Platform. The mission of IPEN is to work for the global elimination of persistent organic pollutants, on an expedited yet socially equitable basis.
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants is a global treaty to eliminate the production and use of chemical substances that persist in the environment, bio-accumulate through the food web, and pose a risk of causing adverse effects to human health and the environment.

State & National Chemicals Policy Reform

Safer States is a network of diverse environmental health coalitions and organizations in 16 states around the country working on state legislation for environmental health protections from chemicals.
Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families is a nationwide effort to pass smart federal policies that protect us from toxic chemicals. Safer Chemical Act Fact Sheet.

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Alaska Organizations

Alaska Coal is a growing coalition of utility ratepayers, health care professionals, commercial, sport and subsistence fishing and hunting interests, and tourism businesses that support clean water, healthy fish and game habitat, sustainable jobs and fixed-cost power from renewable energy.
Alaska Conservation Alliance works to protect Alaska 's air, land and water by empowering Alaskans to participate effectively in the civic arena through voter education, engagement, and advocacy.

Alaska Conservation Foundation (ACF) is the single largest grant maker to Alaska conservation efforts. ACF builds strategic leadership and support for Alaskan efforts to take care of wild lands, waters, and wildlife, which sustain diverse cultures, healthy communities, and prosperous economies.

Alaska Youth for Environmental Action (AYEA) inspires and trains diverse youth leaders to impact environmental issues through community action projects and campaigns; skills training in leadership, environmental education, civic engagement, and community organizing; and green jobs that sustain our communities and future. AYEA is a program of the National Wildlife Federation with nine community chapters around the state and individual youth members from over fifty communities.

Cook Inletkeeper is a citizen based nonprofit group dedicated to protecting Alaska's Cook Inlet Watershed and the life it sustains.
Trustees for Alaska is a non-profit public interest environmental law firm providing legal counsel to protect and sustain Alaska’s natural environment.

Health Care

Alaska Public Health Association (ALPHA) promotes the advancement of public health and quality of life for Alaskans.
Health Care Without Harm is a global coalition of 473 organization in more than 50 countries working to protect health by reducing pollution in the health care sector
Practice Greenhealth is a nonprofit membership organization founded on the principles of positive environmental stewardship and best practices by organizations in the healthcare community.

Nuclear Issues

Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) is an information and networking center for citizens and environmental organizations concerned about nuclear power, radioactive waste, radiation, and sustainable energy issues.

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