Environmental Health Sites
* of most interest to parents and caregivers
*Searchable Database of Websites and Other Resources
Use our searchable list of resources, including books, videos, magazines, consumer guides and websites for researchers, parents, health care providers, lawmakers, consumers and others.
Information about Reducing Exposures for Parents and/or Health-care Providers
*protectingourhealth.org, science website for the Collaborative on Health and the Environment
In Harm's Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development Project from Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility
*Inheriting the world:
The atlas of children's health and the environment from the World Health Organization
*Online Health Resources
*Resources relating to toxicology on the "A Small Dose of..." website include audio clips and PowerPoint presentations and other references.
*Children's Health Environmental Coalition (CHEC) Safer Products
*Children's Health Environmental Coalition (CHEC) HealtheHome
*Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSUs)
*How-To Factsheets from Beyond Pesticides
Children's Health and the Environment in North America from the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation, including links to two background papers
Pediatric Environmental History Initiative for health-care providers
*Fact Sheets and Pamphlets from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
The Louisville Charter for Safer Chemicals
*The U.S. National Library of Medicine's (NLM) Household Products Database. The Household Products Database is a consumer guide that provides information on the potential health effects of chemicals contained in more than 6,000 common household products used inside and around the home. This resource helps scientists and consumers learn about ingredients in brand-name products.
*Toxmap from the U.S. National Library of Medicine
*Toxicity and Exposure Assessment for Children's Health (TEACH) from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
*Children's Health Protection site
from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
*Birth Defect Research for Children, including free birth defect information, parent networking and birth defect research through the National Birth Defect Registry
*Toxipedia, a toxicology encyclopedia and resource center
*Safeguarding Kids from Environmental Hazards, from Contemporary Pediatrics, March 1, 2007
Environmental Health News
*Environmental Health News
*Press Release: Pesticides from the Ontario College of Family Physicians
Related Organizations
The Collaborative on Health and the Environment
*Healthy Children Project
The Science Lab Environmental Resources
*The Safe Playgrounds Project regarding the use of Chromated Copper Arsenate (CCA) in playgrounds.
*Searchable database of members of the Partnership for Children's Health and the Environment. This database can be searched by country and state, by constituencies and sectors, or by keywords.
Health Care Without Harm
Eco 4 The World
En Español
*El Portal Español de la Agencia de Protección Ambiental de los Estados Unidos
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Toxics Release Inventory and Community Right-to-Know Sites
U. S. Environmental Protection Agency: www.epa.gov/tri/
National Institutes of Health: toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?TRI
Right-to-Know Network: www.rtknet.org/
Right-to-Know network about proposed reporting reductions: www.rtknet.org/trialert.php
OMB Watch alert about TRI reporting reductions: www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ombwatch/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=1324
Environmental Defense Fund: www.scorecard.org/chemical-groups/one-list.tcl?short_list_name=tri00ry
Community Right-to-Know Group: www.crtk.org/detail.cfm?docID=780&cat=industrial%20toxics
Community Right-to-Know Group – Katrina comment: www.crtk.org/detail.cfm?docID=781&cat=spills%20and%20emergencies
Washington State Community Right-to-Know: www.ecy.wa.gov/epcra/
Seattle Post-Intelligencer article about TRI rollback: seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/245592_polluters22.html
Union of Concern Scientists action letter to Administrator Johnson and EPA staff: ucsaction.org/campaign/11_30_05_toxic_release_inventory?
Consensus Statements
1997 Declaration of the Environment Leaders of the Eight on Children's Environmental Health
The Wingspread Consensus Statement on the Precautionary Principle
Statement from the work session on environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals: Neural, endocrine and behavioral effects, Erice, Sicily, November 1995
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (PDF file)
The Paris Appeal: Calling Attention to the Role of Environmental Contaminants in Cancer
Taking Stock: A Special Report on Toxic Chemicals and Children's Health in North America from the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation
The Collaborative on Health and the Environment Consensus Statement
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