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In alphabetical order by subject. Note: Pages designed for the general public are preceded by an asterisk - * - the other pages are more technical or regulatory pages of more interest to EHS professionals.
- * Aflatoxin (typically in peanut butter)
- * Acid Rain (overview, regs and publications)
- Air pollution
- * Smog, Ozone and Air Pollution - guide and current local conditions
- Free publications about air pollution and your health
- *
Air regs, issues, guidance
- * Clean Air Act overview
- * Frequently asked questions about air pollution
- Guidance Manuals and other free downloads
- Fact sheets
- CAA Operating Permits Guidance, Links & Downloads
- Memos
- State Agency contact information
- Federal Register notices
- CAA Operating Permit Forms
- New Source Performance Standards (NSPS)
and Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) - Clean Air Act 112r requirements
- All about AP-42 Air Emission Factors (Free software here)
- Allergy information
- * Dust mites in your bedding
- * Cockroaches and allergies
- * Fungi and allergies
- * Pollen Calendar A very useful website to tell you what is blooming when in your area! Works anywhere in the world.
- * Allergy and allegan glossary If you can name the allergy, pollen or allergan, it, it is listed here
- * Alzheimer's Disease and aluminum
- Analytical
- Animal Waste - issues, resources, links
- * Anthrax
- * Ants in the home and yard - and pesticides
- *
Asbestos in the home - Overview Information, health effects, background
- * Where Can I Find Asbestos And When Can It Be A Problem?
- * How To Identify Materials That Contain Asbestos
- * Asbestos Exposure: Questions and Answers
- * What Should Be Done About Asbestos In The Home?
includes:- How To Manage An Asbestos Problem
- Asbestos Do's And Don'ts For The Homeowner
- * In California: Asbestos in the home and Workplace in California - what to do
- * Asbestos Professionals: Who Are They And What Can They Do?
includes:- If You Hire A Professional Asbestos Inspector
- Selecting a laboratory to analyze the samples
- If You Hire A Corrective-Action Contractor
- Laboratories Accredited to Analyze Samples for Asbestos
- * Asbestos shingles on your house
- * Mesothelioma: Facts and Resources - symptoms, treatment, etc.
- * Asbestos regulations
- * FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
- * Asbestos resource links
- Asbestos Main Page , for EHS professionals
- * Aspartame (Nutrasweet), diet drinks and your health
- Assessments - environmental site assessments, Phase I and II's, compliance assessments, etc., and some excellent guides to download.
- * Asthma
- Auditing - Environmental auditing, state and EPA policies regarding audits.
- Automobiles
- Choosing and Maintaining an Automobile - Environmental Factors and Information to Consider in Choosing Your Next Car or Operating Your Present Car (including fuel economy charts)
- * Chronology of automobile emission reduction efforts in the U.S.
- * Additional documents on emission standards for cars and light trucks
- * Information on the Tier 2 standards
- * Alternative Fuels for Automobiles
- Environmental compliance information for the automobile industry
- * Bacteria - disease
- Battery recycling and disposal
- Beef
- * Biosolids (sewage and sludge as fertilizer)
- * Bird Fever
- * Birth Weight (low) from living near a landfill
- * Bleach - using bleach to destroy bacteria and biotoxins
- * Bottled water or Tap water? Which is safer?
- * Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (Mad Cow Disease)
- * Breast cancer
- Britain Environmental
- * Caffeine and health effects (on fertility, etc.)
- * Cancer (unusually high number of exposure in area)
- * Candles - burning candles affects indoor air quality
- * Carpet Allergy
- Cell phones, Cancer and Brain Tumors
- * Cellular Communications Towers and Cancer
- CERCLA - Superfund
- Chemical Information - MSDS and data direct from chemical manufacturers - a super guide to manufacturer's MSDS sites.
- * Chemical Sensitivity also called MCS - Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
- *
Children - issues affecting your children
- * Resources to teach kids about the environment
- * More resources from the EPA for kids and teachers
- * Studies of the effects of pollution on children
- * Effects of Indoor Air Pollution on Children
- * Tips about lead exposure and children
- * Teaching kids about Superfund and pollution
- Teen Worker Rights
- Chemical wastes (see Hazardous Waste)
- Chemical Waste Management, Inc.
- Are you a former WMI employee looking for your pension?
- trying to locate other WMI alumni? Email us!
- Christmas trees - natural, living, rooted trees and choose-and-cut tree farms
- Clean Air Act - see Air
- * Cleaning Products
- Clip art, photos and graphics (all free)
- Computers - household electronic waste
- Contingency planning and emergency response , also see Emergency response , below
- * Cosmetics and your health
- * Consumer Health Information
- * Consumer protection
- *
Consumer product safety information
- * Consumer Product Labeling initiative - What does the label mean?
- * Paint - epoxy, urea-formaldehyde, paint fumes, etc.
- * Cockroaches and allergies
- * Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)
- * Crimes - polluters
- * Cryptosporidiosis (in drinking water)
- * Dams - are they worth the costs?
- * Diet drinks, Aspartame (Nutrasweet) and your health
- Disease
- * Disasters
- Disease
- Prevention
- * Washing your hands to protect your health
- Dockets EPA (information related to the rulemaking process. A Docket is composed of Federal Register Notices, the rules, and supporting documentation for the rules)
- DOT - Transportation Main Page (start here if you are unsure)
- Also see "Transportation of hazardous materials" (below)
- DOT regulations
- DOT News
- DOT Federal Register notices
- How to Comply with DOT Hazardous Material Transportation Regulations
- DOT FMCSA permit applications, forms, spill incident report forms, training guides, etc.
- Publications & Guidance
- DOT contacts, links, phone numbers for information and issues
- Training resources to meet DOT requirements
- FAQs - Questions and answers about hazardous material; transportation issues
- State DOT agencies - links & phone numbers
- DOT and NAFTA
- * Drinking Water
- * Drinking water information: bottled water or Tap water? Which is safer? (There are many related pages on drinking water here)
- * Frequently asked questions
- Fact sheets
- * Tips to make your water at home safer and cleaner
- * Check out the quality of YOUR local tap water!
- * National Drinking water standards
- * Certified labs that test drinking water
- Dry cleaning
- * Dust mites - those microscopic bugs that live in your bed, eating your skin and hair!
- * Earthquakes
- The economics of environmental issues
- Educational Resources
- Kids (Ages 4-10, Pre-K through 4 th grade) U.S. EPA Environmental Kids Club - Projects, Games, Art and Helpful Tips
- Students (Grades 5-8) U.S. EPA Student Center - Environmental Concepts, Activities and Tips
- High School (Grades 9-12) U.S. EPA High School Environmental Center
- Teachers (for classroom and non-traditional educators) Environmental Education Center - Basic Environmental Concepts and Teaching Aids
- Office of Environmental Education Grants, training, fellowships, and the President's Environmental Youth Awards
- Researchers Technical Documents, Research Funding and More
- * Eggs (smell of rotten eggs)
- * EMF - Electromagnetic Radiation and your health
- * Employee rights under OSHA
- Emergency Response & Spills
- Oil Spills
- Emergency Response Resources for Terrorism - Chemical Agents
- Hazardous material & Chemical Spills
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How to respond to Emergencies - Guide
- ERG: The Emergency Response Guidebook from the DOT
(This is the little pocket-sized book with the UN/NA numbers and dangers)- Full Version of the ERG2008 (2.8M) (PDF) Print your own copy.
- ERG2008 State Coordinators List
- DOD Point of Contact for the ERG 2008
- Federal Agencies Point of Contact for the ERG 2008
- Summary of Changes from ERG2000 (PDF)
- Search the ERG by Name of Material
- Search the ERG by Identification Number
- Search the Table of Initial Isolation and Protective Action Distances
- Commercial Suppliers of the ERG and more - where to buy
(197K) of:
- Emergency Response Guidebook 2008 (ERG2008)
- DOT Chart 12 (Marking, Labeling, and Placarding Guides)
- Sources of Hazardous Materials Regulations and Other Publications
- Publications Containing International Requirements
- Available Documents and Files
- Spanish version of the 2004 Emergency Response Guide
- * Endocrine Disruptors And Human Health
- * Endotoxin Exposures (in Rural Settings and its Effects on Respiratory Disease)
- Enforcement of environmental regulations and laws
, how to report a potential violation, lists of violators and guidance documents
- Pollutors and environmental criminals - actual summaries of convicted companies and individuals
- Past week's pollutors - many more cases here
- Enforcement publications
- Environmental Impact Statements (EIS)
- Environmental Professionals resource pages:
- Job networking and information for those already in the environmental and safety fields
- * Environmental Performance information - How safe and clean are the companies in YOUR community? Find out here, for free!
- * Environmental Policy for Native Americans on the Reservation
- Environmental Laws and Regulations (HTML)-
Title 40 CFR<
- (or as text and pdf files )
- Including AIR , WATER , PESTICIDE, RADIATION , NOISE, ABATEMENT , OCEAN DUMPING , SOLID AND HAZARDOUS WASTES , SUPERFUND, EMERGENCY PLANNING, AND COMMUNITY RIGHT-TO-KNOW , EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND STANDARDS , SEWAGE SLUDGE , ENERGY POLICY , AND TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL ACT (TSCA)
- EPA
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency contacts, links, phone
numbers and downloads- * Comprehensive links to the EPA and other environmentally related federal web sites
- * Alphabetized list of ALL EPA subjects (may take a few minutes to load!)
- EPA News & Federal Register (new regulations) notices
- EPA/OSWER publications (free download here)
- * U.S. EPA Regional offices contact information
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* EPA Employee locator: Locate the email, phone and mailing address of any employee of the U.S. EPA
- * Environmental laws that give the EPA it's legal support
- EPA environmental regulations - Title 40 of CFR - full text here
- * EPA's budget and work force - current and past
- * Free fact sheets, publications, brochures from the EPA
- EPA Test Methods - including SW-846 - to download free
- EPA Dockets (information related to the rulemaking process. A Docket is composed of Federal Register Notices, the rules, and supporting documentation for the rules)
- EPCRA - Community Right-to-Know
- includes the Form R reporting forms to download, guidance documents, and free software. Also see TRI
below
- EPCRA Guide - detailed guide to the RTK program
- * Epoxy Paint Fumes
- * Ergonomics resources
- Family Health Issues
- * Senior citizens health issues
- Kids - see * children , above
- Farmers
- FDA: Food and Drug Administration
- Federal Government
- * Federal Regulations - environmental regs and laws
- Federal Register Notices & News -all
- FIFRA
- Federal Insecticide, Fungicide,
& Rodenticide Act - also see "Pesticides" under letter P - Filters
- Air filters / purifiers
- Water filters / purifiers
- * Fire Safety
- * Fisteria (actually, Pfiesteria ) a parasite in seafood
- * Floods:
- Fluorescent Lights
- * Foam building insulation
- * Food additives
- * Food issues
- Organic - What are the standards for organic foods? from www.pickyourown.org
- Sources for safer food - resources
- Food Irradiation
- Food Poisoning
- * Food Safety
- * Consumer advice , Q&A and Where to report problems about food safety
- * General tips for food safety in the kitchen
- * Tips for retail businesses
- * Reporting Food Poisoning
- * Free publications
- Kids
- * FAQs - Frequently asked food safety questions
- * Food borne diseases
- * Food and FDA News
- * Food safety alerts
- * Food safety travel alerts and tips
- * Government agencies for food safety - state and federal
- * Search the FDA website
- * Food inspection (government)
- * U.S. Food Code
- Specific food issues
- Beef
- * This one is just amazing: Cattle are being fed chicken manure - legally!
- * Mad Cow Disease
- * Hot dogs & Listeriosis
- Poultry
- * Turkey - bacteria in them
- * Turkey tips - safe cooking, thawing, storing
- * Does eating turkey make you sleepy? (tryptophan)
- Vegetables
- Beef
- * Food safety information for kids - lots for children here!
- * Other related topics
- * Forests
- * Formaldehyde - and indoor air quality, your health
- Forms:
- * Freon - exposure to, and your health
- * Frequently asked questions (FAQs) about the EPA, Environmental issues and EHSO
- Fruits - where to find a "pick your own" farm - www.pickyourown.org
- * Frog (deformities)
- Fuel economy guides for automobiles sold in the U.S. and further information
- Funeral Homes and environmental compliance
- * Fungus (fatal in infants)
- * Garden environmental tips and precautions
- * Gasoline - MTBE additive health hazards
- Generators of Haz Waste
- * Georgia - State of GA forms that you may need (such as ordering a birth certificate)
- Georgia, State of - DNR, EPD , environmental and regulatory information, forms, etc
- *
Global Warming - All About It!
- * Emissions data
- * Climate, man and global warming, explained
- * Trends
- *Impacts on Health or Wildlife and Water Resources
- * Free Publications
- * Links
- * EPA pages on global warming
- * Global warming news from LawPublish
- * Greenhouse Gases and CO2 (Is it Worth a Dam?)
- Government search engines
*
- find ANY government regulation in the CFR (Code of Federal Regulations) here!
- Contact lists - look by agency name (EPA, DOT, OSHA)
- Hotlines
- Links to Government web sites
- Government environmental web sites
- Great Britain - Environmental
- Groundwater Contamination
- * Groundwater quality issues, overview, facts and FAQs
- * Halogen
- * Hamburgers - and e. coli, cooking safety
- * Hanta Virus - the deadly disease carried in rodent droppings
- * Hazardous Chemicals (Top 20 - courtesy of ATSDR)
- HazMat - Hazardous Materials
- MSDS searches, chemical compound
information, etc. including used oil. Also see "Emergency response", above- Free guides and publications
- Hazardous Materials Safety (HAZMAT)-Emergency Response Guidelines
Acute Exposure Guideline Levels (AEGLs)
EPA web site describes dangers from exposure to airborne chemicals and recommends guideline levels for short-term exposures to airborne hazardous substances.
- * Hazardous waste - General information - - what is it - from solid waste to hazardous chemicals - all here
- Hazardous Waste - RCRA
- Detailed
information and regulations
- FAQs - Frequently Asked Questions
- General
- Monthly RCRA/Superfund/EPCRA Hotline Reports - Q&A, Facts, Statistics, new publications
- Identification of haz waste
- Generators of Haz Waste
- Small quantity generators
- Large quantity generators
- Required notifications
- Guide to manifesting and shipping hazardous wastes (including the manifest forms and regs)
- Guide to the generator's self-inspection checklist
- Generator's self-inspection checklist
- RCRA, Superfund, and EPCRA Hotline Training Module: Introduction to Generators
- TSDFs (Treatment, Storage and/or Disposal Facilities)
- Land Ban requirements (Part 268, land disposal)
- The Universal Waste Rule fact sheet
- HWIR - Hazardous Waste Identification Rule
- * Health Information - More links and resources here than you can imagine!
- Health & Safety
(main page)
- Overview of OSHA requirements
- Contact information:
- Contact information for regional OSHA offices
- Contact information to State OSHA offices
- OSHA, Federal & State Health Department Links
contacts, links, etc. (quite a lot here)
- OSHA Fact Sheets - free to download here
- OSHA publications
- OSHA News & FR notices
- Back to 1985.
Search & Download any notice - PPE (personal protective equipment) Guide
- Respiratory Protection Standard (current reg )
- Asbestos
- Fire Safety
- Home environmental health & safety survey!
- * Hot dogs, luncheon meats and Listeriosis
- Hotlines: Free Telephone Hotlines:
- House and Home
- * Asbestos shingles on your house
- * Battery disposal for households, homes and individuals
- * Reducing household electronic waste
- * Recycling Household electronics - where to go
- * More about how and where to recycle household electronics (computers, tv's etc.)
- * Home Fire Safety Checklist - Is your home safe? Check it out!
- * Free publications about recycling at home
- * Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about recycling at home
- * General tips and guidance
- * Garden environmental tips and precautions
- * Household waste and recycling at home
- * Household hazardous waste - types and disposal methods
- * How and where to recycle household electronics (computers, tv's etc.)
- * Household Products
- *
Indoor Air Pollution
- * Introduction to IAQ (Indoor Air Quality)
- * An indoor air quality study
- * Effects of Indoor Air Pollution on Children
- * Sick building syndrome - indoor air quality and your health
- * Free Indoor Air Quality Publications from the EPA and Other Agencies
- * Even More Free Indoor Air Quality Publications from the EPA and Other Agencies
- * Free Indoor Air Quality Telephone Hotlines and Resources
- Industrial hygiene:
- Industry-specific Guidance - from Air transportation to Wood furniture
- * Infectious diseases
- Insulation (house, building)
- International Environmental and Safety Affairs * - Everything from the Basel Convention to Whaling is here - and there are resources and links for continents to countries from Africa to Ukraine. We're adding more information from each region and country every week.
- Irradiated food
- ISO14001 - Environmental Management Systems overview, downloads, manuals and links
- Jobs for Environmental and safety professionals
- Resources for job and information networking for environmental health and safety professionalsand information
- Looking for jobs in the environmental sector? Check these environmental jobs web sites.
- Want to work for the US EPA? Check EPA job openings here
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- Journals:
- Kids Pages
- Lab Packs - Information about packing and removing small (less than 10 gallons each) containers of hazardous chemicals, cleaners, paints, etc. for disposal.
- Lab Wastes at Educational Institutions
- * Landfill (contamination)
- * Laws: environmental regulations and laws
- * Lead Poisoning in the home and community
- * Legionnaire's Disease
- Links to the Federal Government
- Links to related
(and unrelated, but useful) sites. Eg., environmental organizations, weather, affiliates, etc.
- * Listeria -Hot dogs, luncheon meats and Listeriosis
- * Lyme Disease
- * Mad Cow Disease
- * Magazines: THE comprehensive list of Environmental Magazines and Journals
- * Man-Made Mineral Fibers and health effects - in insulation
- * Maps - Environmental Maps and topographical mapping for the United States, EPA regions and individual states
- Material Safety Data Sheets - see MSDS below
- * Medical Assistance on Environmental Disease
- Mercury recyclers
- * Mercury spills and mercury poisoning
- Mesothelioma: Facts and Resources - symptoms, treatment, etc.
- Miscellaneous
- Mixed Waste Overview (this is wastes which are both hazardous/chemical AND radioactive)
- Molds
- Municipal waste (trash, solid waste)
- * Mothballs
- MSDS:
The most complete MSDS list on the internet - An exhaustive A to Z list of chemical manufacturers and direct links to their Material Safety Data Sheet sites for information about the chemicals in commercial products
. If you have a slow connection, try one of these (letter corresponds to the first letter of the manufacturer's name) links instead: A to D
E to I
J to P
Q to Z
- * MSDS Chemical information (composition, properties, health and envi data) from OSHA databases
- MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) searches and other chemical information
- How to Write an MSDS for Your Company's Product
- * MTBE (gas compound)
- NEPA - National Environmental Policy Act
- News Plus
(the latest environmental, safety, and gov't news services, subscriptions, etc.)
- Daily Environmental News, weather and general news from the wire services
- Newsletters & email subscriptions
- EPA News
- Daily Environmental News Stories
- About.com's environmental news
- Federal Register Notices & News
- *
Nuclear wastes
- Nuclear wastes and materials - also see radioactive , below
- * State nuclear regulatory agencies links
- * Office: Health & Safety at work
- * Oil: Used Oil management information, regulations, etc.
- Organic - What are the standards for organic foods? from www.pickyourown.org
- OSHA - Main Safety and Health Page
- See Health & Safety (above), Safety (below), PPE below, or Process Safety (below)
- * Overview of OSHA requirements
- OSHA compliance areas, by topic
- Documents, Forms, Publications:
- OSHA Forms - download them here, free <----------------------------------------OSHA Forms <-------------
- Most commonly requested documents and publications
- Sample OSHA safety plans - free to download and use
- OSHA Recordkeeping information (also see forms ) * OSHA publications
- Regulations
- OSHA top 10 violations cited in 2004
- Compliance Guidance and Interpretation
- OSHA Guidance - all free
- OSHA self-inspection checklist - prepare yourself with this!
- OSHA asbestos self-inspection list
- * OSHA compliance interpretations
- OSHA Memorandums of Understanding
- Search OSHA Interpretation memos
- OSHA Technical Guidance Manual
- OSHA Technical Links - Don't miss these alphabetized resource links!
- Specific OSHA Programs
- Small business information
- Contact information:
- Employee / Worker rights (under OSHA)
- OSHA Resources
- * Ozone Depletion and the hole in the ozone layer
- * Ozone generators that are sold as air cleaners - An Assessment of Effectiveness and Health Consequences
- * Paint Odor
- * PCBs - Overview Page
- PCB FAQs and Spills
- Free PCB Publications
- List of PCB disposal facilities
- List of PCB storage facilities
- * PCB Megarule
- * PCB Disposal
- * Federal Register Notices (downloads)
- * Perc (perchloroethylene)
- * Hydrogen Peroxide mouth wash
- Perchlorate - dangers in drinking water supplies
- Pesticide information for Consumers
- Pesticide Information for Environmental and Safety Managers
- *
Pets - and your health - take care of both
- * Fleas
- * Taking Care of your Pet During Flea and Tick Season - Taking care of your pets responsibly includes protecting them from fleas and ticks. Before purchasing and applying pesticide products to pets to control fleas and ticks, there is important information you should know.
- * How to spot counterfeit pet flea and tick products
- * Cats, pregnant women and toxoplasmosis
- * Pfiesteria a parasite in seafood
- Phase I Assessments and other compliance assessments - including some great guides to download
- Photos, clip art and graphics (all free)
- Clip Art - Free Graphics for safety training ***
- Pollution Prevention
- including online tools
to search for alternatives - * Pollution
- * Pollutors - How to report environmental violations and polluters
- Power lines and cancer - see "EMF"
- PPE - Personal Protection Equipment
- Pregnancy and Environmental Factors
- Product Safety
- Process Safety Management (PSM)
- * Product safety information
- Publications:
- EPA & OSWER publications (free download here)
- OSHA Publications (free to download here)
- * Free fact sheets, publications, brochures from the EPA
- * THE comprehensive list of Environmental Magazines and Journals
- * Radioactive wastes
- Radioactive wastes
- Nuclear waste overview
- Types of radiation
- All About Nuclear Waste Disposal
- Low-level radioactive wastes
- Man-made radiation
- Uranium mining - Uranium mill tailings
- Nuclear waste from weapons production
- Naturally-occurring radioactive waste
- Nuclear emergencies
- Nuclear / radioactive guidance documents
- Government agencies
- How to assess the danger from radiation
- Links to many federal government, scientific and reputable sources of information about radiactive materials
- State nuclear regulatory agencies links
- Mixed Waste Overview (this is wastes which are both hazardous/chemical AND radioactive)
- * Radon and your health
- RCRA - All About the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act - the hazardous waste law.
- RCRA Superfund Hotline reports - Loads of questions and answers to hazardous waste issues
- Research:
- Recycling of Wastes
- * Recycling at home (also see House and home )
- * Free publications about recycling at home
- * Reducing household electronic waste
- * Recycling Household electronics - where to go
- * More about how and where to recycle household electronics (computers, tv's etc.)
- * Recycling facts
- Batteries
- Fluorescent Lights
- Mercury Wastes
- Prices of recycled materials
- Add your company to the list of recyclers
- Industrial Waste and Material Exchanges
- Regulations
- Safety / OSHA Regulations
- Transportation (DOT) Regulations , other DOT Information
- Regulations - environmental regs and laws
- EPA environmental regulations - Title 40 of CFR - master list. This is a huge page - separate sections below:
- SUBCHAPTER A-- GENERAL
- SUBCHAPTER B-- GRANTS AND FEDERAL ASSISTANCE
- SUBCHAPTER C-- AIR PROGRAMS
- SUBCHAPTER D-- WATER PROGRAMS
- SUBCHAPTER E-- PESTICIDE PROGRAMS
- SUBCHAPTER F-- RADIATION PROTECTION
- SUBCHAPTER G-- NOISE ABATEMENT
- SUBCHAPTER H-- OCEAN DUMPING
- SUBCHAPTER I -- SOLID AND HAZARDOUS WASTES
- SUBCHAPTER J-- SUPERFUND, EMERGENCY PLANNING, AND COMMUNITY RIGHT-TO-KNOW PROGRAMS
- SUBCHAPTER N-- EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND STANDARDS
- SUBCHAPTER O-- SEWAGE SLUDGE
- SUBCHAPTER Q-- ENERGY POLICY
- SUBCHAPTER R--TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL ACT
- SUBCHAPTER U--AIR POLLUTION
- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE; UNIFORM NATIONAL DISCHARGE STANDARDS FOR VESSELS OF THE ARMED FORCES - 1700 --UNIFORM NATIONAL DISCHARGE STANDARDS FOR VESSELS
- EPA environmental regulations - Title 40 of CFR - master list. This is a huge page - separate sections below:
- Respiratory Protection Pages * - OSHA Regulatory Standard - Intro page
- Overview
- The regulation - 29 CFR 1910.134
- OSHA 1910.134 interpretation memos
- How to select a respirator
- OSHA directive on inspecting respirators
- Training materials
- Free publications and manuals
- Notices and materials in both English and Spanish
- Glossary
- FAQs
- * Ricin and biotoxins
- Right-to-Know (RTK) - also known as, worker right to know, employee hazard communication programs
- Risk Management Plans (RMP)
- Safety Information (also see Health & safety ; and OSHA )
- Sample Plans and checklists
- OSHA
- EPA / RCRA
- DOT
- * Sewage and Sludge (Biosolids)
- Search Engines
- 1. Search this site - your best option, as it includes links to government sites.
- 2. Search government sites , also has capabilities to search the Federal regulations and Federal Register
- 3. Search the Internet
- 4. Search for a book, article, or video at Amazon
- * Sick building syndrome - indoor air quality and your health
- Small business information and resources
- Smog, Ozone and Air Pollution
- * Smoking & Secondhand Smoking facts, policies, regulations
- * Soil Contamination
- Solid waste - also called municipal waste, trash, rubbish, nonhazardous waste:
- * Spills & Emergency Response - everything you need to know
- * State environmental and general government contacts
, links, address, & numbers for all 50 states; a comprehensive list just updated 2/99!
Other contacts: - * Sun - ultraviolet radiation and your health
- * Superfund - All about hazardous waste sites
- * Superfund FAQs
- * Site Information - find out about a site near you!
- * Superfund publications
- Also see CERCLA above
- Sustainable Development
- * Tattoos
- * Tension Wire - Electric (EMF)
- Tetanus and rust nails
- Terrorism:
- Test Methods - EPA test methods sorted by chemical/name, and for General, Air, Pesticides and Toxic Substances, Solid Waste, Water
- * Tetrachloroethylene
- * Tornados
- Toxic Reporting Inventory (TRI
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- Overview
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- Free Software - The latest, just-released guidance software
- Guidance documents , including the chemical lists
- Links to government & other EPCRA sites
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Also see "PCBs" and "Asbestos"- Premanufacture Notices (PMN) guidance, forms, etc.
- TSCA regulations and laws
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*(required DOT, OSHA, RCRA training)
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- * Ultraviolet radiation and your health
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Water: Bottled water or Tap water? Which is safer?
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- also see the pages above on drinking water
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