Useful WEB Resources

A selective list of environmental resource links. The links are grouped by the following categories:

• Search Tools
• Government Agencies
• Congress
• Federal Regulations
• Judicial Decisions
• Environmental Legal Resources
• Environmental Organizations and Environmental Sites
• Pollution Databases
• Chemistry and Other Science Links
• GIS and Maps
• News
• Other Lists of WEB Resources

Search Tools (cribbed mostly from NRDC's WEB page)

• AltaVista - Provides access to the largest web index: over 30 million pages found on hundreds of thousands of servers and millions of articles from Usenet news groups. [http://www.altavista.digital.com/]
• BigBook - Searchable electronic yellow pages. Has useful mapping tool. [http://www.bigbook.com/]
• The Contact Center Network - Directory of organizations and publications categorized by geographic region and by topic.[http://www.contact.org]
• EINet Galaxy - Index of services and information from the Trade Wave Corporation, a proponent of electronic commerce. [http://www.einet.net/galaxy.html]
• Excite Netsearch - A search engine that allows "concept searches" as well as word searches. [http://http:/ /www.excite.com]
• Liszt, Tile .Net, and Nova will help you find Internet mailing lists
• Lycos - Another giant. [http://lycos.c s.cmu.edu/]
• Magellan Internet Guide - Tired of all the dross? Just looking for the gold? Then limit your search to those that Magellan's self-described picky editorial board has reviewed and rated. [http://magellan.mckinley.com]
• The OpenText Index - Another powerful search engine. [http://search.opentext.com/]
• New Riders' WWW Yellow Pages [http://www.mcp.com/4561609296113/newriders/]
• Yahoo - One of the original search tools. [http://www.yahoo.com/]

• Federal Government Agencies, "a clean, easy-to-use listing" says the New York Times.
• Office of Management and Budget
• White House
• Forest Service
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• Environmental Information Services (EIS)
• National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Information Network (USACE INET)
• Department of Energy
• Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network
• Energy Information Administration
• Environment, Safety and Health
• Environmental Management
• Fossil Energy
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Design for Environment (DfE)
• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
• Department of the Interior
• Bureau of Land Management
• Bureau of Reclamation
• National Biological Service
• National Park Service
• Office of Surface Mining
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
• National Wetlands Inventory
• U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
• DOJ--Environment and Natural Resources Division
• Department of Transportation
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• GCDIS Homepage - Climate Change Data Repository
• Federal Election Commission (FEC)

U.S. House Of Representatives - Home Page

THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet - Library of Congress; handy Congresional Record by date and section.

Government Printing Office Access - Bills; public laws; Congressional Record; Committee Reports; Federal Register Available in text and (with Adobe Acrobat reader) in PDF printed format versions.

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) - Searchable electronic version of CFR.

Government Printing Office Access - Bills; public laws; Congressional Record; Committee Reports; Federal Register

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Judicial Decisions

House Law Library Judicial Links - Supreme Court, US Circuit Court, some District Court Decisions.

Federal Judicial Center - Opinions; Sup Ct Rules; Rules of Evidence; links to other government sites

Environmental Legal Resources

• Pace Virtual Environmental Law Library - Decisions; statutes; key regulations.
• The Practicing Attorney's Home Page -- A number of good resources.
  

Environmental Organizations and Environmental Sites

• Natural Resources Defense Council - NRDC's home page
• Environmental Organization Web Directory - Mixed quality resource. Both commercial and nonprofits.
• EnviroLink - Alphabetical listing
• Environmental Ethics
• Australian Environmental Resources Information Network
• Information Center for the Environment (ICE), University of California, Davis (UCD)
  

• RTKNet -- The best source for pollution data. You need an account to get at all of the data, but accounts are free.
• EPA's Web Site:
• Air Links -- Miscellaneous links to EPA program files and some real-time pollution monitoiring data.
• AIRS - Aerometric Information Retrieval System -- Air pollution data, just a description. AIRS Executive is a subset of AIRS data that you can download, however.
• Emergency Response Notification System (ERNS) -- Accident data. Not very reliable.
• Envirofacts - EPA's Data Warehouse -- Links to EPA's databases.
• Superfund Site Database-- Site scheduling and status information. See also the ATSDR HazMat database.
• Permit Compliance System (PCS) -- Clean Water Act permit data.
• Resource Conservation and Recovery Information System (RCRIS) -- RCRA facility data.
• Toxic Release Inventory System (TRIS) -- Basic TRI searching.
• Environmental Indicators Home Page -- Some regionally organized data.
• Geospatial Data Clearinghouse -- Data for mapping applications.
• Hazardous Waste Data -- Hazardous waste generation and treatment data.
• Municipal Solid Waste Factbook
• National GIS Program -- Data for mapping applications.
• Enviro$en$e -- Very good pollution prevention data.
• Great Lakes Regional Information System
• Great Lakes Information Network
• OTAG File Sites (Ozone Transport Assessment Group Web Resources):
• OTAG Home Page
• Emission Inventories (gopher site)
• OTAG Air Quality Analysis Workgroup Page
• MCNC's OTAG Data Clearinghouse -- Graphic and tabular files of atmospheric modeling runs for the OTAG region

• The Practicing Attorney's Home Page Database Directory -- A good overview of several valuable sites.
• ChemFinder Searching -- The best place to start when looking for information about the properties of a specific chemical. This site looks your chemical up at a couple of dozen other sites and provides you with the links to the entries you are looking for.
• ExToxNet -- The Extension Toxicology Network provides toxicology articles, as opposed to just database entries. Searchable by subject as well as chemical.
• NESE Data Bank -- Census and other data: The National Economic, Social, and Environmental Data Bank (NESE DB) is a collection of the most recent and comprehensive information on important issues in the United States. This data bank comprises over 65,000 documents, spreadsheets, diagrams, tables and time series.
• NTP Searching -- National Toxicology Program database.
• Environmental Science & Technology
• NIST Chemistry WebBook
• US FDA/CFSAN Chemistry Information
• US FDA / Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN)
• Environmental Health Clearinghouse Home Page -- Mixed bag. Operated by NIEHS.
• Materials Safety Data Sheets -- Standard hazard info. about chemicals.
• Enviro$en$e -- Good industry and technology profiles.

• CGRER NetSurfing: Maps and References -- amazingly comprehensive set of links to map resources; separate lists for GIS and Weather
• National Mapping Information
• Great Lakes Map Server Home Page
• On-line Resources For Earth Scientists
• Geographic Information Systems - GIS
• DeLorme Mapping MapGate(TM) Map Related Web Sites
• GISnet BBS WWW Home Page
  

• CNN Interactive and CNNfn
• Hot Wired and The Netizen
• boston.com, from The Boston Globe
• San Jose Mercury News
• The New York Times
• The Wall Street Journal
• The Washington Post
• Philadelphia Inquirer
• Los Angeles Times
• USA Today
• Time Warner's Pathfinder and Netly News
• Nando Net from the Raleigh News & Observer
• U.S. News
• The Atlantic
• The Gate, from the San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle
• The Times of London
• The Electronic Telegraph
• iguide, from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
• MSNBC, from Microsoft and NBC News
• Law Journal Extra!, National Law Journal and New York Law Journal
• Guides to Many Publications
• Newslink, a guide to newspapers, magazines and broadcast organizations
• Ecola's 24 hour newsstand, quick and easy access to web sites of more than 900 publications
• Campus newspapers on the Internet
• Newspapers Online: Steve Outing's list. (Read his Stop the Presses column, too.)
• The Electronic Newsstand
• Project Gutenberg
  

• EnvJournalism Home Page: Subject Links - Society of Environmental Journalists Web Resource List
• All Environmental Web Resources
• List of WWW Sites of Interest to Ecologists
• Communications for a Sustainable Future (CSF) operates many mailing lists related to the topics of sustainability, the environment, and related social issues.
• Index Librorum Liberorum: Contents of http://www.fourmilab.ch/