Resources below were very carefully chosen over the many years of teaching. They are the best of the best of what's available on the web, and will serve as a great tool to improve your understanding, grades, and interest in environmental chemistry. Email us at proftk@concisechem.com if you have additional websites that you think should be added to the list.
Visit Chemical/Environmental Information & News Resources for many other outstanding resources.
General Resources
- Visit webpage on Chemical/Environmental Information & News Resources for many outstanding resources
About.com's List of Topics on Chemistry
EPA's Analytical Chemistry
EPA's List of Topics
EPA's Terms of the Environment
EnviroLink Network
Environment Web Directory
EnvironmentalChemistry.com
Environmental Information Sources
National Geographic
WRI's Earth Trends
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Atmosphere
http://www.conservationfund.org/gozero (CO2 calculator)
http://www.epa.gov/Region5/defs/html/caa.htm (Clean Air Act; CAA)
http://ozone.unep.org/Publications/MP_Handbook/index.shtml (Montreal Protocol)
http://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/items/2830.php (Kyoto Protocol)
http://www.epa.gov/air/criteria.html (National Ambient Air Quality Standards; NAAQS)
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange (EPA’s climate change webpage)
http://www.ipcc.ch (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)
http://www.theclimateregistry.org (Climate Registry)
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine (article on carbon labels; Business Week)
www.carbontrust.co.uk (govt. funded company that helps businesses and public sector cut carbon emissions)
http://www.theclimategroup.org (NGO dedicated to advancing business and government leadership on climate change)
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Hydrosphere
- Top News: Water: The Other Scarce Resource (10/2008; C&EN), From Toilet to Tap (Discover; 06/2008)
http://www.epa.gov/region5/water/cwa.htm (Clean Water Act; CWA)
http://www.epa.gov/Region5/defs/html/sdwa.htm (Safe Drinking Water Act; SDWA)
http://www.epa.gov/OGWDW/creg.html (National Primary Drinking Water Standards)
http://www.epa.gov/wqsdatabase/ (Water Quality Standards Database)
http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa (USGS’s National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program)
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/12/17/eco.about.water/ (CNN: Water & Health; 2007)
Map of world's water shortage (Economist)
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Geosphere & Biosphere
http://www.sfiprogram.com (Sustainable Forestry Initiative)
http://www.epa.gov/superfund/health/conmedia/soil/index.htm (EPA’s soil screening guidance)
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Anthrosphere & Materials
http://www.epa.gov/Region5/defs/html/esa.htm (Endangered Species Act; ESA)
http://www.globio.info (Globio maps human impacts)
http://www.enviroliteracy.org/category.php/5.html (Environmental Literacy Council)
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Energy
- For news & resources on nuclear energy, click here.
- Top News: Wind: The Power. The Promise. The Business (Business Week; 07/2008), Biofuels: Is the Cure Worse Than the Disease (OECD; 2007),
Impact of Biofuels on the Right to Food (2007; UN)
Platts: Energy Conferences
FuelEconomy.gov
http://www.ethanolrfa.org/industry/statistics/#E (Renewable Fuels Association)
http://www.alternativeenergy.com (social network devoted to alternative energy)
http://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/publications (McKinsey report: Curbing Global Energy Demand Growth)
http://www.energy.gov/energysources/index.htm (Department of Energy)
http://www.fuelcells.org/ced/career/university.htm (fuel cells)
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Chemicals: Hazard, Fate, and Exposure
http://www.cec.org/naatlas (enables visualization of environmental topics with continental scale)
http://www.epa.gov/multimedia (EPA's web multimedia portal; environmental video, audio/podcasts, and photography)
http://www.ipe.org.cn (air & water pollution maps in China by Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs)
http://www.iceh.org/pdfs/LDDI/LDDIStatement.pdf (Environmental agents associated with neurodevelopmental disorders)
http://www.epa.gov/OSA/ratf.htm (EPA’s Risk Assessment Practices)
http://epa.gov/scipoly/oscpendo (EPA’s Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program)
http://www.iupac.org/reports/1993/6509duffus/a.html (IUPAC glossary of toxicology terms)
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32006D0257:EN:HTML (cosmetics inventory)
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/glossarymain.html (toxicology terms)
http://www.epa.gov/IRIS (IRIS contains EPA's consensus evaluation of the human health effects on chemicals)
http://www.genome.gov/17516715 (biological responses to environmental impacts)
http://www.ourstolenfuture.org (our stolen future)
http://yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/ochpweb.nsf/content/homepage.htm (EPA’s Children Health Protection)
http://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabpeople.nsf/WebCommittees/BOARD (EPA’s Science Advisory Board)
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Chemicals: Risk Management, Policy, and Regulation
Faroes Statement: Human Health Effects of Developmental Exposure to Chemicals in Our Environment (2007; BCPT)
Tragedy of the Commons (1968; Science)
http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaMain (Regulatory Information Service Center; regulatory agendas)
http://thomas.loc.gov (legislative information from the Library of Congress)
http://www.epa.gov/regulations (how EPA writes regulations)
http://www.regulations.gov (federal regulations)
http://epa.gov/region5/answers/foia/index.htm (Freedom of Information Act, FOIA)
http://www.access.gpo.gov/uscode/title15/chapter53_.html (Toxic Substances Control Acts; TSCA)
http://www.epa.gov/compliance/complaints/index.html (EPA’s Compliance & Enforcement)
http://www.epa.gov/docs/epacfr40/chapt-I.info/ (40CFR parts 700-799; TSCA Regulations in the Code of Federal Regulations)
http://www.epa.gov/epahome/lawintro.htm#carrying (EPA’s introduction to laws & regulations)
http://www.epa.gov/epahome/laws.htm (EPA’s major environmental laws)
http://www.epa.gov/Region5/defs/html/epcra.htm (Emergency Planning & Community Response Act; EPCRA)
http://www.epa.gov/Region5/defs/html/fifra.htm (Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act; FIFRA)
http://www.epa.gov/Region5/defs/html/nepa.htm (National Environmental Policy Act)
http://www.epa.gov/Region5/defs/html/osha.htm (Occupational Safety & Health Act; OSHA)
http://www.epa.gov/Region5/defs/html/rcra.htm (Resource Conservation & Recovery Act, RCRA)
http://www.epa.gov/superfund/index.htm (EPA’s Superfund)
http://www.epa.gov/tri (EPA’s Toxics Release Inventory)
http://www.mntap.umn.edu/AtoZ/index.htm (A to Z waste topics)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb (Office of Management & Budget, OMB)
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Waste Management
- Top News: Cash for Trash (08/2008; BW)
EPA's Resource Conservation Challenge
EPA's Waste website
EPA's Hazardous Waste Recycling website
Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Google: Garbage Island
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Green Business & Living
- Visit webpage on Sustainable World for many outstanding resources.
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