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Full Table of Contents, Subjects on EHSO - Environment, Health and Safety

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)
- * Effects of Acid Rain
Acronyms for environmental health and safety issues
Acronyms, terms and links to for Superfund, CERCLA and related agencies
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
  - * The Clean Air Act in Plain English (EPA publication)
- * 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)
* Air - Indoor air quality
- * Ozone generators - as air purifiers /filters
- * HEPA filters - what are they , how to select one
- * Sick building syndrome
- * Alphabetized list of free guides and resources about indoor air quality issues
- * 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
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 allergen glossary If you can name the allergy, pollen or allergen, it, it is listed here
* Alzheimer's Disease and aluminum
Analytical
- US EPA test methods index
Animal Waste - issues, resources, links
* Anthrax
- * FAQs
- * How to recognize suspicious packages
- * Anthrax and children
- * Protective equipment and respirators
* Ants in the home and yard - and pesticides
* Arsenic in foods - warnings about apple juice and rice
* 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
- * Asbestos-related diseases:: Overview of Mesothelioma and Asbestos
  - * Mesothelioma: Facts and Resources - symptoms, treatment, etc.
  - * Looking for a Mesothelioma lawyer?
- * Asbestos regulations
- * FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
- * Asbestos resource links
Asbestos Main Page, for EHS professionals
- Quick summary of asbestos in the workplace - overview and requirements
- Asbestos Federal Register notices
- T he 1970's and 1980's asbestos usage bans
- Asbestos training materials
- Laboratories Accredited to Analyze Samples for Asbestos
- * Asbestos publications
- Asbestos OSHA self-inspection list for companies (NOT for homes!)
- Respiratory protection programs
* 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
- * Asthma overview
- * Asthma Question and Answer
- * ASTHMA and its Environmental Triggers
- * Asthma Resources and Research
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 service stations and repair shops
- Automotive compliance guides and publications (free)
- Environmental compliance information for the auto recyclers and junk yards
- Safety issues in an auto shop: " Managing Worker Health and Safety: An Auto Refinish Shop Success Story"

* Bacteria - disease
- * Everything you'd ever want to know about bacteria
Battery recycling and disposal
Bedbugs - everything you need to know about these blood-sucking pests, and why you should take precautions now.
Beef
- * Mad Cow Disease
- * Beef from cattle that are fed chicken manure
Benzene in soft drinks - results from an FDA study.
* 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 drinking water
- * Bottled water or Tap water? Which is safer?
- * How to choose a bottled drinking water - a guide for your taste and safety
* 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)
- * Cancer (the cancer gene)
- * Cancer (relationship of cadmium to prostate cancer)
- * List of cancer-causing compounds (carcinogens)
* Candles - burning candles affects indoor air quality
* Carcinogens - list of cancer-causing compounds - also see cancer above
* Carpet Allergy
Cell phones, Cancer and Brain Tumors
- How do cell phones work
- Cell phone SARs (Specific absorption rates)
- How and Where to Recycle Your Old Cell Phone, Smart Phone, PDA and other Mobile Household Electronics
* Cellular Communications Towers and Cancer
CERCLA - Superfund
- Brownfields
- Contamination at industrial properties
- Superfund site information
- Community Right-to-Know - (EPCRA)
Chemical Information - MSDS and data direct from chemical manufacturers - a super guide to manufacturer's MSDS sites.
- Formaldehyde
- * Chemical information (composition, properties, health and envi data) from OSHA
- * Chemical pollution fact sheets on many chemicals
- Chemical storage guidelines - complete guidelines to use in your school, lab or facility
* 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
Climate Change (also see Global Warming)
Clip art, photos and graphics (all free)
- Clip Art - Free Graphics for safety training ***
- Clip art and photos of environment and nature (NEW)
Compact Fluorescent Lights - CFL's - How they work, advantages and disadvantages, mercury and health risks, cleanup and recycling
Computers - household electronic waste
- * Reducing household electronic waste
- * Recycling Household electronics - where to go
- * More about how and where to recycle household electronics (computers, tv's etc.)
Contact lens safety: FDA's Investigation of Serious Eye Infections Associated With Soft Contact Lens Use and Contact Lens (April 10, 2006)
Contingency planning and emergency response, also see Emergency response, below
* Cosmetics and your health
* Consumer Health Information
- * Environmental disease clinics
* Consumer protection
- Internet scams and frauds
- Identity theft
- Report a scam
* Consumer product safety information
- * Consumer Product Labeling initiative - What does the label mean?
- * Paint - epoxy, urea-formaldehyde, paint fumes, etc.
* Cockroaches and allergies
Cookware: What types of pots and pans are safest to cook in?
* Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)
* Crimes - polluters
* Cryptosporidiosis (in drinking water)

* Dams - are they worth the costs?
DfE - Designing for the environmentDfE
Publications - The DfE Publications page links to info on publications for each program area of DfE, to online documents, and to order info for available hard copies.
DOL - Dept of Labor-Required Posters - download them here, free
* Diet drinks, Aspartame (NutraSweet) and your health
Disease
* Disasters
- * Floods:
  - * What to do
- * Earthquakes
  - * Historic quakes
  - * Risk map
- * Tornados
  - * safe rooms
- * Disaster scales: Richter, etc.
Disease
- Environmental causes of disease (both man-made and natural)
- * 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
- * How to choose a bottled drinking water - a guide for your taste and safety
- Is your tap water safe?
- Descriptions of the contaminants that are most commonly found in drinking water (both bottled and tap waters).
- Fact sheets
  - * about drinking water safety
  - * about contaminants in drinking water
- * Tips to make your water at home safer and cleaner
- * Check out the quality of YOUR local tap water!
- Certified labs that test drinking water
- * National Drinking water standards (list of specific contaminants and levels)
- Overview of Regulations and standards
- State bottled drinking water regulations
- Training materials- Want to obtain your own Drinking Water operator's license to get a job in the industry? Here are free downloadable training materials.
- * Certified labs that test drinking water
Dry cleaning
* Dust mites - those microscopic bugs that live in your bed, eating your skin and hair!

Earth Day - April 22nd, every year! Click for more information!
* Earthquakes
- * Historic quakes
- * Risk map
Eclipse - Solar Eclipses - safe viewing information, safety glasses
The economics of environmental issues
Educational Resources
- Free Classroom materials for both teachers and students
- 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
- * EMF FAQs
* Employee rights under OSHA
Employment rights and rules: see "worker rights"
Emergency Response & Spills
- Oil Spills
- Emergency Response Resources for Terrorism - Chemical Agents
- Hazardous material & Chemical Spills
- 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 FREE 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

Enforcement of environmental regulations and laws, how to report a potential violation, lists of violators and guidance documents
- 2009 Pollutors and environmental criminals - actual summaries of convicted companies and individuals
- 2008 polluter cases
- 2007 polluter cases
- 2006 polluter cases
- 2005 polluter cases
- 2004 polluter cases
- 2003 polluter cases
- 2002 polluter cases (Note: EPA's online files stop at 2003)
- 2001 - The EPA didn't save them!
- 2000 polluter cases
- 1999 polluter cases
- Search your area for environmental crimes
- Enforcement publications
Enforcement of Food and Product Safety laws and regulations
- FDA enforcement cases
- Recent Recalls, Market Withdrawals and Safety Alerts
Environmental causes of disease (both man-made and natural)
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
- * EPA Employee locator: Locate the email, phone and mailing address of any employee of the U.S. EPA
- * EPA accomplishments (self-proclaimed)
- * 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
Exercise and Fitness: The Fitness and Health Science.org website provides loads of free information, based on years of research at major universities, and the experience of the university trainers, the information and fitness guides are easy to understand, easy to get in shape - just follow the free guide, completely illustrated and free workout routine and record sheet
Exit requirements in the workplace - see the regs and guidance here!
1910.36 - Design and construction requirements for exit routes.
See an interpretation letter here
See full

Family Health Issues
- * Senior citizens health issues
- Kids - see * children, above
Farmers
- * Pollution and chemical/pesticide safety for farmers
FDA: Food and Drug Administration
- Alphabetical list of the best and most popular FDA web pages
- Recent Recalls, Market Withdrawals and Safety Alerts
- Benzene in soft drinks - results from an FDA study.
- All useful and popular FDA topics:
- Search the FDA website
Federal Government
- * Links to U.S. federal government agencies, White House, Congress, etc.
- Comprehensive links to the EPA
- * Searches of the federal government sites
- * Searches of the federal government statistics sites
- * Environmentally-related federal government web sites
* Federal Regulations - environmental regs and laws
Federal Register Notices & News -all
- EPA Federal Register Notices
- DOT News & FR notices
- OSHA News & FR notices
FIFRA - Federal Insecticide, Fungicide,
& Rodenticide Act - also see "Pesticides" under letter P
- Compliance assistance
- FIFRA - EPA contact information
Filters
- Air filters / purifiers
- Water filters / purifiers
  - * Tips to make your water at home safer and cleaner
*Fire Safety
- * Home Fire Safety Checklist - Is your home safe? Check it out!
- * Fire safety links - to the best sites
- State Fire Marshals contact list for all 50 states
- * Local fire departments
- Preparing for a Fire Inspection
- * Selecting a fire extinguisher
- * Understanding the types of fire extinguishers
* Fisteria (actually, Pfiesteria) a parasite in seafood
Fitness and exercise: The Fitness and Health Science.org website provides loads of free information, based on years of research at major universities, and the experience of the university trainers, the information and fitness guides are easy to understand, easy to get in shape - just follow the free guide, completely illustrated and free workout routine and record sheet
Grounding requirements (OSHA / NFPA 30) for flammable liquids
* Floods:
- * What to do
- * Cleanup the indoor air
Fluorescent light flicker, and related health issues, such as headaches,
Fluorescent Light disposal
- Fluorescent lamp recyclers list
* Foam building insulation
* Food additives - what are they, which are dangerous, etc. also see Food Supplements
Food Chain issues - and man's interdependence with nature
- Honey Bee Colony Collapse Disorder
* Food issues
- Organic - What are the standards for organic foods? from www.pickyourown.org
- Sources for safer food - resources
  - Picking your own
  - Growing your own
Food Irradiation
- * Food irradiation links
Food Poisoning
- * Hot dogs, luncheon meats and Listeriosis
- * Is your turkey safe?
- * Turkey tips - safe cooking, thawing, storing
* 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
  - * Food safety page for kids, teens and educators
  - * Information to help students write reports about food safety issues
- * 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
    - * E. Coli in vegetables
- * Food safety information for kids - lots for children here!
- * Other related topics
Food Supplements
* Forests
- * Protecting streams and rivers in forestry operations
* Formaldehyde - and indoor air quality, your health
Forms:
- How to Create an MSDS for Your Company's Product
- OSHA Forms - download them here, free
- OSHA-Required Posters - download them here, free
* 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
- * Gasoline health & environmental issues
- * Gasoline data sheet (MSDS) composition
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
- Georgia Environmental Press Releases
- Enforcement Actions
- Regulations
- Technical guidance
- Forms
- Permit information
- Sewage and Septic requirements
- Definitions
* 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
- Government environmental web sites, listed alphabetically
- All U.S. government environmental websites sorted alphabetically by topic or subject area
- All EPA Topics and major EPA web pages, sorted alphabetically
- Alphabetized links to EPA offices, programs, and subject areas
- Links to all Government web sites (not just environmental web sites)
Great Britain - Environmental
- Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions
- Health and safety resources, and the HSE
Grounding requirements (OSHA / NFPA 30) for flammable liquids
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
- * Hantavirus FAQs
- * How to determine if you have a rodent infestation
* 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
- See this page for the complete list of EPA hazardous waste topic pages
- FAQs - Frequently Asked Questions
- General
  - Monthly RCRA/Superfund/EPCRA Hotline Reports - Q&A, Facts, Statistics, new publications
- Identification of haz waste (how to determine whether you have a hazardous waste, under EPA regulations)
- Generators of Haz Waste
- TSDFs (Treatment, Storage and/or Disposal Facilities, including landfills)
- Land Ban requirements (Part 268, land disposal)
- The Universal Waste Rule fact sheet
- HWIR - Hazardous Waste Identification Rule Just published - Nov 30, 1998!!!
* 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
  - State Fire Marshals contact list for all 50 states
Home environmental health & safety survey!
* Hot dogs, bacon, luncheon meats and cancer risks
* Hot dogs, luncheon meats and Listeriosis
Hotlines: Free Telephone Hotlines:
- * Environmental: Government and Free Private Hotlines
- * Health and disease: Government hotlines
House and Home
* Household Products
- How to find what toxic substances are in common household products
- Cancer risk of using commercial household products

* Indoor Air Pollution
Industrial hygiene:
- Favorite safety websites for safety and industrial hygiene professionals
Industry-specific Guidance - from Air transportation to Wood furniture
* Infectious diseases
*Insect repellents - Deet: effectiveness, safety for use against mosquitoes
Insulation (house, building)
- * Insulation (urea formaldehyde)
- * Insulation (glass wool, fiberglass)
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 professionals and information
- Looking for jobs in the environmental sector? Check these openings and environmental jobs web sites.
- Want to work for the US EPA? Check EPA job openings here.
Journals:
- * Free fact sheets, publications, brochures from the EPA
- * THE comprehensive list of Environmental Magazines and Journals

Kids Pages

Labor rules - see DOL, employment and OSHA
Lab Packs - Information about packing and removing small (less than 10 gallons each) containers of hazardous chemicals, cleaners, paints, etc. for disposal.
Labpack firms - companies that pack and dispose of lab chemicals and other small quantities
Laboratories
* Landfill (contamination)
* Laws: environmental regulations and laws
* Lead Poisoning in the home and community
* Legionnaire's Disease
Links to the Federal Government
- Links to U.S. federal government agencies, White House, Congress, etc.
- Comprehensive links to the EPA
Links to related (and unrelated, but useful) sites. Eg., environmental organizations, weather, affiliates, etc.
* Listeria -Hot dogs, luncheon meats and Listeriosis
* Lyme Disease
- * Lyme Disease (in Dogs)

* 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
- * State of Georgia
Material Safety Data Sheets - see MSDS below
* Medical Assistance on Environmental Disease
Mercury recyclers
* Mercury spills and mercury poisoning
- * Mercury / Methyl Mercury
Mesothelioma: Facts and Resources - symptoms, treatment, etc.
- Looking for a Mesothelioma lawyer?
Miscellaneous
- * SIC code list
Mixed Waste Overview (this is wastes which are both hazardous/chemical AND radioactive)
Molds
- * Molds and sick building syndrome, your health
- * Cleaning up mold from your home
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
- NEPA Resources, guides, FAQs, etc.
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
NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards (NPG)
The NPG is a source of general industrial hygiene information on several hundred chemicals/classes for workers, employers, and occupational health professionals. It presents key information and data in abbreviated or tabular form for chemicals or substance groupings (e.g. cyanides, fluorides, manganese compounds) that are found in the work environment.
You can download a free stand-alone HTML version of the NPG compressed as a ZIP file. The ZIP file contains a condensed version of the NPG. All non-Pocket Guide links were removed so that this set of files acts as a "stand-alone" database. These files can be used with a standard web browser or on some mobile devices.
- NIOSH Pocket Guide - PDF version (6.04 MB)
  NIOSH publication number 2005-149
  (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing and printing)
- NIOSH Pocket Guide - EXE - npg-only.exe (2 MB)
  (Self-extracting zip file for Windows)
- NIOSH Pocket Guide - ZIP - npg-only.zip (2MB)
  (requires WinZip or other unzipping software)
* Nuclear wastes
- Nuclear wastes and materials - also see radioactive, below
- * State nuclear regulatory agencies links