Environmental Links

Environmental Indexes, Directories, and Search Engines

EnviroLink: The Online Environmental Community: http://www.envirolink.org/
Environmental Professional's Professional Organizations (John Clay): http://www.clay.net/profass.html
Yahoo's Environment and Nature: http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Environment_and_Nature/

Government Sponsored Environmental Sites (Federal, State, Other)

Federal Government Sites

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry: http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/
Environment, Safety, and Health (U.S. Department of Energy): http://www.eh.doe.gov/
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): http://www.epa.gov/
EPA - Enforcement: http://www.epa.gov/compliance/
EPA - Concerned Citizens Right to Know: http://www.epa.gov/epahome/r2k.htm
EPA - Envirofacts Data Warehouse: http://www.epa.gov/enviro/
EPA - Enviro$en$e: http://es.epa.gov/
EPA - Laws and Regulations (including Federal Register): http://www.epa.gov/epahome/rules.html
EPA - The National Service Center for Environmental Publications: http://www.epa.gov/ncepihom/
EPA - People Locator (to find email addresses of EPA employees): http://cfpub.epa.gov/locator/index.cfm
EPA - Region 6: http://www.epa.gov/earth1r6/
EPA - Superfund Risk Assessment: http://www.epa.gov/oswer/riskassessment/risk_superfund.htm
EPA - Technology Transfer Network: http://www.epa.gov/ttn/emc/
EPA - Terms of Environment: http://www.epa.gov/OCEPAterms/intro.htm
EPA - Waste Minimization: http://www.epa.gov/wastemin/
EPA - Watershed Indicators Index: http://www.epa.gov/iwi/
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA): http://www.fema.gov/
National Environmental Data Index: http://www.nedi.gov/
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): http://www.noaa.gov/
National Weather Service: Austin/San Antonio: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ewx/
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (U.S. Department of Labor - OSHA): http://www.osha.gov/
U.S. Geological Survey: http://www.usgs.gov/

State Government Sites

The Environmental Council of the States (ECOS): http://www.sso.org/ecos/
State of Texas Government Information: http://www.state.tx.us/
State Sites (North Carolina Department EHNR): http://www.enr.state.nc.us/files/usa.htm
California Department of Water Resources: http://www.water.ca.gov/
California Environmental Protection Agency: http://www.calepa.ca.gov/
Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control: http://www.dnrec.state.de.us/
North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources: http://www.enr.state.nc.us/
Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality: http://www.deq.state.ok.us/
South Carolina Department of Natural Resources: http://www.dnr.sc.gov/

Other Government Sites

Scorecard (Environmental Defense): http://www.scorecard.org/
Edwards Aquifer (Gregg A. Eckhardt): http://www.edwardsaquifer.net/
Houston-Galveston Area Council: http://www.h-gac.com/HGAC/home/Default.htm
Lower Colorado River Authority: http://www.lcra.org/
Texas Environmental Center: http://www.tec.org/

Other Environmental Sites

Air & Waste Management Association: http://www.awma.org/
Congressional Research Service Reports: http://www.ncseonline.org/NLE/CRS/
Earth 911 (Chris Warner): http://earth911.org/
Environmental Professional's Homepage (John Clay): http://www.clay.net/
Internet Resources for the Environmental Scientist (David Councill) [1999]: http://www.imt.net/~dcouncil/env.html
Local Government Environmental Assistance Network: http://www.lgean.org/
National Technology Transfer Center: http://www.nttc.edu/
OSHWEB: Occupational Safety and Health Resources: http://www.oshweb.com/
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC): http://www.setac.org/
Source Evaluation Organization (Source Emissions Monitoring): http://www.sesnews.org/
Texas Chemical Council: http://www.txchemcouncil.org/
Water Environment Federation: http://www.wef.org/
World Resources Institute [environmental think tank]: http://www.wri.org/

Environmental News Sites

EcoNet: http://www.igc.org/
Environment News Service: http://www.ens-news.com/
The Great News Network (Ryan Logtenberg): http://www.greatnewsnetwork.org/
Planet Ark (daily Reuters World Environment News): http://www.planetark.org/
Science: The Global Weekly of Research: http://www.sciencemag.org/
Science News Online: The Weekly Newsmagazine of Science: http://www.sciencenews.org/
UniSci: Research News from American Universities: http://unisci.com/

Map-Related Sites

MapQuest: http://www.mapquest.com/
MapsOnUs: http://www.mapsonus.com/
National Atlas of the United States (USGS): http://www-atlas.usgs.gov/
Texas County Highway Maps: http://txdot.lib.utexas.edu/
Texas State Parks: http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/findadest/
U.S. Census Bureau Maps (formerly Tiger Mapping Service): http://www.census.gov/geo/www/maps/

Reference Works Sites

ChemFinder (Chemical Characteristic Search Engine - CambridgeSoft): http://chembiofinderbeta.cambridgesoft.com/
Chemical References Web Pages (EMCI): http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/emci/chemref/
Chemistry Web Book (NIST): http://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/
Environmental Contaminants Encyclopedia (National Parks Service): http://www.nature.nps.gov/hazardssafety/toxic/list.cfm
The EXtension TOXicology NETwork: http://extoxnet.orst.edu/
Hazardous Chemical Database: http://ull.chemistry.uakron.edu/erd/
Hazdat Database (CDR, ATSDR): http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/hazdat.html
A Periodic Table of the Elements (Los Alamos National Laboratory): http://pearl1.lanl.gov/periodic/
Photomicrographs (Buckman Laboratories International): http://www.buckman.com/eng/micro101/micro101.htm
Right to Know Hazardous Substance Fact Sheets: http://www.state.nj.us/health/eoh/rtkweb/rtkhsfs.htm
Standard Industrial Classifications (SIC) Index: http://www.wave.net/upg/immigration/sic_index.html
Standard Industrial Classification Search (OSHA): http://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/sicsearch.html
ToxNet (National Library of Medicine): http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/

Specialized Environmental Sites (Air, Water, Waste)

Air-Focused Sites

Air Pollution Topics (EPA): http://www.epa.gov/ttn/
Air Toxics Website (EPA): http://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/
Code of Federal Regulations: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/
Delaware's Air Quality Management: http://www.dnrec.state.de.us/air/aqm_page/aqm_nets.htm
South Coast Air Quality Management District: Smog Control Agency: Air Monitoring: http://www.aqmd.gov/smog/
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection: Air Monitoring: http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/deputate/airwaste/aq/aqm/principal.htm

Waste-Focused Sites

EPA - Brownfields: http://www.epa.gov/swerosps/bf/
EPA - RCRA Online: http://www.epa.gov/rcraonline/index.htm
EPA - Superfund: http://www.epa.gov/superfund/
EPA - Underground Storage Tanks: http://www.epa.gov/OUST/
Global Recycling Network: http://grn.com/grn/
The Whitman Companies, Inc.: http://www.whitmanco.com/

Water-Focused Sites

Center for Research in Water Resources (UT Austin): http://www.crwr.utexas.edu/
Clean Water Act NPDES Databases (EPA Region 6): http://www.epa.gov/earth1r6/6en/w/database.htm
Consortium of Institutes for Decentralized Wastewater Treatment: http://www.onsiteconsortium.org/
Groundwater and Drinking Water (EPA): http://www.epa.gov/safewater/
National Small Flows Clearinghouse (EPA funded): http://www.nesc.wvu.edu/nsfc/nsfc_index.htm
Texas Engineering Extension Service (Texas A&M): http://teexweb.tamu.edu/
Texas Wetlands Information Network (WetNet) (EPA funded, GLO hosted): http://www.glo.state.tx.us/wetnet/
Universities Council on Water Research: http://www.ucowr.siu.edu/
U.S. Geological Survey in Texas: http://tx.usgs.gov/
Water Environment Federation: http://www.wef.org/
Water Environment Research Foundation: http://www.werf.org/
The Water Librarians' Home Page (Robert Teeter): http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/waterlib.html
Water Online: http://www.wateronline.com/
Water Quality Information Center (USDA): http://www.nal.usda.gov/wqic/
Water Quality Association: http://www.wqa.org/
Water Resources of the United States (USGS): http://water.usgs.gov/
Water Data (USGS): http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/
Watershed Management Program (EPA): http://www.epa.gov/OWOW/watershed/

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