Public Databases on Toxics
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Public Databases on Toxics
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EPA Toxic Release Inventory (TRI)
The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), is a public database published by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that contains information on specific toxic chemical releases and other waste management activities reported annually by certain covered industry groups as well as federal facilities. This databse is a valuable source of information regarding toxic chemicals that are being used, manufactured, treated, transported, or released into the environment. You can search by for information by the facility, chemicals, geographic areas, or industry type (SIC code) at the county, state, and national level.
On the TRI website you can also link to the EPA’s Envirofacts Warehouse. The Warehouse provides environmental information from EPA databases on Air, Chemicals, Facility Information, Grants/Funding, Hazardous Waste, Risk Management Plans, Superfund, Toxic Releases, and other EPA databases. Envirofacts provides access to TRI data that is continually updated with the latest revisions.
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ToxFAQs™
Frequently Asked Questions About Contaminants Found at Hazardous Waste Sites
The ATSDR ToxFAQsTM is a series of summaries about hazardous substances developed by the ATSDR Division of Toxicology. Information for this series is excerpted from the ATSDR Toxicological Profiles and Public Health Statements. Each fact sheet serves as a quick and easy to understand guide. Answers are provided to the most frequently asked questions (FAQs) about exposure to hazardous substances found around hazardous waste sites and the effects of exposure on human health. |
Right to Know Network
The Right-to-Know Network provides free access to numerous databases, text files, and conferences on the environment, housing, and sustainable development. With the information available on RTK NET, you can identify specific factories and their environmental effects. It is operated by two nonprofit organizations-- OMB Watch and the Center for Public Data Access--and funded by various government agencies and foundations.
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Environmental Defense Scorecard
In the last few years, examples of chemical weapons programs in other states, such as the Johnston Athol and Tooele, UT sites, overwhelming demonstrate that . . .
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City of Eugene Toxics Right To Know Database
The Eugene Toxics Right-to-Know program was adopted by local voters in November 1996 as an amendment to the Eugene City Charter. Unlike other hazardous substance reporting programs, the Eugene charter amendment requires affected businesses to provide materials balance accounting, meaning that inputs and outputs of hazardous substances must be reported and must balance. Eugene’s database is unique in that it provides information about local use and emissions of pollutants. For
background information about Eugene's Toxics Law, click here.
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State of Washington Fertilizer Product Database
WSDA's fertilizer product database provides information on the metals concentrations of each of the nine heavy metals (arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, mercury, molybdenum, lead, nickel, selenium, and zinc) for which Washington State has standards.
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Medline
A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Health |
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Household Products Database
Health and Safety Information on Household Products. Offering searchs on Home, Products, Ingredients and MSDS.
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