Community Resources

Are you working towards a safer and healthier neighborhood?

Explore these websites, printable materials, and other community tools.

	Chemicals in your community
	Funding for communities
	Environmental justice
	Great ideas
	Research and publications

Chemicals in Your Community

• Chemicals in Washington State Summary Report 2004 (Washington Dept. of Ecology)
• Emergency Planning and Community-Right-to-Know (EPCRA) in Washington (Washington Dept. of Ecology)
• Toxics Release Inventory - information on businesses that use, store, transfer or release toxic substances (US EPA)
• Access US EPA environmental data (US EPA)
  

Environmental Justice

• Ecology’s Environmental Justice Coordinator or call 360-407-6177
• A Study on Environmental Equity in Washington State 1995 (Washington Dept. of Ecology)
  
• Pacific Northwest Environmental Justice Program (US EPA)
  

Funding for Communities

• Public participation grants (Washington Dept. of Ecology)
• CARE grants (US EPA)
• Environmental Justice Grants (US EPA)

Great Ideas

• Toxipedia - Connecting science and people
• Healthy World Theater
• Europe's Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) policy
• Environmental Council of the States (ECOS)

Research & Publications

• Washington Dept. of Ecology publications (Spanish)
• Reducing Toxic Threats: Statewide Household Survey, April 2007 (Washington Dept. of Ecology)
• Toxics Reduction Strategy, April 2006 (City of Portland and Multnomah County, OR)
• The Future of Waste and Toxins in Washington, November 2007 (Washington Dept. of Ecology)
  
  

 

For more information, please contact us.

HSIEO@ecy.wa.gov

1-800-633-7585

Monday - Friday, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Or leave a message 24 hours/day

Were these resources useful? Please tell us about your visit.

The Washington Department of Ecology funds this website with Worker Right-to-Know fees collected from Washington businesses by the Washington Department of Labor and Industries.