Research & Publications

Are you working towards a safer and healthier neighborhood?

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

	Clearinghouses and networks
	Chemicals of concern
	Outreach, education, and assessments
	Laws and policy

Clearinghouses and networks

• Publications library (Washington Dept. of Ecology)
• Envirofacts Data Warehouse (US EPA)
• TOXNET – Toxicology Data Network (US National Library of Medicine)
• Clearinghouse of scientific research (Collaborative on Health and the Environment, Washington)
• Toxipedia – Connecting Science and People (Institute of Neurotoxicology and Neurological Disorders)
• Encyclopedia of Earth – Environmental Health (National Council for Science and the Environment)
• Environmental News Network
  

Chemicals of concern

• Toxics Monitoring (Washington Dept. of Ecology)
• National Water-Quality Assessment Program (US Geological Survey)
• Puget Sound Water Quality Studies (Washington Dept. of Ecology)
• Lead Technical Studies (US EPA)
• BFR (Brominated Flame Retardants) Alternatives - reports from other counties (Clean Production Action)
  

Outreach, education, and assessments

• Reducing Toxic Threats Statewide Household Survey, April 2007 (Washington Dept. of Ecology)
• Consumer Survey 2007: Green Building Awareness (Washington Department of Ecology and Built Green Washington)
• Going Green: An Examination of the Green Trend and What It Means to Consumers and the Consumer Electronic Industry, January 2009 (Consumer Electronics Association)

Laws and policy

• Children’s Safe Products Act in Washington (Washington Dept. of Ecology)
• Europe’s REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemical Substances, European Commission)
• 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)

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The Washington Department of Ecology funds this website with State Toxics Control Account funds and Worker-Right-to-Know fees.