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
	Lewis County pilot project

Chemicals in Your Community

• Toxics Release Inventory - information on businesses that use, store, transfer or release toxic substances (US EPA)
• Envirofacts Data Warehouse (US EPA)
• 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)
  

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)
• Lead Poisoning Prevention 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)
• Environmental News Network (Environmental News)

For more information, please contact us.

ToxicFreeTips@ecy.wa.gov

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