Related Resources

http://nursingworld.org/mods/mod370/cehcver.htm
Environmental Health in the Health Care Setting

http://nursingworld.org/mods/mod250/CESAVERS.HTM
Environmentally Healthy Schools

http://enviRN.umaryland.edu
A one-stop shop created by the University of Maryland School of Nursing for nurses interested in environmental health.

Environmental Health Listserv
This listserv (online discussion) was created 5 years ago for nurses who are especially interested in environmental health. The listserv is moderated, meaning that there is a gatekeeper and information can only be sent by the moderator, who is on staff at the Environmental Health Education Center at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. Anyone can send the moderator information for distribution to the listserv. (To join the listserv, please email bsattler@son.umaryland.edu. Place "enviRN" in the subject area of the email message.)

www.epa.gov/
United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

• Safe Drinking Water Hotline: 1-800-426-4791

• Ground Water and Drinking Water:
  www.epa.gov/safewater

• Surf Your Watershed (database):
  www.epa.gov/surf

• Info on private wells - www.epa.gov/safewater/pwells1.html

• Office of Pesticides
  Telephone: 703-305-5017
  Web site:
  www.epa.gov/pesticides

National Directory of Integrated Pest Management in schools:

• http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/ipm/

• Office of Children's Health Protection:
  http://yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/ochpweb.nsf/homepage

• The National Lead Information Center: 1-800-424-LEAD

• EPA Lead Programs:
  www.epa.gov/lead

• National Pesticide Telecommunications Network: 1-800-858-7378

• Health effects information on individual pesticides:
  www.epa.gov/pesticides/reregistration/status.htm

• UV Protection (Sun Wise School Program):
  www.epa.gov/sunwise

• Indoor Air Quality:
  www.epa.gov/iaq

• Envirofacts Data Warehouse:
  www.epa.gov/enviro/index_java.html

• Mold Prevention Tips:
  www.epa.gov/iaq/molds/prevention.html

• Mold Remediation Protective Clothing:
  www.epa.gov/iaq/molds/whattowear.html

• Mold Remediation Cleanup Methods:
  www.epa.gov/iaq/molds/mold_remediation.html

• Dust Mites (Clear Your Home of Asthma Triggers):
  http://www.epa.gov/asthma/asthma.html

• Radon Test Kit (A Citizen's Guide to Radon):
  www.epa.gov/iaq/radon/pubs/citguide.html#howtotest

• Protect Your Family and Yourself from Carbon Monoxide Poisoning:
  www.epa.gov/iaq/pubs/coftsht.html

• Mercury: In Your Community and the Environment:
  www.epa.gov/grtlakes/bnsdocs/merccomm/merccomm.pdf

• Pesticide Product Recalls:
  www.epa.gov/pesticides/factsheets/alpha_fs.htm

www.CEHN.org
Children's Environmental Health Network -- Online resource guide

www.chej.org
Center for Health, Environment and Justice

www.cdc.gov/nceh/default.htm
National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). NCEH provides expertise in environmental pesticide surveillance and disease outbreak investigations.

www.cpsc.gov
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

CO Prevention:
cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/cospot.html#prevention
www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxfaq.html
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). For fact sheets and information on pesticides.

• Information Center: 1-888-422-8737 or ATSDRIC@cdc.gov

• Emergency Response Hotline: 404-639-4270

www.preventingharm.org
Preventing Harm, is a resource and action center on children and the environment.

www.noharm.org
Health Care Without Harm

www.h2e-online.org
Hospitals for a Healthy Environment

www.lungusa.org
The American Lung Association
Telephone: 1-800-LUNG-USA

www.scorecard.org
Environmental Defense Toxic Release Inventory

www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/ANSWERS/2001/advisory.html
FDA Fish Advisory

www.oehha.org/pdf/exec.pdf
Health Effects of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (California Environmental Protection Agency)

http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/5010.html
Underwriters Laboratories (UL) Standard for Carbon Monoxide Detectors

http://www.ianr.unl.edu/PUBS/water/g1333.htm
Lead Distillation Systems

www.wqa.org
Water Quality Association

www.nsf.org
NSF International: The Public Health and Safety Company

www.NursingWorld.org
Nursing World Organization

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