Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
An agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry works to prevent exposure and adverse human health effects and diminished quality of life associated with exposure to hazardous substances from waste sites, unplanned releases, and other sources of pollution present in the environment. Their web site features information on toxics as it relates to tribal affairs kids, parents, teachers and communities. It also features connections to an ombudsman resource, a toxics FAQ, a hazardous materials database, a listing of the top 20 hazardous substances, public health assessments of sites on the EPA National Priorities List and other resources.

American Public Health Association
The American Public Health Association is the oldest and largest organization of public health professionals in the world, representing members from over 50 occupations of public health. Their web site features information on the Association’s scientific and practice programs, publications, annual meeting, awards program, educational services, and advocacy efforts.

Association of Occupational & Environmental Clinics
The chief long term goal of AOEC is to facilitate the prevention and treatment of occupational and environmental illnesses and injuries through collaborative reporting and investigation of health problems. Information available on this site includes: exposure codes intended to cover the entire range of occupational and environmental exposures capable of causing illness; and links to Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units.

Autism Research Institute
The Autism Research Institute is primarily devoted to conducting research, and to disseminating the results of research, on the causes of autism and on methods of preventing, diagnosing and treating autism and other severe behavioral disorders of childhood. Their web site features information on Institute-developed diagnosis checklists, informational editorials, and information on ordering their publications.

Autism Society of America
The Autism Society of America promotes lifelong access and opportunities for persons within the autism spectrum and their families, to be fully included, participating members of their communities through advocacy, public awareness, education, and research related to autism. Their web site features information on autism, action alerts and updates on public issues relating to autism.

Beyond Pesticides/NCAMP
Beyond Pesticides/NCAMP provides the public with useful information on pesticides and alternatives to their use, helping people reduce or avoid the potential adverse public health and environmental effects associated with the use and misuse of pesticides. Their web site features downloadable reports on pesticides in schools and their other programs as well as order forms for additional publications.

Bio-Integral Resource Center
The Bio-Integral Resource Center specializes in finding non-toxic and least-toxic, integrated pest management (IPM) solutions to urban and agricultural pest problems. Their journals, IPM Practitioner and Common Sense Pest Control Quarterly, reviews scientific literature for new ideas and approaches to pest management. Their web site features information on ordering their materials and on-line services available to their members.

Birth Defect Research for Children
Birth Defect Research for Children provides parents and expectant parents with information about birth defects and support services for their children. The organization has a parent-matching program that links families who have children with similar birth defects. They also sponsor the National Birth Defect Registry, a research project that studies associations between birth defects and exposures to environmental toxins. Their web site features information on membership and ordering their materials; it also includes abstracts of the factsheets and special reports that are available in full-text versions in the members area.

Center for Health Environment and Justice
The Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ) was founded in 1981, as the Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste, by Lois Gibbs a community leader at Love Canal. CHEJ believes in environmental justice, the principle that people have the right to a clean and healthy environment regardless of their race or economic standing. Their web site features information on their national toxics-focused campaigns and links to other resources.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It performs many of the administrative functions for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a sister agency of CDC. The Director of CDC also serves as the Administrator of ATSDR. Their web site features information on health advisories, statistics and links to related national and international agencies.

Children with Attention Deficit Disorders
Founded by concerned parents, Children with Attention Deficit Disorders works to improve the lives of people with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder through education, advocacy and support. Their web site features selected articles from their news magazine, factsheets and links to related organizations and information resources.

Children's Health Environmental Coalition
Founders Jim and Nancy Chuda lost their only child, Colette, to a rare form of non-genetic cancer that they believe was caused by environmental toxins. CHEC is a national grassroots organization dedicated to protecting children, preventing childhood cancers and other illnesses, and helping parents make choices that reflect every parent's love and concern for their children. Their web site offers The Health e House, a guide to toxin-free homes.

Children's Environmental Health Network
The Children's Environmental Health Network is a national multi-disciplinary project whose mission is to promote a healthy environment and protect the fetus and the child from environmental health hazards. Their web site provides information on the issue of children's environmental health, articles and briefings on issues including air pollution, endocrine disrupters, right-to-know laws and pesticides, and links to sources of information and resources in the field.

Clean Water Action
Clean Water Action is a 700,000-member national citizens' organization working for clean, safe and affordable water, prevention of health-threatening pollution, creation of environmentally-safe jobs and businesses, and empowerment of people to make democracy work. Clean Water Action organizes strong grassroots groups and campaigns to protect our environment, health, economic well-being and community quality of life. The organization grew out of an early 1970s study of water and toxics problems nationwide and helped win passage for the original Safe Drinking Water Act and Clean Water Act.

Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders
The Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders is an international professional organization committed to promoting and facilitating the education and general welfare of children and youth with behavioral and emotional disorders. Their web site features contact information and information on ordering various publications.

Cure Autism Now
The Cure Autism Now Foundation, founded by parents, doctors, and researchers, is dedicated to promoting biomedical and genetic research to find a cure for autism. Their web site features an autism-related calendar and information on research funded by the foundation, action and research updates and links to other resources.

Developmental Delay Resources
Developmental Delay Resources is dedicated to meeting the needs of those working with children who have developmental delays in sensory motor, language, social, and emotional areas. The organization publicizes research into determining identifiable factors that would put a child at risk and maintains a registry, tracking possible trends. Their web site provides information on ordering their various publications and links to related resources.

Ecology Center of Ann Arbor
The Ecology Center is a regional leader in the struggle for clean air, safe water, healthy communities, and environmental justice. The Center's Environmental Health Project works to uncover the connections between environmental pollutions and human health. Their web site features extensive information on the Center's programs and publications, factsheets, and Michigan-focused links to related organizations.

Endocrine Disrupter Resource Center
The Endocrine Disrupter Resource Center, a project of by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, provides information about endocrine-disrupting chemicals, their sources and health effects, and to link research sources and organizations working on those issues. Their web suite features information about known or suspected endocrine disrupters, a database of active groups, a calendar of events, and links to related web sites.

Environmental Defense
Environmental Defense is dedicated to protecting the environmental rights of all people, including future generations. Among these rights are clean air, clean water, healthy, nourishing food, and a flourishing ecosystem. They also believe that a sustainable environment will require economic and social systems that are equitable and just. Environmental Defense also sponsors Scorecard which provides easily accessible local environmental information and links to fax a polluting company, contact your elected representatives, or volunteer with environmental organizations working in your community.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
The EPA is the federal agency charged with protecting human health and safeguarding the natural environment. Their web site features extensive links to their various programs such as children's health, pesticides, pollutants and toxics, waste and water. It also includes links to various hotlines, databases and federal laws and regulations.

Environmental Research Foundation
Environmental Research Foundation works to provide understandable scientific information about the influence of toxic substances on human health and the environment, helping people find the information they need to fight for environmental justice in their own communities. They may be best known for publishing Rachel's Environment & Health Weekly, which provides timely information on toxic substances and other environmental hazards. Their web site features information on obtaining a free email subscription to Rachel and a searchable archive of all it's issues which can provide a powerful tool for tracking the history of specific issues and concerns.

Environmental Working Group
Environmental Working Group has developed collaborative relationships with hundreds of public interest organizations throughout the United States. The threat posed to infants and children by pesticides and other toxic chemicals is an area of special emphasis. Their Clearinghouse on Environmental Advocacy and Research monitors and assess the strategies, tactics and major players in the anti-environment movement such as "wise-use" and corporate front groups. Their web site features most of the organization's publications and numerous searchable databases.

Family Voices
Family Voices is a network of families from throughout the United States who have children with special health needs and caregivers, professionals, and friends whose lives have been touched by these children and their families. Their web site includes information on their programs and publications and both English and Spanish language versions of links to other resources.

Greenpeace
Greenpeace is an independent campaigning organization that uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems, and to force solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future. Their web site features information on current campaign focuses including endocrine disrupters, persistent organic pollutants, dioxin and polyvinyl chloride.

Health Care Without Harm
Health Care Without Harm is a collaborative campaign working to eliminate pollution in health care practices without compromising safety or care. Health care practices, especially medical waste incineration, are a leading source of dioxin and mercury emissions. The campaign promotes comprehensive pollution prevention practices and the development and use of environmentally safe materials, technology and products. Their web site features information on their current campaigns, a library of campaign related material, and links to the health care industry and its consituencies, scientific databases, environmental organizations, government agencies and universities.

GBPSR's Human Health and the Environment Project
The Human Health and the Environment Program of the Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility works to educate the medical community on the linkages between environmental exposures and health; activate the medical community to protect the environment and public health assist community groups with technical issues relating to human health and environmental exposure; and participate in public policy debates on public health and environment issues. This web page features information on the Project's reports and links to related organizations.

La Leche League International
La Leche League International is dedicated to providing education, information, support, and encouragement to women who want to breastfeed. The organization also provides health care professionals with continuing education opportunities and the latest research on lactation management. Their web site features and extensive FAQ on breastfeeding issues and ordering information for their publications.

Learning Disabilities Association of America
The Learning Disabilities Association of America is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for all individuals with learning disabilities and their families, to alleviating the restricting effects of learning disabilities, and to supporting endeavors to determine the causes of learning disabilities. Their web site features information on their state and local chapters, contact information for other learning disabilities related groups, and information on ordering publications and books.

Learning Disabilities Association of Canada
The Learning Disabilities Association of Canada is dedicated to advance the education, employment, social development, legal rights and general well-being of people with learning disabilities. Through its provincial and territorial members, it has an established a network of more than 140 community chapters across the country. Their web site features information on learning disabilities in the areas of prevention, early identification, assessment, education, intervention, social interaction, health, coping skills, family support, advocacy, transitions, employment, and justice.

Louisiana Environmental Action Network
Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN) works to change the balance of power and challenge the insanity of continued economic and ecological suicide as practiced Lousiana-style. By empowering community organizations and individuals, LEAN is helping make Louisiana's communities safer, healthier places to live. LEAN's Ministerial Alliance for Environmental Justice helps to educate the religious community on environmental issues facing their parishes and communities, and empower them to become leaders in environmental stewardship. Their web site provides information on their programs and links to other resources within Louisiana and nationally.

National Environmental Trust
National Environmental Trust is dedicated to educating the American public on contemporary environmental issues. Their web site features information on right-to-know laws as they pertain to women, children, people of color, the workplace, industry spin, and successful uses of right-to-know at the local and state level.

U.S. National Library of Medicine
The on-line service of the National Library of Medicine features every significant program of the Library, all of their searchable databases and databanks of bibliographic citations, full text (when available), archival collections of prominent biomedical scientists, and images. This includes the consumer-oriented MEDLINEplus, PubMed or Internet Grateful Med, TOXNET, and ClinicalTrials.gov.

National Women’s Health Network
National Women’s Health Network is a health advocacy organization dedicated to giving women a greater voice in the health care system in the United States. Their web site provides information on ordering materials from its information clearinghouse.

Natural Resources Defense Council
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has consistently investigated and litigated in all major issues of environmental concern. Since its 1997 report Our Children at Risk, NRDC has kept a strong focus on toxic threats to children's health. Their web site features information on kids health, health threats and effects, pesticides, farming and organic foods, and a exhaustive collection of articles, briefings, backgrounders, guides and FAQs.

Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
The Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides works to protect people and the environment by advancing healthy solutions to pest problems. Their web site features an extensive list of downloadable factsheets and reports on pesticides and alternatives.

Our Stolen Future
Our Stolen Future explores the emerging science of endocrine disruption: how some synthetic chemicals interfere with the ways that hormones work in humans and wildlife. The web site provides science updates, information about policy debates, and suggestions for minimizing risks related to hormonally-disruptive contaminants.

Pesticide Action Network North America
Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) works to replace pesticides with ecologically sound alternatives, linking health, consumer, labor, environment, progressive agriculture and public interest groups throughout North America and worldwide. PANNA publishes weekly and quarterly updates and newsletters via email. Their web site features current and back issues of their publications as well as factsheets about toxic pesticides and a searchable database of articles and reports from a wide variety of non-profit groups.

Physicians for Social Responsibility
Physicians for Social Responsibility began as an anti-nuclear movement, but with the decline of the Cold War has grown to also address more insidious environmental threats to human survival, such as global warming, ozone depletion, toxic chemicals, and the world population explosion. Their web site features extensive information and links about persistent organic pollutants, medical waste incineration and dioxin.

US/State Public Interest Research Groups
The national and state Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs) are a non-partisan network of member-supported public interest watchdogs. They publish reports on a wide variety of public interest topics. Their web site features information about air pollution, water pollution, right-to-know laws, taxpayer subsidies for corporate polluters, landfill and incinerator issues, and persistent organic pollutants and links to each individual state PIRG, where local campaigns are highlighted.

The 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 rtknet.org, users can identify specific factories and their environmental effects; analyze reinvestment by banks in their communities; and assess people and communities affected. The Right-to-Know Network is a project sponsored by OMB Watch and The Unison Institute.

Science and Environmental Health Network
The Science and Environmental Health Network was formed by members of the scientific community to respond to virulent attacks on the environmental agenda. The Network is dedicated to developing: policies of prudence rather than policies of degrade-and-cleanup; evaluating the abuses of risk assessment and cost benefit analysis, and; assessing strategies for responding to the misuse of science in public policy decision-making. Their current programs include: endocrine disruption, genetically modified organisms and advancing use of the precautionary principle. Their web site features information on the Network's programs and publications.

Sierra Club
Sierra Club was founded on the advice to "climb the mountains and get their good tidings" and the pursuit of this goal has played a key role in shaping the Club's history. Their web site’s toxics page includes information on a variety of toxics related subjects including Superfund, brownfields redevelopment, hazardous substances, public health as related to toxics in our environment and many other issues.

Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition was formed in direct response to substantial groundwater contamination caused by a leaking underground tank at a Silicon Valley high-tech electronics company. Their web site features extensive information on the environmental, occupational health and community impacts of the high-tech electronics industry, 150+ groundwater contamination sites in Santa Clara County, environmental justice maps documenting patterns of contamination in communities of color and low-income neighborhoods, and Toxic Release sites in Santa Clara County in proximity to schools, streams, and neighborhoods.

Toxic Environment Affects Children's Health
Toxic Environment Affects Children's Health is a group of concerned families from the Village of Toms River, New Jersey and nearby communities in which cancer has affected one or more family members. They are working to eradicate the high instances of cancer in their communities and to ensure that all children will be given the opportunity to grow up in a clean and healthy environment. Their web site features a history of the pollution, family stories, news articles and a discussion board.

Toxics Action Center
The Toxics Action Center trains and assists residents of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Maine to wage effective campaigns against stubborn polluters and red tape bureaucracies, pressuring officials to act to protect our neighborhoods' health and safety. Their web sites features information on their current campaigns and New England-focused resource links.

U.N. Environment Programme’s Clearinghouse on Persistent Organic Pollutants
This clearinghouse web site provides regular updates of information received from governments, international organizations and non-governmental organizations. This includes reports and documents available for downloading, position papers and a research bibliography.

Vermont Public Interest Research Group
Vermont Public Interest Research Group (VPIRG) works to promote an economically and environmentally sustainable future for Vermont. VPIRG's environmental health campaigns include pesticides and healthy schools reforms and responsible waste management, especially mercury and toxic sludge. Their web site features on-line reports and ordering information, action alerts, state legislative updates, and Vermont-focused links to other resources.

Washington Toxics Coalition
Washington Toxics Coalition is dedicated to protecting public health and the environment by identifying and promoting alternatives to toxic chemicals. Their programs emphasize research, grassroots organizing, publications and presentations, conferences, and our Toxics Hotline to provide reliable information about preventing pollution in homes, schools, workplaces, agriculture, and industry. Their web site features information on household issues such as pesticides, indoor air quality, food, water and more.

World Wildlife Fund
The World Wildlife Fund works to restrict or ban harmful chemicals stems that undermine the basic functions of entire ecosystems and negatively impact wildlife and human health. Their web site features information on endocrine disruption and persistent organic pollutants, strategies for reducing reliance on high-risk pesticides in agriculture and disease vector control, and a toxic chemicals action kit--how to reduce use and exposure to toxic chemicals.