Library: ESSH: Environmental Science, Safety, and Health: Websites

Environmental Web Sites

Environmental Protection Agency
The mission of EPA is to protect human health and the environment.
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency is a state agency whose goal is to protect the environment and public health by ensuring compliance with environmental laws.
Encyclopedia of Earth
Find articles, images, news, and videos
ScienceNews.org: Environment
Science News: Magazine of the Society for Science & the Public. Search by selecting topic, content type, and relevance.
United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission
U.S. Geological Survey: Natural Hazards
U.S. Geological Survey: Environmental Health

Want to know what's in your drinking water?
Search information about public water systems.

The Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS)
contains information about public water systems and their violations of EPA's drinking water regulations, as reported to EPA by the states.

Environmental Site Assessment Guidelines
Regulated Materials Review from the Ohio Department of Transportation, Office of Environmental Services.

Try searching Columbus, OH or your local neighborhood to see news on toxic releases in your area.

The Toxic Release Inventory (TRI)
Try a search here which retrieves data from the TRI database in Envirofacts.

Property Transfers and Environmental Site Assessments
An Ohio EPA fact sheet for 2015 from the Office of Compliance Assistance and Pollution Prevention.