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This guide provides tops and information on how to clean your home without using toxic products....

This collection of heart-warming, humorous and inspiring short stories illustrates how people have stepped forward to meet the challenges facing their communities and celebrates their willingness to e...

The impetus for this report is to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Superfund and assess the status of the Superfund program at this critical juncture....

This fact pack covers asphalt production, fumes, community action against asphalt plants, their health impacts, and news items relevant to asphalt plants at the time of production....

This fact pack includes the following information: (1) an overview of asthma; (2) discussions on how to control and prevent asthma; (3) asthma's relationship to environmental health issues; (4) asthma...

This report reveals evidence about how the chemical industry has methodically and strategically attempted to influence policy makers and conceal from and mislead the public about the health impacts of...

In this guidebook, you’ll learn to: set a fundraising goal based on real, budgeted expenses; create a diversified funding base not dependent on any few, large donations; build the relationships nece...

This fact pack on tire incineration is in response to numerous requests for information that we have had on this topic. This fact pack includes three types of information: (1) selections from technica...

This fact pack provides and overview on identifying, tracking, and tackling cancer clusters....

This fact pack includes three types of information: (1) selections from issue papers describing the debate around public health, legislation, and regulations of cell phone towers; (2) most recent heal...

A fact pack about how industry is using kilns to burn hazardous waste, a deceptive practice called “sham recycling”. This fact pack includes four types of information: business practices reports, ...

This guidebook contains answers to questions frequently asked by people who feel that they should be the ones deciding whether to be hysterical about potential health effects related to pollution in t...

This guide is meant to help groups on the journey to attaining clean and safe air in their community. The goal is to help community groups learn the lessons of a successful grassroots organizing effor...

This fact pack provides and overview on how construction and demolition waste landfills can affect your health, how they are created, and how they can be curtailed....

60% of U.S. toxic waste is pumped in to wells where it is then free to contaminate drinking water and enter the food chain. As incinerators are closed, deepwell injection may become the next threat to...

This booklet informs how to identify and protect yourself against harmful products and practices within your home and community....

This guidebook reflects the collective work of a group of 43 women who attended a conference held in Arlington, VA in 1987. Although some of this information is out-of-date, we feel strongly that the ...

You may think you are facing an environmental health threat and want the area around your home tested, but not know what you need, where to look, or what to look for. This newly revised handbook tells...

This booklet contains questions and concerns you should raise about any hazardous waste facility, either proposed or existing, including landfills, deep well injections, site surface impoundments, inc...

This handbook is for leaders who want to start or strengthen organizations addressing environmental and/or health issues. The first section describes organizing methods applied to environmental issues...

This short report summarizes the health effects of PCBs....

On September 21, 1985, CHEJ convened a meeting in Arlington, Virginia to discuss how much cleanup is necessary at toxic waste sites. The meeting was called because of the confusion, controversy and di...

The purpose of this manual is to distill the experiences of grassroots environmental justice groups served by the Center for Health, Environment and Justice since 1981. This guidebook is a step-by-ste...

This guidebook addresses four different kinds of "trouble" that CHEJ members have raised as concerns, such as legal trouble, political trouble, physical intimidation, and internal trouble. It also exp...

The purpose of this publication is to help you make public hearings work for you instead of against you, and to help you use public hearings as part of a winning grassroots organizing strategy....

This fact pack provides an overview on the design, upkeep, and problems related to landfills in the U.S....

The purpose of this guidebook is to serve as a resource for people opposing a new landfill or landfill expansion. It provides and overview of landfill design, regulations, and the reasons that landfi...

The idea behind this booklet is to explain in simple terms common legal problems which crop up in hazardous waste lawsuits, or in government enforcement of hazardous waste laws and regulations....

This fact pack includes three types of information: (1) how local ordinance can help empower your community; (2) a list of ordinances available through CHEJ; and (3) examples of ordinances used by com...

This fact pack provides a short overview of the events that occurred at Love Canal that led to the evacuation of more than 900 families in 1978 and 1980....

This is an abbreviated version of the Love Canal tragedy written by the leaders of the Love Canal Homeowners Association. It gives a brief history of Love Canal, goes through a summary of key events, ...

This fact pack provides a short overview of the events that occurred at Love Canal that led to the evacuation of more than 900 families in 1978 and 1980....

The young housewife who organized the residents of the Love Canal neighborhood to publicize their plight and protest to state and federal officials updates the struggle to persuade government official...

The articles in this guidebook are organizing "tools" that people can use to address problems or issues that they or their organization confront. It can also serve as a refresher on basic organizing a...

A fact pack about the health effects of living in contact with power lines and resources for fighting their presence within communities. This fact pack includes four types of information: definitions ...

This fact pack is full of information on the effects waste sites have on property values. We have included materials from nonprofit organizations, newspapers, journals and the internet in an effort to...

The purpose of this guidebook is to show you how to win relocation for your community. It is intended to help community groups think through what they want. It helps leaders learn from other communiti...

This booklet is to educate our members and other interested parties who are seeking or considering running for public office....

Communities are often faced with "plans" to clean up and monitor hazardous waste sites, spill and other forms of environmental contamination. Eventually, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the...

This guidebook is meant to explain in simple terms common scientific issues and concepts that often come up in discussing the impacts of exposure to toxic chemicals....

This guide is intended to raise the most important questions and address key issues on whether or not your group will need to incorporate during your environmental efforts....

In the history of people struggling for justice, music has always played a key role. In fact, there’s hardly been a successful movement for social justice that didn’t prominently feature music. Ho...

In this fact pack you will learn about Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP); anti-SLAPP legislation; people who were successful in fighting a SLAPP; current SLAPP news; and organiza...

In recognition of Superfund’s 35th Anniversary, this report examines the decline in Superfund’s financial stability and urges the reinstatement of “polluter pays fees” to fund site cleanups. I...

This report emphasizes the need to reinstate the polluter pays fee within Superfund or else these dangerous sites will continue to worsen natural disaster sites with their leaked pollution....

In this report, we evaluate the Trump administration’s work on the Superfund program and his efforts to return Superfund cleanups “to their rightful place at the center of EPA’s core mission” ...

This is an informative ad holding Target accountable for PVC exposure among children from its plastic toys....

This fact sheet provides an overview on what to look for during the home buying process to ensure reduced exposure to toxic chemicals....

Superfund is the common name given to a law passed by the United States Congress in 1980. Also known as CERCLA (the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act), Superfund gi...

This guide provides a step-by-step plan for those considering seeking help from experts in their environmental efforts....

This guide provides a step-by-step plan for those considering seeking legal help in their environmental efforts. (Note: This is a book written by non-lawyers for non-lawyers about how to deal with law...

This manual explains the Emergency Planning and Community Right to-Know Act (EPCRA) law of SARA, its limitations, its strengths, and its weaknesses, while also defining what data industry is or isn’...

This fact pack includes three types of information: (1) selections from articles and papers describing the operations and design of Waste Transfer Stations; (2) selections from articles and summaries ...