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GENERAL
Amazing
Environmental Organization WebDirectory
Blue
Heron Environmental Network Inc. - Motto states,
"A better environment begins with you", we
believe that education and research combined with
responsible actions in stewardship by individuals and
others is the key to protecting and improving our
environment for future generations.
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
(CCHW), by Lois Gibbs 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.
Conservation Council of North Carolina
Earth Island Institute
- Earth Island Institute fosters the efforts of creative
individuals by providing organizational support in
developing projects for the conservation, preservation,
and restoration of the global environment.
Essential
- Links to various non-profit organizations tied into the
essential web server.
Global
Resource Action Center for the Environment - GRACE
works to form new links with the research, policy and
grassroots communities to preserve the future of the
planet and protect the quality of the environment.
Land For Tomorrow - A statewide partnership of conservationists, farmers, business leaders, local governments, health professionals, and community groups urging the North Carolina General Assembly to provide $1 billion over five years to protect the state's land, water, and special places before they are irreversibly lost.
National
Council for Science and the Environment
NC WARN
- North Carolina Waste Awareness and Reduction Network is
a member-based nonprofit helping to protect communities
and the general public from the increasing health damage
associated with toxic and radioactive pollution.
Protect
All Children's Environment - Established in 1987 for
people poisoned by the now-banned pesticide, Chlordane,
PACE exists to give comfort and support. Through PACE,
pesticide victims provide support to fellow survivors on
an all-volunteer, not-for-profit basis.
Target
Earth - Serving the earth, serving the poor
Web
of Creation - A site designed for people and
communities to explore eco-justice issues and advocacy
from a faith-based perspective.
West
Virginia Highlands Conservancy - Formed in 1967 to
preserve the natural beauty of the West Virginia
Highlands, the Conservancy is the state's oldest
environmental advocacy organization. The WVHC has been
instrumental in creation of the Monongahela National
Forest Wilderness areas and in preventing the destruction
of Canaan Valley.
AIR
Daily Ozone
readings and forecasts:
North
Carolina (Raleigh, Charlotte, Asheville,
Fayetteville, & Hickory)
North
Carolina (Piedmont)
Virginia
South
Carolina
U.S.
cities
View EPA animated maps of daily ozone
concentrations Northeast
, Southeast
EPA Air
Pollution maps - Nonattainment maps showing areas where air pollution
levels persistently exceed national air quality
standards. Maps displaying the locations of air pollution
monitoring sites, operated by state and local agencies. Maps
of major stationary sources of air pollution. More EPA maps and charts
showing air pollution info
The North Carolina Clean Air Coalition
formed to address air pollution issues including
ground-level ozone and nitrogen oxide emissions from coal
plants: Appalachian
Voices,
Blue Ridge Environmental
Defense League, Clean Water Fund
of NC, Conservation
Council of NC, Environmental
Defense, NC
Public Interest Research Group, NC Sierra Club,
Southern Environmental
Law Center, & Western North Carolina
Alliance.
The Bucket Brigade is a community based
air monitoring project. - http://www.igc.org/cbesf/rag11/rag11.html#Richmond
and Bucket Brigade
.
Greater Roanoke
Valley Asthma and Air Quality Coalition - mission is
to improve air quality and respiratory health for the
greater Roanoke Valley (Virginia)
Virginia Clean Air
Advocates - an adhoc group dedicated to the
mobilization and coordination of resources to better
educate the public and policy-makers about effective
public policy initiatives that will improve the quality
of the outdoor air across the Commonwealth of Virginia.
GLOBAL WARMING
Watch the brand-new short film, Zero Waste for Zero
Warming: Click
here to watch this fast-paced, two-minute animated film
calling on us to take action to stop the waste and warming cycle
that is trashing our climate and communities.
FOREST ISSUES
Dogwood
Alliance - provides additional info regarding chip
mills
Appalachian
Voices - forest protection
and restoration, chip mills, clean air, and mountain top
removal information
Heartwood
- action alerts for forests across the central, southern,
and eastern United States
Virginia Forest
Watch - a grass-roots
based coalition of individuals and environmental groups
organizing throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia. We
are dedicated to maintaining and enhancing the quality of
our natural environment through activism and education.
Our work encompasses local efforts on both public and
private lands, including National Forest monitoring and
Revision Plan participation and joining with our friends
in Heartwood and the Dogwood Alliance in fighting the
proliferation of chipmills in the Southeast.
Virginians
For Wilderness - provides a fact sheet on clearcuts,
plus extensive flora and fauna data for sections of the
GW-JNF
Virginia
Wilderness Committee - A citizens' group working
since 1969 to protect suitable public lands as Wilderness
Areas in the National Wilderness Preservation System.
SOLID WASTE
ISSUES
Citizen Alliance to Prevent Imported
Trash - CAPIT is here to ensure that citizens are
aware of efforts to bring out-of-area garbage to Hampton
Roads, VA and surrounding areas, and to let you know how
you can help stop it.
GrassRoots
Recycling Network - The
GrassRoots Recycling Network is a North American network
of community-based activists dedicated to achieving a
sustainable economy based on the principle of Zero Waste.
Central messages are: Zero Waste; Create Jobs from
Discards; and End Subsidies for Wasting.
The Network of
Waste Activists Stopping Trash Exports is an
informal, Michigan-based, grassroots organization
dedicated to educating the public about the huge problems
associated with transborder (both state and national)
shipment and disposal of solid wastes.
NC county-level solid
waste regulation: offsite
weblink providing details about North Carolina's solid
waste laws, which give counties strong oversite and
control.
MEDICAL WASTE
ISSUES
Health
Care Without Harm
FACTORY HOG
FARM ISSUES
American
Farmland Trust - This website has links to all Right
To Farm statutes in all 50 states, other ag laws and
pending ag related legislation for all 50 states.
EDF
Hogwatch - Environmental Defense Fund site providing
info on North Carolina Animal Feeding Operations.
Environmental
Interest Organization, Inc. - Provides info on
Virginia Animal Feeding Operations. EIO's goal is making
it easy for people to find information about local
environmental interest sites.
Factory
Farm - This site contains an organized collection of
links to facts, news, and ideas about the problem of
factory farming.
NUCLEAR WASTE
ISSUES
Alliance
for Nuclear Accountability - A grassroots network of
34 organizations working in the shadows of the nuclear
weapons complex on health, cleanup and weapons issues.
Center
for Safe Energy - Promoting strategies for energy
efficiency in the United States and former Soviet Union.
Duke
Energy Employee Advocate
Institute
for Energy and Environmental Research
Nuclear
Information and Resource Service
NC WARN
- North Carolina Waste Awareness and Reduction Network is
a member-based nonprofit helping to protect communities
and the general public from the increasing health damage
associated with toxic and radioactive pollution.
ENERGY
EFFICIENCY ISSUES
Agricultural
Resources Center - The Agricultural Resources Center
(ARC) , chartered in North Carolina in 1976, is a
private, nonprofit public interest organization which
engages in research and public education on issues and
policies related to safe food, family farm agriculture
and preservation of natural resources with a special
interest in pesticides.
FORCE
- Friends of Regional
Culture and Environment - The mission of FORCE is to
increase public awareness of the impact of 765kV
transmission lines on local communities and the
environment. Special emphasis on the proposed AEP power
line in southwest Virginia.
WATER
Clean Water
Network
Neuse
River website - This includes some pictures of
Hurricane Floyd's effects.
TRANSPORTATION
National Hazardous Materials Route Registry - generate reports which lists Transportation
of Hazardous Materials; Designated, Preferred, and
Restricted Routes for states
Federal Highway Administration
LEGAL INFORMATION
Clean Air
Act
Environmental
Law - Indiana University World Wide Web Virtual Law
Library
TEA-21
- The Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century was
enacted June 9, 1998 as Public Law 105-178. TEA-21
authorizes the Federal surface transportation programs
for highways, highway safety, and transit for the 6-year
period 1998-2003.
INTERNATIONAL
LINKS
Greenworld
- a non-governmental charity environmental organization
working in St.-Petersburg and Leningrad Region of Russia
Okinawa
Environmental Network
Russian
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Site - nuclear safety and
non-proliferation, nuclear terrorism and nuclear weapons,
spent nuclear fuel, utilization of plutonium and
radioactive wastes, news, publications, comments, reviews
of press, cartoons.
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Zona
Nucleare - Nuclear Zone provides analogies
and facts regarding the choice of a nuclear waste
deposit in Italy and dealing in particular with
the Government decision of November 13th 2003
choosing the town of Scanzano Ionico in
Basilicata as the only possible site. |
Regulations.gov - Proposed
regulations for each federal agency can be found here.
Federal
Register - The federal register is published daily
Monday - Friday. This link will be for the current issue.
U.S. Department of Energy
Department
of Energy
U.S.
Dept of Energy Office of Fissile Materials Disposition
Nuclear
Regulatory Commission
U.S. Forest Service
U.S.
Forest Service National Headquarters - has links to
U.S. forests, forest service handbook, NEPA, and NFMA
North
Carolina National Forests - link to Croatan,
Nantahala, Pisgah, and Uwharrie National Forests
Francis
Marion and Sumter National Forests
George
Washington-Jefferson National Forests
Cherokee
National Forest
Southern
Forest Resource Assessment
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental
Protection Agency National Headquarters
EPA
Region 4 - North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee
EPA
Region 3 - Virginia
Toxics Release
Inventory
Environmental
Violations - to report violations to the EPA
EPA Air
Pollution maps - Nonattainment maps showing areas where air pollution
levels persistently exceed national air quality
standards. Maps displaying the locations of air pollution
monitoring sites, operated by state and local agencies. Maps
of major stationary sources of air pollution. More EPA maps and charts
showing air pollution info
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U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Endangered Species Page - includes ESA,
species listings
Federal Highway Administration
North
Carolina Agencies
NC
Department of Environment and Natural Resources
NC
DENR Environmental Enforcement page
North
Carolina Division of Air Quality Public Calendar
South
Carolina Agencies
South
Carolina Department of Health and Environmental
Control
South
Carolina Department of Health and Environmental
Control Public Notices
Virginia
Agencies
Virginia
Department of Environmental Quality
Virginia
Department of Environmental Quality Public Notices
Virginia
Department of Environmental Quality Public Calendar
Virginia
Regulatory Town Hall (regs, meetings and public
calendar)
Tennessee
Agencies
Department
of Environment and Conservation
Tennessee
Department of Environment and Conservation Public
Participation Opportunities
Georgia
Agencies
Department
of Natural Resources
Environmental
Protection Division (includes link to events
calendar)
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