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GENERAL
Amazing
Environmental Organization WebDirectory
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.
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.
EcoWatch
- EcoWatch, in partnership with Waterkeeper Alliance, works to unite the voice of the grassroots environmental movement and mobilize millions of people to engage in democracy to protect human health and the environment.
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
TERC - Statistics for Action: TERC is partnering with environmental action groups in twelve states to advance the quantitative literacy skills needed to understand and solve pressing environmental problems.
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 Air Quality
readings and forecasts:
North
Carolina
Virginia
South
Carolina
U.S.
cities
The Bucket Brigade is a community based
air monitoring project. - 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)
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
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.
MEDICAL WASTE
ISSUES
Health
Care Without Harm
FACTORY HOG
FARM ISSUES
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 Hotseat - Nuclear News, Expert Interviews & Activist Opportunities
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.
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
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
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
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
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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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