Resource Library

Dangers in Your Community: Guides and publications that relate to environmental health issues that could arise in your home or community.

• Fact Packs on Other Potential Community Dangers
  • Property Value Fact Pack
  • Cement Kiln Fact Pack
  • PFCs Fact Sheets
  • Cancer Clusters Fact Pack
  • Community Health Surveys
  • Environmental Testing
  • Deep Well Injection
  • Soil Burners Fact Pack
  • Burning Tires Fact Pack
  • Indoor Pollution Fact Pack
  • Local Ordinances Fact Pack
  • Cell Phone Towers Fact Pack
  • Asphalt Plants Fack Pack
  • Waste Transfer Station Fact Pack
• Hazards of Dioxin
  • American People’s Report
  • American People’s Report: Technical Report
  • Standing Our Ground
  • Dying From Dioxin
• Landfills
  • Landfill Failures Fact Pack
  • Construction and Demolition Landfills Fact Pack
  • Landfills: Trashing Earth
  • Landfills: Health Studies
• Toxics in School
  • PCB Fact Pack
  • Safe School Siting Toolkit
  • Building Safe Schools
  • Green Purchasing Toolkit
  • Guide to Green Cleaning for Home
  • A Parent’s Guide to Reducing Children’s Environmental Health Risks
  • Poisoned Schools: Invisible Threats, Visible Action
  • Creating Safe Learning Schools: Invisible Threats, Visible Action
  • Creating Safe Learning Zones: ABCs of Healthy Schools

Organizing and Leadership: Guides and publications that will help you become a leader in your community’s movement to take on polluters.

• Leadership Development
  • How to Deal with a Proposed Facility
  • How to Deal with Trouble
  • Fight to Win: Leadership Handbook
  • Research Guide for Leaders
  • Running for Office
  • User’s Guide to Experts
  • User’s Guide to Lawyers
  • Should Your Group Incorporate?
  • Legal Advice for Community Leaders
  • Organizing Handbook
  • Community Organizing Wins
  • Fundraising Beyond Bake Sales
  • Empowering Ourselves
  • How to Win Public Hearings

General Issues: Guides and publications designed to inform you about health dangers, policy, relocation, and many more topics. 

• General Issue Guides
  • Common Questions about Health Effects
  • Songs Not Speeches
  • Asthma
  • Behind Closed Doors
  • Detoxifying your Home
  • Monsanto Investigation
  • Everything About Facility Siting
  • How Clean is Clean?
  • Safety Plans
  • SLAPP Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation
  • Risk Assessment Fact Pack
  • Relocation: Getting Organized and Getting Out (Go Go)
  • Using Your Right-to-Know
•  General Reports/Books
  • 25 Years of Citizen Activism
  • No Silver Lining
  • Science Issues for Community Leaders
  • From the Files of a Whistleblower: William Sanjour’s Memoir
  • Achieving the Impossible

Media Outreach: Guides and publications that will help you learn the best strategies for interacting with the media and using the media to spread your message. 

• Messaging
  • Bringing Your Message to the People
  • Framing Your Message
  • The Creative Brief
  • Model for Your Message
  • Visionary Vocabulary
  • Talking Precaution
• Media Events
  • How to Hold a Media Event
  • Writing News Advisories and Releases
    • Sample News Advisories
  • Media Event Tactics
  • The Do’s and Don’ts of Talking to the Media
• Writing for Media
  • How to Write Effective Letters, Op-Eds, Editorials, Blogs, Twitter and Facebook Posts
• Media Glossary

PVC: While PVCs are no longer part of an active campaign for CHEJ, we still have a wealth of resources to provide regarding the potential dangers that come from PVCs.

• Bad News Comes in 3s
• Bad News Comes in 3s Exec Summary
• Bad News Comes in 3s Major Findings Factsheet
• Bad News Comes in 3s Top Ten States Landfill PVC Fact Sheet
• Volatile Vinyl
• Back-to-School Guide to PVC-Free School Supplies
• Back-to-School Wallet Guide for PVC Free School Supplies
• Our Health and PVC Fact Sheet
• PVC the Poison Plastic Fact Sheet
• PVC Flooring and Toxic Cleaning Products Fact Sheet
• Top Ten Reasons Your School Should Go PVC Free Factsheet
• PVC and Environmental Justice Factsheet
• PVC Policies Around the World Factsheet
• Toxic Toys R US
• Pass up the Poison Plastic— The PVC Free Guide for your Family and Home
• Choosing Safer Plastics— A Plastics Wallet Guide

Love Canal: CHEJ was born out of Lois Gibbs and the citizens of Love Canal’s historic fight to a healthy community. Read more about these events here!

• Love Canal: A Fact Pack
• Love Canal: A Guidebook
• Love Canal: A Chronology of Events
• Love Canal: The Story Continues
• Past publications of Everyone’s Back Yard

Recursos en Español: Una organización, Women’s Voices for the Earth, ha creado publicaciones que tratan de los peligros que presentan las toxinas en el hogar. Aquí compartimos sus publicaciones para la gente hispanoparlante: es importante educarse sobre los riesgos de productos comunes. 

• Peligros en el Hogar
• El Uso Exagerado de los Desinfectantes
• Chem Fatale (Productos Femeninos Tóxicos)