Resource Library
A large part of what we do here at CHEJ is pool our knowledge to create resources to help communities fight back against polluters. Our publications cover a wide variety of issues, from general education on common environmental health issues to guides on how to lead a movement. As always, feel free to reach out if you have any questions about any of our publications.
Table of Contents
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
- Power Line 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
- Toxics in School
- PCB Fact Sheet
- 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)
