Category: Dangers in Your Community

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

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. It also examines federal legislative efforts, the management of the Superfund program, and the impact of EPA’s Superfund Alternative Approach on community involvement during cleanup decisions and efforts.

This short report summarizes the health effects of PCBs.

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” in order to “protect the health of our citizens and the environment in which we all live.” We focus specifically on the work done by the EPA’s Superfund Task Force over the past two years.

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

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.

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 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 on how placements of these waste stations are an environmental justice issue; and (3) community organizations and programs in place to address the over whelming volume of trash that typically goes into a waste transfer stations. It also includes news clips describing community struggles to address problems posed by waste transfer stations.

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 publication.

This fact pack includes three types of information: (1) selections from issue papers describing the debate around public health, legislation, and regulations of cellular phone towers; (2) most recent health studies at the time of publishing and exposure issues of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) emitted from cellular phone towers; and (3) news clips describing community struggles to address problems posed by cellular towers and mobile phones. It also includes a section on cell phones featuring problems relating to health and disposal.