Environmental Health Strategy Center

POLLUTERS
In many cases, individual industrial and commercial facilities continue to be significant sources of preventable toxic pollution. These include manufacturers, waste incinerators, power plants, hospitals and other large institutions, oil terminals and so on. The use and release of persistent toxic chemicals by industrial polluters increases health risks to workers and residents around the facility and poses long distance hazards as these chemicals are transported hundreds or thousands of miles away.

Find out more about toxic polluters in your community. The Right-to-Know Network, a service provided by OMB Watch, provides free access to numerous databases including the federal Toxics Release Inventory System. With the information available on RTK NET, you can identify specific factories and their environmental effects and assess the people and communities affected.

Get more facts on local pollution. Scorecard maps toxic releases and a variety of other environmental hazards and includes information on the health effects of chemicals. This is a service of Environmental Defense.

Download a copy of Citizen's Guide to Clean Production and references. This report by Clean Production Action covers the fundamental principles of the much needed transition to pollution free manufacturing and clean products and services.