Otero Junior College Wheeler Library

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Alternative Fuels Data Center
Research reports on alternative fuels, maps of refueling stations, model clean cities programs, and more.

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Includes a glossary and definitions.

Air Toxics
Includes detailed information and emissions regulations for toxic air pollutants, Clear Air Act amendments, citizen's guides, risk assessment.

Mortality related to Pollution
A report from Natural Resources Defense Council noting that 64,000 premature deaths from cardiopulmonary causes may be attributable to particulate air pollution each year. Includes tables, top areas and hot spots for each state.

* Case Studies in Environmental Medicine
Extensive information on populations at risk, toxicity, treatments, and health hazards for environmental contaminants.

Your Neighborhood's Environmental Quality
Brief summary data on toxic release inventory, air quality, water quality, radon likelihood, gamma ray exposure, and mortality database of death counts and rathes for 17 categories of disease by state and gender.

ChemFinder
Search for chemicals by name, registry number, molecular weight, and formula.

Colorado Radiation Control Division
Regulations, environmental radiation (including Rocky Flats), indoor radon, and more.

Extoxnet
Pesticide information profiles, toxicology information briefs, toxicology issues of concern, factsheets, news and pointers to additional resources.

Material Safety Data Sheets
Chemical information such as known health risks, flammability, storage requirements, reactivity, toxic by-products for chemicals, guidelines for safe use.

Pesticide Poisoning Handbook
Pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, toxicology, symptoms and signs of poisoning, confirmation of poisoning, treatment of external poisoning, treatment of poisoning by ingestion.

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