• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry's (ATSDR) Information on Public Health Assessments and Health Consultations
  Since 1986, ATSDR has been required by law to conduct a public health assessment at each of the Superfund sites that are on EPA's National Priorities List. This page contains documents published after October 1, 2004.

• Air Pollution and Health Risk
  Provides information on how to evaluate and assess risks, particularly those from air pollution.

• Air Toxics Community Assessment and Risk Reduction Projects Database
  Database with information about efforts at the local level to measure, understand, and address air toxics emission. Designed to help ensure that communities designing and implementing their own assessments will be able to build upon past efforts and lessons learned.

• Air Toxics Risk Assessment (ATRA) Reference Library
  The ATRA reference library is designed to help with air toxics analyses at the facility and community-scale by providing information on the fundamental principles of risk-based assessment for air toxics. The library also includes information on how to apply those principles in different settings as well as strategies for reducing risk at the local level.

• Center for Disease Control's Protocol for Assessing Community Excellence in Environmental Health (PACE EH)
  Community Environmental Health Assessments (CEHA) seek to involve affected residents and other stakeholders in identifying and addressing environmental health problems in their communities. This page provides information on CEHA and communities.

• Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units Exit
  Contact information and resources, including factsheets and on-line training, from a network of experts in children's environmental health co-funded by EPA and ATSDR to ensure that children and communities have access to, usually at no cost, special medical knowledge and resources for children faced with a health risk due to a natural or human-made environmental hazard

• Risk Assessment for Toxic Air Pollutants: A Citizen's Guide
  Provides information to help the public understand risks and risk assessments.

• Risky Business: An Overview of Risk Assessment and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
  Discusses risk and discusses how risk assessment is used by EPA to analyze the potential for adverse human health or ecological effects due to the presence of toxic chemicals in the environment. Addresses how risks are assessed and describes how risk management is distinguished from risk assessment.

• Safer Choice
  Safer Choice helps consumers, businesses and purchasers identify cleaning and other household products made with ingredients that are safer for people and the environment.  

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