Links to Other Community Right-to-Know Resources -
Organizations that provide right-to-know information:

US EPA’s Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) home page (http://www.epa.gov/tri/index.htm) provides information about the federal government’s toxic chemical reporting program and links to the TRI Explorer for access to TRI data.

Environmental Defense’s Scorecard project (http://www.scorecard.org/) provides extensive and up-to-date environmental information linking searchable TRI data to interactive maps.

The Right-to-Know Network (http://rtk.net/) provides free access to numerous databases, text files, and conferences on the environment, housing, and sustainable development.

The Toxics Use Reduction Institute (http://www.turi.org/turadata/index.html) provides easy access to expanded right-to-know information (including data on the quantity of toxic chemicals used and shipped in products) collected under Massachusetts’ Toxics Use Reduction Act (TURA ).

The New Jersey Work Environment Council advocates for safe, secure jobs and a healthy, sustainable environment through an alliance of working people, unions, environmental, and community organizations. For a fact sheet highlighting the TRI’s usefulness and shortcomings, see http://www.njwec.org/fs_TRI%20fact%20sheet.html.

The City of Eugene, Oregon, has enacted a local toxics right-to-know law, called the Eugene charter amendment (http://www.ci.eugene.or.us/Firedept/Toxics/toxicsb.htm), requiring affected businesses to provide “materials balance accounting” (this means that their inputs and outputs of hazardous substances must be reported and must balance out).

Clary-Meuser Research Network (Mapcruzin) performs environmentally oriented GIS analysis and has developed WebMap tools such as an interactive TRI map. It also provides a list of reports, data, maps, and other information that has been taken off-line or made unavailable since September 11, 2001 (http://www.mapcruzin.com/right-to-know-issues.htm).