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MyEnvironment A public access gateway to environmental information. September 8, 2009. What’s Your Relationship with the Environment?. Full-time dedicated to the protecting the environment Part-time dedicated via volunteerism Environment-curious Agnostic, but concerned about your health.
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MyEnvironmentA public access gateway to environmental information September 8, 2009
What’s Your Relationship with the Environment? • Full-time dedicated to the protecting the environment • Part-time dedicated via volunteerism • Environment-curious • Agnostic, but concerned about your health
What are these facilities permitted to release into the land/air/water?
Are there Superfund sites/brownfields near my house or near my kid’s school?
What else is there to learn? epa.gov search EPA Digital Library EPA FAQs Chemical factsheets and more… EPA Chemical Data GSA’s usa.gov
A Use Case Washington Post article on May 3, 2009 on selenium and arsenic in toxic sludge dumped by power plants into waterways. Edison Mission Energy’s Homer City, PA plant was mentioned in the article.
A Use Case Search “Homer City” in MyEnvironment
A Use Case Search neighborhood for facilities permitted to release ‘Selenium’ and then look up chemical factsheets to understand potential health impacts
A Use Case Is “Homer City Generating Sta” the facility mentioned in the Post? Check out the aerial view or the KML feed in Google Earth
A Use Case Take it a step further for local activism purposes: Look up Toxic Release Inventory Reports up to 2007 on chemicals in question & check the characteristics of the surrounding population