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Assessment Resources by Media

Air	Soil	Water

Air Resources

American Lung Association

• State of the Air 2004 Report - How does your community rate?

Environmental Protection Agency

• Envirofacts: EPA's Data Warehouse - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) created the Envirofacts Warehouse to provide the public with direct access to the wealth of information contained in its databases. The Envirofacts Warehouse allows you to retrieve environmental information from EPA databases on Air, Chemicals, Facility Information, Grants/Funding, Hazardous Waste, Risk Management Plans, Superfund, Toxic Releases, and Water Permits, Drinking Water, Drinking Water Contaminant Occurrence, and Drinking Water Microbial and Disinfection Byproduct Information
• AIRNOW - The goals of the US EPA's AIRNOW website are t
  1. provide real-time air pollution data in an understandable, visual format
  2. provide information about the public health and environmental effects of air pollution
  3. provide the public with information about ways in which they can protect their health, and actions they can take to reduce pollution.

This website currently focuses on ground-level ozone (smog). Future plans for this website are to expand the geographic coverage of the current ozone maps and to include other pollutants. The Ozone Mapping Project is part of EPA's Environmental Monitoring for Public Access and Community Tracking (EMPACT) initiative - a new approach to providing timely environmental information to communities.