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MyEnvironment A public access gateway to environmental information

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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MyEnvironment A public access gateway to environmental information

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  1. MyEnvironmentA public access gateway to environmental information September 8, 2009

  2. 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

  3. www.epa.gov/myenvironment

  4. The Map – Who are the emitters in my neighborhood?

  5. What are these facilities permitted to release into the land/air/water?

  6. Do they have a history of violations?

  7. Who lives in this area besides me?

  8. Air quality today in my neighborhood/region?

  9. Health indicators in my area?

  10. Water quality in my backyard?

  11. Are there Superfund sites/brownfields near my house or near my kid’s school?

  12. 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

  13. 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.

  14. A Use Case Search “Homer City” in MyEnvironment

  15. A Use Case Search neighborhood for facilities permitted to release ‘Selenium’ and then look up chemical factsheets to understand potential health impacts

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. Taking the info to other platforms

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