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Where You Live
Main Features
- Gateway to local environmental information
- Zip Code and Interactive Map Searches
- Links to Resources: Healthy School Environments, Concerned Citizens Resources, etc.
Where You Live allow users to narrow their searches geographically.
Description
Search Your Community features a ZIP code search function accessing four EPA databases containing local environmental data; EPA Regional Offices has an interactive map with clickable links to EPA’s regional Web sites featuring headlines, latest news, as well as regional environmental programs; and State Environmental Agencies provides a gateway to state environmental and energy agency Web sites. Within the category Learn More About Your Community, links lead to sites that contain environmental information pertinent to a particular geographical area or community.
The EPA databases that are accessible through Search Your Community provide access to information about environmental activities that affect air, water, and land anywhere in the United States. Links to related laws and regulations pertaining to particular violations are also provided. Interactive maps of a search area feature the specific locations of EPA-regulated facilities. Searches can be conducted by Zip Code, city or region names, rivers, and states, or by way of an interactive map.
The links within Learn More About Your Community lead to environmental information relevant to communities. The feature Window to My Environment uses interactive maps and tools to answer popular questions about environmental conditions affecting air, land, and water within a search area and also shows what is being done locally to protect the environment. Other searches within Learn More About Your Community yield air quality indices and ozone maps (AIRNOW), information regarding toxic chemicals that are being used, manufactured, treated, transported, or released into the environment (Toxic Release Inventory) and information about individual Superfund sites (National Superfund Sites).
Highlights
- Environmental Emergencies: information on how to report chemical or oil spills.
- Environmental Violations: list of numbers to call to report violations and instructions on how to report violations.
- Concerned Citizens Resources: links to resources thought to be of most interest to citizens, i.e. Protecting Our Children, Acting Locally, Community Right to Know, etc.
- Tribal Links: links to information pertaining to tribal lands, tribal programs, and tribal offices.
- Healthy School Environment Resources: links to programs regulating school environments (facility operations, indoor air quality, waste management, etc.).