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General Reading

• Rachel's Teachings, Rachel's Warnings

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Organizing

Miscellaneous

• Health Studies: What Can They Give You?
• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• How To Shut Down an Incinerator: A Tool Kit

Elections and Public Officials

• Hold Your State Responsible 
• User's Guide to Politicians *
• Divide and Conquer: The EPA's Strategy and What to Do About It
• Election Year Tools That Work For the Grassroots
• Building Relationships With Elected Officials
• Industry’s True Lies: The Politics Behind the Scientific Debate on Dioxin

Fundraising

• Funding at the Grassroots
• Grassroots Fundraising Plan *

Group Profiles

• Shintech, Convent, LA
• Blitzing the PTA: The Chemical Industry and TNRCC Lay Siege to Texas Moms
• Victory in the South Bronx: What It Took to Win *

Media Strategy

• Getting Your Message Across
• Organizing A Successful Action

Organizing

• Planning an Educational Community Event
• How   to Get Your Neighbors Involved
• Should Your Group Incorporate? 
• Organizing for the Long Haul  *
• How To Shut Down an Incinerator A Tool Kit 
• Experts: A User's Guide (Where to find them. How  to get them. How to pay for them.)
• Reaction
• Burnout *
• Research - "How much research is enough?" 
• Group Spirit...Things you can do to keep up members morale
• Building and Joining a Coalition
• Mobilizer or Organizer?
• Six Lessons from the Christian Coalition
• Why Organize?  
• Making That First Contact - Organizing 101 *
• Don't Play By The Polluters' Rules
• How Your Community Can Take Action
• Getting and Using Help
• Expect It -- Don't Neglect It
• Following the Money Trail
• Doorknocking and Recruitment
• Bringing In New Blood

Science

• Rachel's Teachings, Rachel's Warnings
• I think there's a Dump In My Backyard - What do I do Next?
• Relocation of communities means more than just packing one's bags and moving.
• Getting The Dirt on New Polluters

Women

• Activist Mothering: Fighting for the Next Generation
•  "We do not fear our enemies more than we love our children" Columbus, OH;
• Principles of Environmental Justice
• Reflections: Going, Going, Gone...  Huntington, WV

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Health & Environment

• Biological Warfare: Experimenting at Home
• The “War” Against Cancer…27 Years and Counting

Children's Health

• Protecting Baby’s First Food *
• Dioxin Update: Children are Most Vulnerable *
• Children and Chemicals *
• Children and Environmental Health

Contaminated Sites

• Landfill Gasses: Explosive and Toxic *
• Back to Where We Started: Trends in Cleaning Up Contaminated Sites
• Brownfields to Greenfields? The Jury is Still Out
• Risk of Birth Defects: Living Near Toxic Sites
• Environmental Testing - What To Look For & What It Means.

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Science & Technology

Dioxin

• The Real Issue is Profit, Not Science
• The Silent Spring of the 90's
• Protecting Baby’s First Food *
• EPA’s Latest Assessment of Dioxin: More Toxic Than Ever
• Dioxin Update: Children are Most Vulnerable *
• Risk Assessment and Dioxin
• Still Toxic After All These Years: An Update on the Toxicity of PCBs
• Dioxin in Our Food

Endocrine Disruptors

• The Truth About Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals *
• Endocrine Disruptors
• Can Some Environmental Chemicals Act Like Female Hormones?

Health Effects

• Gulf War Syndrome
• Understanding "Low-Level" Chemical Exposures
• The Rising Rates of Health Problems: Is There A Toxic Connection?

Health Studies

• Community Health Studies: What Can They Give You?
• Assessing Health Problems in Local Communities - What Do You Do?
• ATSDR:  Don't Ask…Don't Tell…Don't Pursue

Pollution

• Waste Incineration Creates Burning Problems
• Environment Up in Smoke
• Incineration of Contaminated Soils...A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing
• Looney Landfill Lore *
• Mislead Science: The Danger of Lead
• MTBE: Ozone Solution or a New Kind of Pollution?
• Nuclear Waste: No Solutions in Sight
• Pesticides: Rachel's Teachings, Rachel's Warnings
• Recycling: A Modern Day Success Story 
• Mixed Waste Composting: Good Idea or Quick Fix Solution?
• Sewage Sludge: A Dangerous Fertilizer *
• Drinking Water Filters: Do They Really Work?

Risk Assessment

• Replacing Risk Assessment: New Approaches for Decision Making
• Risk Assessment and Dioxin
• Quantitative Risk Assessment:  The Illusion of Safety

Science and Organizing

• Lessons We Have Learned *
• Science and the Grassroots Movement *
• The Use of Science In Government—Don’t Bother Me With The Facts

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Environmental Racism

• Principles of Environmental Justice *
• Victory in the South Bronx: What It Took to Win  *
• Profile: Shintech, Convent, LA

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Legal & Research

General:

• Getting a Lawyer 
• How To Deal With Trouble
• Out of Court Settlements
• What is a "Class Action"? *
• What is Pleading "Self Defense"?
• What is a "Contingent fee"?
• What is Medical Monitoring?
• Property Values  vs. Freedom of Speech

Legal Corner:

• Living near an abandoned factory *
• Can I sue a facility to get relocated?
• SLAPPs (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation)
• Multiple Chemical Sensitivity *
• Private Meetings
• Filing Suit *
• Should we sue as a group or Individual?
• Hold Your State Responsible

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Note: Some articles are FREE to the public. These articles are marked with an asterisk (*).