Resources Sites

• Advanced Vehicles & Fuels (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)

• Agriculture Department (USDA)

• Carbon Footprint Tool: for Offices (EPA)

• Climate Change (EPA)

• ECOTOX (EPA)
  ECOTOXicology database (ECOTOX) is a source for locating single chemical toxicity data for aquatic life, terrestrial plants and wildlife. Search technical reports and peer-reviewed literature.

• Envirofacts
  Provides information on several topics: Waste, water, toxics, air, radiation, land, and maps. Choose the geographic area by entering a specific zip code, city and state, or county and state.
  • EnviroMapper for EnviroFacts

• Energy.gov (Department of Energy)
  Website provides information, research, programs, and policies about all phases of the environment and energy.

• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  Information about the agency's programs and publications.

• Fish and Wildlife Service
  • Endangered Species Program
  • National Wetlands Inventory

• Household Emissions Calculator (EPA)

• National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII)
  A collaborative program of federal government agencies, academic institutions and others to provide data and information on the nation's biological resources.

• National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
  NESDIS provides timely access to global environmental data from satellites.

• National Invasive Species Information Center (NISIC) (USDA)
  A gateway to invasive species information; covering Federal, State, local, and international sources.

• Science Accelerator
  Search scientific and technical reports and articles. Includes full text of most of the reports.

• Scorecard
  Site offers information on many type of pollutions and hazards. Includes information from the U.S. EPA Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) and from other sources. Has a zip code lookup feature. Provides scorecards for the nation, states, and counties.

• Superfund Information
  Information by and about Superfund, a program created in 1980 by CERCLA, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act. Provides access to the CERCLIS database and the CERCLIS Archive database (information on sites that have been removed from the CERCLIS inventory).
  • National Priorities List (NPL)
    Lists and provides descriptions of all the Superfund sites by state
  • Delaware Superfund Sites (EPA Region 3)

• USDA Economics, Statistics and Market Information System (ESMIS)
  The system contains nearly 2500 reports and datasets. It is a collaborative project between Albert R. Mann Library at Cornell University and several agencies of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

• Water Resources of the United States (U.S.G.S.)

Policy

• Energy & Environment (Whitehouse: Presidential Issues)

• Environment & Energy Daily
  Covers the policy, budget and appropriations developments for the entire range of environment, energy and natural resource issues facing Congress. Some services are for subscribers only.

• League of Conservation Voters
  A bipartisan political organization interested in environmental issues. National Environmental Scorecards -- rate how each member of Congress voted on environmental bills.

• National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE)
  A nonprofit organization devoted to providing scientific information. Includes full-text of Congressional Research Service reports related to the environment, agriculture, and natural resources.

Statistics

• Agricultural Statistics (National Agicultural Statistics Service)
  An annual reference source for agricultural production, supplies, consumption, facilities, costs, and returns. The section "Consumption and Family Living" includes data spending on programs such as WIC and School Lunch.

• Economic Research Service (USDA)

• Energy Information Administration (EIA)
  Agency in the Energy Department that produces statistical data and analysis.

• Environmental Statistics (National Agicultural Statistics Service)

• National Agicultural Statistics Service (NASS)

• Pesticide Data Program (PDP) (Agricultural Marketing Service)

• Quick Stats (National Agicultural Statistics Service)
  National, state, and county data on farms, crops, and agricultural products.

• Renewable Resource Data Center (RReDC) (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)

• State and U.S. Historical Data (Energy Information Administration)
  Data on energy production, consumption, energy prices, greenhouse gas emissions, heating and cooling degree-days and much more.

More Resources

• Science.gov
• Environment, Energy, and Agriculture: USA.gov
• The Environment: A Guide to Internet Resources (UD Library)
• Sustainability: Basic Resources for Research (UD Library)
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