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Right-to-Know laws are powerful tools that help citizens protect our health and environment. Find tools and resources that help communities confront pollution, protect health, and insist on answers to which we are entitled.
Tools and Fact Sheets
Health and Toxics
Success Stories
Citizen Monitoring
Tools and Fact Sheets
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Target on Toxics -- Ten Steps To A Safer Community
Reducing toxic chemicals at the source is the solution to toxic pollution. For years, toxic pollution was business's secret, but community right-to-know laws disclose chemical hazards. Here are ten basic steps to reducing toxic chemicals in your community.
| Fact Sheet - December 2, 2003 |
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Twenty Key Questions for a Chemical Company Near You
Across the country, thousands of facilities that use extremely hazardous substances are required to tell workers and the public what could go wrong in a chemical release. As a result, some facilities are already reducing chemical dangers they impose on surrounding communities. Find twenty sample questions that every plant manager should be able to answer.
| Work Sheet - August 6, 2003 |
Health and Toxics
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Our Right-to-Know: Lead Paint
Federal law recognizes our right-to-know about lead paint in houses and apartments. Sellers and landlords must tell you about known lead paint hazards in property you might rent or buy. Lead paint was banned in 1978 because it is toxic, particularly to children, but remains in two thirds of U.S. housing.
| Fact Sheet - September 15, 2003 |
Success Stories
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Winning the Right-to-Know
The following excerpt from "Winning the Right to Know" by Caron Chess (1984) tells the story of the nation's first right-to-know law, which passed in Philadelphia in 1981.
| Commentary - December 12, 2004 |
Citizen Monitoring
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Bucket Brigades
Do-It-Yourself Bucket Samplers Help Communities Identify Air Pollution
| Fact Sheet - April 14, 2004 |
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