State, tribal, county and municipal environmental websites

[Fred Stoss <fstoss@acsu.buffalo.edu>]

Tabitha,

Your description is a beautiful example of the detailed data and
information that is being made available by SOME state agencies.

I just completed a article for a special issue of the journal,
_Toxicology,_ which is being devoted to digital inforamtion
resources for toxicology and environmental health. My article 
tackles resources provided at the subnational level: regions 
within the US, states and territories, tribal groups, counties 
and municipalities. It is scheduled for publication at the end 
of this year.

During this adventure, I scanned hundreds of state, county, and 
city sites and found some GREAT things and some not so great 
things. If I saw a trend it is that of some states really taking
the time to provide their citizens ready access to a lot of data 
and information.

I am creating a companion Web site that will list individual 
state URLs for departments of health, lead poisoning, radon,
emergency preparedness, cancer registries, fish consumption
advisories, occupational health, toxic release inventory, etc.

There is also a section of the paper that identifies major 
gateway sites that point to sources of these subnational 
resources, and a list of professional associations addressing
tribal, state, county, and municipal governments.

WHEN completed by December the URL for this subnational 
inventory of URLs (more than 1,000) will be:

http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/sel/environ/statagencies.html

It will be freely accessible. The site MIGHT be expanded.

Fred Stoss
University at Buffalo