Environmental Health: Environmental Health Hazard Resources

Find resources on this page you can use to evaluate environmental health hazards, including resources specific to Wisconsin.

Wisconsin resources

• Environmental Public Health Tracking a program that tracks and analyzes environmental public health data in Wisconsin.
• Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources’ Remediation and Redevelopment Program a program that leads efforts to clean up and redevelop Wisconsin’s brownfields, which are abandoned commercial or industrial properties that may be contaminated.
• Wisconsin Remediation and Redevelopment Database a way to search for information on different contaminated land activities in Wisconsin.

Risk assessment

• Assessment of Chemical Exposure (ACE) training provides training in performing rapid epidemiological assessments after chemical releases.
• Environmental Protection Agency Envirofacts a way to get an assessment of your environment using your ZIP code.
• Environmental Protection Agency risk assessment provides information on what a risk assessment is and how to conduct one.
• Environmental Protection Agency’s Toxic Release Inventory Program gives information on toxic chemical releases and pollution prevention activities across the country, as reported by industrial and federal facilities.

Toxicology

• American College of Medical Toxicology includes a list of useful links for toxicological assessment and reference.
• ToxTutor a self-paced learning tutorial covering key principles of toxicology for users of the National Library of Medicine chemical and toxicology databases.

If you have more questions, email dhsenvhealth@dhs.wisconsin.gov.