Environmental Studies / Science: Government Resources

Mission is to protect human health and the environment.

Provides technical library services to EPA Region 8 staff, and to make environmental information and resources easily accessible to the public.

Northwestern Transportation Library has the largest collection of EIS's in the world, available through Interlibrary Loan.

Provides information about EISs prepared by federal agencies, as well as EPA's comments concerning the EISs.

Offers environmental information from EPA databases on air, chemicals, hazardous waste, Superfund, toxic releases, and water permits as well as facility information and risk management plans.

Formerly the General Accounting Office, this is the investigative arm of Congress. GAO evaluates the performance of federal programs and tracks the expenditures of those programs. GAO reports and resources are available from the link above and the following site.

Find status data for environmental treaties, treaty text and other related information.

Offers one stop shopping for over 6,000 full text, on line EPA documents.

Contains the latest information on laws written by Congress, as well as regulatory information guiding those laws.