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Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) provides this webpage entitled, Environment and Health Program. The webpage addresses an array of environmental health issues relevant to health professionals in the United States and around the globe. These issues include climate change, air pollution, and...

This page is a course overview for Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) course 11.122, Environment and Society.  The course examines the effects of industrialization on the environment and society and the regulatory response to these changes. Projects produced by students in the course,...

Supported by the Environmental Protection Agency and the University of Maryland Sea Grant College, the Region 3 Environmental Finance Center promotes alternative and innovative ways to manage the cost of environmental activities. It provides training, technical assistance, and program planning and...

This 1-page resource, from the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center, provides a problem-based activity on risk assessment of environmental health issues. In the activity, students look at how people pass diseases and germs through their hands. During this classroom activity, students...

This 8-page activity, from the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center, has students learn about environmental justice by examining a case study. The case study explores the decline of a loca l neighborhood and how the decline might represent an environmental injustice caused by...

This 5-page document, from the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center, provides a classroom activity where students build knowledge and skills about releases of polluting materials into the environment. Students apply knowledge and skills in a community context. Five scenarios are...

During this 2-page activity, from the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center, students learn about releases of pollutants into the environment and how to apply knowledge and skills in a community context. The lesson consists of four steps including research on what triggers asthma,...

During this 5-page activity, from the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center, students learn about the dangers of releasing polluting materials into the environment by studying what to do with old computers. The activity requires students to research hazards resulting from obsolete...

This web page offers a brief summary of the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) as it concerns the Environmental Protection Agency's regulation of pesticides. Links to both the EPA's archive of materials regarding the FQPA and a summary of the FQPA are provided.  In addition, the web page includes a...

During this 5-page activity, from the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center, students study the release of polluting materials into the environment and apply this knowledge in a community context. Students examine fluorescent lights by analyzing data on the amount of mercury released...