Resources

• An analysis of cancer incidence trends from 2015-2050
• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Healthy People 2030 goal of promoting healthier environments to improve health
• A National Institute for Environmental Health Science’s Workshop addressing racism through the lens of environmental justice
• The World Health Organization’s Asturias Pledge

• A comprehensive guide that provides resources to cancer coalitions: Nine Habits of Successful Comprehensive Cancer Control Coalitions
• A National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD) webinar discussing the importance of partnerships for designing and implementing risk reduction strategies for environmental cancers
• A brief released after the above-mentioned webinar that summarizes key lessons for cancer coalitions when engaging in partnerships

• State-level environmental health tracking data includes data and information on environments and hazards, health effects, and population health. A portal to this information is through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website
• EJScreen – a mapping and screening tool that reveals patterns in environmental inequalities related to where people of color and/or low-income populations reside
  • Videos and informational guides to assist with the EJScreen mapping tool
• AirTox Screening Assessment – a mapping tool that includes emissions, ambient concentrations, and exposure estimates
  • Instructional video for the AirTox Screening tool
• The Environmental Working Group’s Tap Water Database – includes information about drinking water contamination, and its known impacts on human health 
  • Instructional video for the EWG Tap Water database tool
• Clearya – a data tool for locating cancer-causing chemicals and other toxins that are found in personal care, cosmetics, baby products and cleaning products
  • Instructional video on using the Clearya tool
• The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics developed the Red List of Chemicals of Concern in Cosmetics to serve as a resource and tool to help consumer, brands, companies, and retailers reduce their use of toxic chemicals in the beauty and personal care products
• Environmental Working Group’s Skin Deep Database – educates the public about the ingredients in their cosmetics and personal care products
  • Instructional guide on using the Skin Deep tool

• Environmental epidemiologists
• Environmental health researchers/scientists
• Industrial Hygienists
• Occupational medicine physicians
• Toxicologists

• American Industrial Hygiene Association
• Associations of Community Health Centers and Rural Health Clinics
• Centers of Health Equity
• Community-based organizations and health improvement partnerships
• Cooperative extension offices
• County or state health practitioner societies
• Faith-based organizations
• Office of Rural Health
• Schools of public health
• Society of Toxicology

• Clinicians and other health communication experts
• Community residents/leaders
• Environmental advocacy groups focused on the array of environmental health challenges
• Fish and wildlife managers
• Parks and environmental committees that might be part of a local government council
• State-based environmental health tracking experts

• The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer list of substances evaluated and classifications regarding ability to cause cancer in humans. https://monographs.iarc.who.int/agents-classified-by-the-iarc/ 
  • List of classifications by cancer site: https://monographs.iarc.who.int/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Classifications_by_cancer_site.pdf 
• The U.S. National Toxicology Program’s Report on Carcinogens – a cumulative report that lists substances that are known or reasonably anticipated to cause cancer in humans: https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/whatwestudy/assessments/cancer/roc 
  • A searchable list of carcinogen classifications. https://monographs.iarc.who.int/list-of-classifications 
• Examples of studies of links between cancer and environmental/occupational exposures
  • Outdoor air pollution and childhood leukemia. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31017485/ 
  • Hair dye and chemical straightener use and breast cancer risk. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31797377/ 
  • Arsenic in drinking water and bladder cancer risk. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27140955/ 
  • Pancreatic cancer and living near waste sites containing hazardous organic chemicals. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35876351/ 
  • Unconventional oil and gas development exposure and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35975995/ 
  • Diesel exhaust and bladder cancer risk. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31864026/ 
• Recent literature reviews of cancer risks associated with environmental and occupational exposures as queried through PubMed:
  • Air pollution: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=cancer+risk%5BTitle%2FAbstract%5D+AND+air+pollution+%5BTitle%2FAbstract%5D&filter=datesearch.y_5 
  • Endocrine disrupting chemicals: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=endocrine+disrupting+chemicals+%5BAbstract%5D+AND+and+cancer+%5BTitle%2FAbstract%5D&filter=datesearch.y_5 
  • Flame retardants: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=endocrine+disrupting+chemicals+%5BAbstract%5D+AND+and+cancer+%5BTitle%2FAbstract%5D&filter=datesearch.y_5 
  • Occupation and cancers: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=occupation+%5Btitle%2Fabstract%5D+and+cancer+%5Btitle%2Fabstract%5D&filter=datesearch.y_5 
  • Pesticides: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=cancer+risk%5BTitle%2FAbstract%5D+AND+pesticides%5BTitle%2FAbstract%5D&sort=&filter=datesearch.y_5&filter=datesearch.y_5 
  • PFAS: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=PFAS+%5BAbstract%5D+AND+cancer+%5BTitle%2FAbstract%5D&filter=datesearch.y_5 
  • Select heavy metals: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=cadmium%20and%20arsenic%20and%20chromium%20and%20cancer&filter=datesearch.y_5&page=2 
  • Water contamination: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=water+contamination+and+cancer+%5BTitle%2FAbstract%5D&filter=datesearch.y_5 
  • Childhood cancer and pesticides: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=childhood+cancer+and+pesticides&filter=datesearch.y_5 
  • Childhood cancer and air pollution: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=childhood+cancer+and+air+pollution&filter=datesearch.y_5 

Recent Cancer and the Environment Symposia 

• Columbia University School of Public Health/Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia (2023) – Cancer and the Environment 
• Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (2022) – Cancer and Environment Forum
• Lowell Center for Sustainable Production (2019) – Cancer and Environment Symposium

Research literature and articles related to financial conflicts in science

• Baur X, Soskolne CL, Bero LA. How can the integrity of occupational and environmental health research be maintained in the presence of conflicting interests? Environ Health. 2019 Nov 4;18(1):93. doi: 10.1186/s12940-019-0527-x. 
• Begley S. Insight: Science for hire – Trial over plastic exposes disclosure deficit. Reuters. July 18, 2015.
• Brandt AM. Inventing conflicts of interest: a history of tobacco industry tactics. Am J Public Health. 2012 Jan;102(1):63-71. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300292.
• Gottesfeld P. Lead Industry Influence in the 21st Century: An Old Playbook for a “Modern Metal”. Am J Public Health. 2022 Sep;112(S7):S723-S729. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2022.306960. 
• McHenry LB. The Monsanto Papers: Poisoning the scientific well. Int J Risk Saf Med. 2018;29(3-4):193-205. doi: 10.3233/JRS-180028. PMID: 29843257.
• Michaels D. Doubt is Their Product: How Industry’s Assault on Science Threatens Your Health. Oxford University Press: New York. 2008.
• Michaels D. The Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception. Oxford University Press: New York. 2020.
• Union of Concerned Scientists. How Georgia-Pacific Knowingly Published Fake Science on the Safety of Asbestos. October 10, 2017.
• Rohr JR. The Atrazine Saga and its Importance to the Future of Toxicology, Science, and Environmental and Human Health. Environ Toxicol Chem. 2021 Jun;40(6):1544-1558. doi: 10.1002/etc.5037. Epub 2021 May 17. PMID: 33999476.

Additional literature cited:

• Cohn BA, Wolff MS, Cirillo PM, Sholtz RI. DDT and breast cancer in young women: new data on the significance of age at exposure. Environ Health Perspect. 2007 Oct;115(10):1406-14. doi: 10.1289/ehp.10260. PMID: 17938728; PMCID: PMC2022666.
• Goodson WH 3rd, Lowe L, Carpenter DO, et al. Assessing the carcinogenic potential of low-dose exposures to chemical mixtures in the environment: the challenge ahead. Carcinogenesis. 2015 Jun;36 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):S254-96. doi: 10.1093/carcin/bgv039. Erratum in: Carcinogenesis. 2016 Mar;37(3):344. 
• Terry MB, Michels KB, Brody JG, et al. Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Program (BCERP). Environmental exposures during windows of susceptibility for breast cancer: a framework for prevention research. Breast Cancer Res. 2019 Aug 20;21(1):96. doi: 10.1186/s13058-019-1168-2. 
• President’s Cancer Panel. Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What we can do now. Report on reducing environmental cancer risk. 2008-2009 Annual Report. 2010. 
• Smith MT, Guyton KZ, Gibbons CF, et al. Key Characteristics of Carcinogens as a Basis for Organizing Data on Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis. Environ Health Perspect. 2016 Jun;124(6):713-21. doi: 10.1289/ehp.1509912.
• Whitehead TP, Metayer C, Wiemels JL, et al. Childhood Leukemia and Primary Prevention. Curr Probl Pediatr Adolesc Health Care. 2016 Oct;46(10):317-352. doi: 10.1016/j.cppeds.2016.08.004. 

Consumer Products

• Dodson RE, Boronow KE, Susmann H, et al. Consumer behavior and exposure to parabens, bisphenols, triclosan, dichlorophenols, and benzophenone-3: Results from a crowdsourced biomonitoring study. Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2020 Sep;230:113624. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2020.113624. 
• Dodson RE, Setzer RW, Spengler JD, et al.  Influence of living in the same home on biomonitored levels of consumer product chemicals. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2022 Nov;32(6):885-891. doi: 10.1038/s41370-021-00368-8. 
• Rodgers KM, Bennett D, Moran R, et al. Do flame retardant concentrations change in dust after older upholstered furniture is replaced? Environ Int. 2021 Aug;153:106513. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2021.106513. 

Health Professional Environmental Exposure Histories

• Gehle KS, Crawford JL, Hatcher MT. Integrating environmental health into medical education. Am J Prev Med. 2011 Oct;41(4 Suppl 3):S296-301. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2011.06.007. PMID: 21961679.
• Agency for Toxics Substances and Disease Registry’s case study in Environmental Medicine: Taking an Exposure History
• Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments: Educational trainings and resources are available to support healthcare provider education interventions 
• Pediatric Environmental Health Tool kit (developed by University of California San Francisco. Endorsed by: American Academy of Pediatrics, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Clinics. Environmental health toolkits for pediatricians) 

Worker Training Materials

• Putting Breast Cancer Out of Work training, developed by the GreenBlue Alliance: https://www.chemhat.org/en/uswbga-program

Healthy Building Products 

• Cancer and Environment Network of Southwestern Pennsylvania 
  • Fact sheet on cancer risks from products in homes: https://censwpa.org/wp-content/uploads/CENSWPA_Home-Environment.pdf 
• Health Care without Harm’s Home Free resource to support finding health building products and materials: https://homefree.healthybuilding.net/

Built environment design and city planning 

• Wray AJD, Minaker LM. Is cancer prevention influenced by the built environment? A multidisciplinary scoping review. Cancer. 2019 Oct 1;125(19):3299-3311. doi: 10.1002/cncr.32376. Epub 2019 Jul 9. PMID: 31287585.
• Koohsari MJ, Kakaya T, McCormack GR, et al. Built environment design and cancer prevention through the lens of inequality. Cities. 2021;119:103385. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2021.103385.

Green chemistry education resources

• Green chemistry for K-12 teaching: https://ecology.wa.gov/Waste-Toxics/Reducing-toxic-chemicals/Green-chemistry/Green-chemistry-for-K-12-classroom; https://www.dec.ny.gov/education/77750.html; & https://greenchemistry.yale.edu/education/high-school/teachers 
• Beyond Benign’s green chemistry resources for K-12 educators: https://www.beyondbenign.org/k12/  

Artificial turf

• Article about artificial turf and its potential connection to glioblastoma: https://greenchemistry.yale.edu/education/high-school/teachers 
• Information on the EU restricting the use of synthetic turf: https://echa.europa.eu/hot-topics/granules-mulches-on-pitches-playgrounds 
• A review of synthetic turf policies: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667010022001767

 Firefighters:

• Daniels RD, Bertke S, Dahm MM, et al. Exposure-response relationships for select cancer and non-cancer health outcomes in a cohort of U.S. firefighters from San Francisco, Chicago and Philadelphia (1950-2009). Occup Environ Med. 2015 Oct;72(10):699-706. doi: 10.1136/oemed-2014-102671. 
• Tsai RJ, Luckhaupt SE, Schumacher P, et al. Risk of cancer among firefighters in California, 1988-2007. Am J Ind Med. 2015 Jul;58(7):715-29. doi: 10.1002/ajim.22466. 
• Horn GP, Fent KW, Kerber S, et al. Hierarchy of contamination control in the fire service: Review of exposure control options to reduce cancer risk. J Occup Environ Hyg. 2022 Sep;19(9):538-557. doi: 10.1080/15459624.2022.2100406. 

Professional wet cleaning as an alternative to dry cleaning:

• Information over perchloroethylene being classified as carcinogenic: https://monographs.iarc.who.int/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/mono106-002.pdf 
• Onasch J, Jacobs M, Biddle E. From Perchloroethylene dry cleaning to professional wet cleaning: making the health and business case for reducing toxics. J Environ Health. 2017;79(6): E1-E7. 
• The Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Institute has developed a range of materials such to replace perchloroethylene for dry cleaners: https://www.turi.org/publications/alternatives-assessment-for-perchloroethylene-for-the-dry-cleaning-industry/ 
• Exploration of adopting policies that incentive the use of professional wet cleaning:  https://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/press_releases/14-009pr.shtml; https://www.phila.gov/documents/dry-cleaning-regulations/; & https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/phase-out-perchloroethylene-dry-cleaning-process/about 

Banning pesticides in public spaces and replacing with Integrated Pest Management Practices 

• Chen M, Chang CH, Tao L, et al. Residential Exposure to Pesticide During Childhood and Childhood Cancers: A Meta-Analysis. Pediatrics. 2015 Oct;136(4):719-29. doi: 10.1542/peds.2015-0006. 
• Van Maele-Fabry G, Gamet-Payrastre L, Lison D. Household exposure to pesticides and risk of leukemia in children and adolescents: Updated systematic review and meta-analysis. Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2019 Jan;222(1):49-67. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2018.08.004. 
• U.S. EPA’s information on Integrated Pest Management .https://www.epa.gov/ipm/introduction-integrated-pest-management 
• Press release from IARC on glyphosate classification as “probably” carcinogenic https://www.iarc.who.int/featured-news/media-centre-iarc-news-glyphosate/ 
• Policies directing the use of IPM as substitutes for conventional pesticides:
  • Massachusetts – https://www.maasthma.org/toolkit/ipm
  • San Francisco – https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/san_francisco/latest/sf_environment/0-0-0-160; https://content.civicplus.com/api/assets/d8bf14cf-690c-40c0-973c-39cde3f0558d?cache=1800; 
  • Santa Fe – https://www.beyondpesticides.org/assets/media/documents/lawn/activist/CITY%20OF%20SANTA%20FE.pdf 

State-level policies restricting chemicals in consumer products

• Compendium of state chemicals policies: https://www.saferstates.org/bill-tracker/ 

Air pollution policies

• IARC publication on the carcinogenicity of air pollution: https://publications.iarc.fr/Book-And-Report-Series/Iarc-Monographs-On-The-Identification-Of-Carcinogenic-Hazards-To-Humans/Outdoor-Air-Pollution-2015 
• Near traffic air pollution exposures is also a risk factor for childhood cancers: 
  • Boothe VL, Boehmer TK, Wendel AM, et al. Residential traffic exposure and childhood leukemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Am J Prev Med. 2014 Apr;46(4):413-22. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2013.11.004. 
  • Heck JE, Wu J, Lombardi C, et al. Childhood cancer and traffic-related air pollution exposure in pregnancy and early life. Environ Health Perspect. 2013 Nov-Dec;121(11-12):1385-91. doi: 10.1289/ehp.1306761. 
  • Filippini T, Hatch EE, Rothman KJ, et al. Association between Outdoor Air Pollution and Childhood Leukemia: A Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-Analysis. Environ Health Perspect. 2019 Apr;127(4):46002. doi: 10.1289/EHP4381. 
• Studies suggesting that exposure to air pollution is associated with poorer cancer survival and treatment complications among childhood cancer patients:
  • Eckel SP, Cockburn M, Shu YH, et al. Air pollution affects lung cancer survival. Thorax. 2016 Oct;71(10):891-8. doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2015-207927. 
  • McKeon TP, Anil Vachani, Penning TM, et al. Air pollution and lung cancer survival in Pennsylvania. Lung Cancer. 2022 Aug;170:65-73. doi: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2022.06.004. 
  • Ou JY, Hanson HA, Ramsay JM, Leiser CL, Zhang Y, VanDerslice JA, Pope CA 3rd, Kirchhoff AC. Fine Particulate Matter and Respiratory Healthcare Encounters among Survivors of Childhood Cancers. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019 Mar 26;16(6):1081. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16061081. 
• Evidence-based interventions to support air pollution exposure reductions:
  • Turner MC, Andersen ZJ, Baccarelli A, et al. Outdoor air pollution and cancer: An overview of the current evidence and public health recommendations. CA Cancer J Clin. 2020 Aug 25:10.3322/caac.21632. doi: 10.3322/caac.21632. 

Other literature cited (in alphabetical order by author):

• Costas K, Knorr RS, Condon SK. A case-control study of childhood leukemia in Woburn, Massachusetts: the relationship between leukemia incidence and exposure to public drinking water. Sci Total Environ. 2002 Dec 2;300(1-3):23-35. doi: 10.1016/s0048-9697(02)00169-9. 
• Dairkee SH, Moore DH, Luciani MG, et al. Reduction of daily-use parabens and phthalates reverses accumulation of cancer-associated phenotypes within disease-free breast tissue of study subjects. Chemosphere. 2023 May;322:138014. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.138014. 
• Dumitrascu MC, Mares C, Petca RC, et al. Carcinogenic effects of bisphenol A in breast and ovarian cancers. Oncol Lett. 2020 Dec;20(6):282. doi: 10.3892/ol.2020.12145. 
• Siddique S, Zhang G, Coleman K, et al. Investigation of the migration of bisphenols from baby bottles and sippy cups. Curr Res Food Sci. 2021 Sep 3;4:619-626. doi: 10.1016/j.crfs.2021.08.006. 
• Rochester JR, Bolden AL. Bisphenol S and F: A Systematic Review and Comparison of the Hormonal Activity of Bisphenol A Substitutes. Environ Health Perspect. 2015 Jul;123(7):643-50. doi: 10.1289/ehp.1408989

• A novel report which demonstrated a direct correlation between the placement of toxic waste facilities and communities of poverty and/or color: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1310/ML13109A339.pdf 
• An updated Toxic Wastes and Racism guide that explore progress made in environmental racism over the last 20 years: https://ejnet.org/files/ej/twart-light.pdf 
• Legislation addressing environmental justice, climate change, clean energy, and legacy pollution: https://www.whitehouse.gov/environmentaljustice/justice40/ 
• Other landmark federal investments in environmental justice: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/17/fact-sheet-inflation-reduction-act-advances-environmental-justice/ & https://www.whitehouse.gov/american-rescue-plan/ 
• Informational video on environmental justice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dREtXUij6_c 
• A recent study that examined environmental hazards associated with historically redlined neighborhoods in Detroit, Michigan: 
  • Shkembi A, Smith LM, Neitzel RL. Linking environmental injustices in Detroit, MI to institutional racial segregation through historical federal redlining. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2022 Dec 21. doi: 10.1038/s41370-022-00512-y. 
• A study that examines the cancer impacts of uranium mining in Navajo men: 
  • Gilliland FD, Hunt WC, Pardilla M, Key CR. Uranium mining and lung cancer among Navajo men in New Mexico and Arizona, 1969 to 1993. J Occup Environ Med. 2000 Mar;42(3):278-83. doi: 10.1097/00043764-200003000-00008. PMID: 10738707.
• Information from the U.S. EPA about contamination from uranium mines and how it is being addressed: https://www.epa.gov/navajo-nation-uranium-cleanup/abandoned-mines-cleanup 
• A study examining disparities in cancer risk based on income and race in Cancer Alley, Louisiana: 
  • James W, Jia C, Kedia S. Uneven magnitude of disparities in cancer risks from air toxics. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2012 Dec 3;9(12):4365-85. doi: 10.3390/ijerph9124365. 
• An ProPublica article that discusses Black residents in southeastern Louisiana and their disproportionate cancer rates from industrial air pollution: https://www.propublica.org/article/cancer-alley-louisiana-epa-environmental-racism 
• A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tool used to explore data on environmental justice populations, including environmental exposures, community characteristics, and health burdens: https://ephtracking.cdc.gov/Applications/ejdashboard/ 
• Climate and Environmental Justice Screening Tool (CEJST) – A geospatial mapping tool that identifies areas across the nation where communities are faced with environmental justice burdens: https://screeningtool.geoplatform.gov/en/#3/35.16/-103.07 
  • Instructional video on using the CEJST mapping tool: https://player.vimeo.com/video/702214448?h=d67ec24458&app_id=122963 
  • Methodology and detailed categories of burden for the CEJST mapping tool: https://screeningtool.geoplatform.gov/en/methodology#3/33.47/-97.5 
• Pollution Prevention EJ Facility Mapping Tool: https://www.epa.gov/p2/p2-ej-facility-mapping-tool 
  • Instructional video for the P2 EJ Facility Mapping Tool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyRUzFYvevU 
• A list of region-specific environmental justice activities:  https://www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice/environmental-justice-your-community 
• A report on official state and federal environmental justice efforts: https://www.ncsl.org/environment-and-natural-resources/state-and-federal-environmental-justice-efforts#state 

• A report on the 2019 Cancer and Environment Symposium in Southwestern Pennsylvania: https://www.sehn.org/sehn/2019/4/18/cancer-and-the-environment-a-symposium-report-by-ted-schettler 
• A network based in Southwestern Pennsylvania focused on environmental cancer risk reduction: https://censwpa.org/ 
• A comprehensive action plan centered around primary prevention, science, community expertise, and policy initiatives to create systemic change to reduce toxic exposures and prevent breast cancer: https://www.bcpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Paths-to-Prevention-California-Breast-Cancer-Primary-Prevention-Plan_September-2020.pdf

• 1948 Donora smog disaster — the event that helped catalyze modern clean air policy
• Cancer and Environment Network of Southwestern Pennsylvania 
  • Hub model
  • Action Pods
  • Environmental Summit 
  • Science Companion 
  • Regional cancer incidence 
• SWPA Partner and Resource Reference 
  • Allegheny County Health Department 
  • ACHD Hourly Air Quality Data 
  • AirNow
  • Allegheny County Clean Air Now 
  • The Breathe Project 
  • Bureau of Air Quality 
  • Cancer Bridges 
  • Center for Coalfield Justice 
  • The Create Lab
    • Breathe Cam 
  • Earthworks 
  • Environmental Health Project
    • EHP Health Professional Toolkit
  • Eyes on Air
  • FracTracker Alliance   
  • Group Against Smog and Pollution
    • Fenceline Monitoring Partnerships
  • Mountain Watershed Association 
  • Office of Oil and Gas Management
  • PennEnvironment
  • Pennsylvania Department of Health
  • Pennsylvania Interfaith Power and Light
  • Smell PGH
  • Three Rivers Waterkeeper
  • Women for a Healthy Environment
    • State of Environmental Health in Southwestern Pennsylvania Schools report

• Cancer Prevention Priorities
  • International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP) — entities that have identified dozens of environmental and occupational agents that cause or contribute to cancer
  • Study showing that smoking alone does not explain the overall disproportionate rates of environmentally sensitive cancers 
    • Malaisé, Y., Lencina, C., Cartier, C. et al. Perinatal oral exposure to low doses of bisphenol A, S or F impairs immune functions at intestinal and systemic levels in female offspring mice. Environ Health 19, 93 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12940-020-00614-w 
• Air Toxics from Industrial Sources 
  • AirTox Screening Assessment – a mapping tool that includes emissions, ambient concentrations, and exposure estimates
  • PennEnvironment’s Toxic Ten analysis — tracks the highest-emitting facilities and the specific carcinogens they release
  • Study documenting that regions with substantial industrial air pollution would continue to experience elevated lung cancer risk due to persistent exposure to carcinogenic air toxics
    • Myers, D., Mainali, S., Afrin, S. et al. Air pollution and lung cancer: an investigation of county-level residual incidence rates with smoking eliminated. Environ Health 25, 23 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12940-026-01277-9 
• Unconventional Gas Development 
  • Study evaluating the carcinogenicity of multiple air and water pollutants and the impact on childhood cancer risk 
    • Elise G. Elliott, Pauline Trinh, Xiaomei Ma, et al. Unconventional oil and gas development and risk of childhood leukemia: Assessing the evidence. Science of The Total Environment, Volume 576, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.10.072.
  • Study showing that increasing distances between emission sources and occupied spaces can meaningfully reduce exposure and associated cancer risk.
    • Clark CJ, Johnson NP, Soriano M Jr. et al. Unconventional Oil and Gas Development Exposure and Risk of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Case-Control Study in Pennsylvania, 2009-2017. Environ Health Perspect. 2022 Aug;130(8):87001. doi: 10.1289/EHP11092. Epub 2022 Aug 17. PMID: 35975995; PMCID: PMC9383266. 
  • Robinson Township v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision that re-affirmed municipalities’ authority to use zoning to regulate oil and gas development in order to protect public health and welfare
• Radon
  • PA DEP — Radon in the Home
• Drinking Water Contamination 
  • PFAS in Pennsylvania 
  • PFAS and Your Health 
  • Study linking PFAS exposure to kidney, liver, and testicular cancers 
    • Seyyedsalehi MS, Boffetta P. Per- and Poly-fluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Exposure and Risk of Kidney, Liver, and Testicular Cancers: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Med Lav. 2023;114(5):e2023040. Published 2023 Oct 24. doi:10.23749/mdl.v114i5.15065 
  • Analysis showing elevated cancer risk associated with drinking water disinfection byproducts
    • Evans, Sydney et al. Analysis of Cumulative Cancer Risk Associated with Disinfection Byproducts in United States Drinking Water. International journal of environmental research and public health vol. 17,6 2149. 24 Mar. 2020, doi:10.3390/ijerph17062149 
• Occupational Exposures
  •  NIOSH Total Worker Health
• Pesticides
  • Childhood cancers associated with residential pesticide exposure
  • Occupational cancer risk among workers exposed to agricultural pesticides
  • Integrated Pest Management
  • Pennsylvania School Integrated Pest Management Act
• Environmental Justice 
  • PA DEP’s Office of Environmental Justice
  • 2026 Pennsylvania Environmental Justice Policy