Building Lead-Free Communities: Selected Web Resources

Frederick W. Stoss
Arts & Sciences Libraries
University at Buffalo
State University of New York

Building Lead-Free Communities , is a featured article written by Frederick W. Stoss in the Building Community column edited by Kathleen de la Pe a McCook and appears in the Summer 2005 issue of Reference & User Services Quarterly vol. 44, no. 4, p. 17-23. This companion site is created to maintain an active archive of all Web-based resources inventoried in that article, and to list additional pertinent Web resources on Childhood Lead Poisoning as they become available.
Sources of Local Government Agency Information
U.S Federal Government Sources of Lead Information
New York State Lead Resources
Monroe County Lead Resources
City of Rochester Lead Resources
Other Cities’ Stories
Selected Full-text Online Publications and NGO, corporate, and other institutional Websites

Sources of Local Government Agency Information

Representative List of Print Directory Resources
Carroll Publishing, Washington, DC
Carroll’s County Directory
Carroll’s Federal Directory
Carroll’s Federal Regional Directory
Carroll’s State Directory
Carroll’s Municipal Directory

Gale Research, Detroit, MI
Cities of the United States Encyclopedia of Associations, Regional, State, and Local Organizations

Leadership Directories, Washington, DC
Federal Regional Yellow Book
Federal Yellow Book
Municipal Yellow Book
State Yellow Book

Representative List of Online Government Directory Sources
National Center for Environmental Health—Links: Lead Federal, Non-Federal, State and Local (CDC)

GovLinks http://www.governing.com/local.htm

Library of Congress

CDC Public Health Information Network

Official City Sites

Piper Resources State Web Locator

Public Technology, Inc. (PTI)

WWW Virtual Library: Law

U.S Federal Government Sources of Lead Information
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)/National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH)/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
Case Studies in Environmental Medicine—Lead Toxicity

Childhood Blood Lead Screening

Public Health Statement for Lead

ToxFAQs™ for Lead

Toxicological Profile for Lead

CDC A-Z: Lead

CDC Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazards Control

Community Information and Outreach Materials

The Lead-Based Paint Disclosure Rule

Reference Library—Residential Lead Desktop Reference [This information is available on the "Residential Lead Desktop Reference" CD-ROM by calling 1-800-424-LEAD]

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Protect Your Child from Lead Poisoning

FAQ—Lead Poisoning

Information Sources

Lead in the Environment

Lead In Your Home: A Parent's Reference Guide

Office of Environmental Justice (resource for community-based grants)

National Lead Information Center [You can order materials or speak to an information specialist by contacting 1-800-424-LEAD (5323)]
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Healthy People 2010, Chapter 8, Environmental Health>

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)

National Institutes of Health
MEDLINEPlus (health information gateway database)

National Library of Medicine (NLM)—Lead Poisoning

NLM PubMed (bibliographic database)

National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Kids' Pages: Lead [Be sure to check NIEHS Centers for specific regional resources at http://www.nhttp://www.niehs.nih.gov/centers/ iehs.nih.gov/centers/]

Environmental Health Perspectives [online access to the NIEHS journal, including news articles, multidisciplinary articles, and medical articles, search for “lead poisoning”]

Lead and Your Health Lead Poisoning Fact Sheet

The Adult Blood Lead Epidemiology and Surveillance (ABLES) Program

Worker Exposures to Lead

Protecting Workers Exposed to Lead-Based Paint Hazards: A Report to Congress


New York State Department of Health. Lead.


Monroe County Lead Resources 

Lead Poisoning Among Children in Monroe County: A Needs Assessment, Projection Model, and Next Steps. Center for Governmental Information, Rochester, NY.

Monroe County. Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program.

Monroe County School Boards Association. 2003. The Scourge of Lead Poisoning.


City of Rochester Lead Resources 

City of Rochester. Getting the Lead Out

City of Rochester. Lead Hazard REduction Program (LHRP).

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institute of Health Environmental Health Sciences Center at the University of Rochester Medical Center

Community Outreach and Education Core, Environmental Health Sciences Center, University of Rochester Medical Center >

Rochester Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning.

Rochester Housing Council. Services for Landlords.

NeighborWorks Rochester

Environmental Education Associates. (Environmental Education Associates is an accredited E.P.A. lead certification training provided per the Toxic Substances Control Act, Section 402. EEA maintains this accreditation for the following jurisdictions: Alaska, Florida, Idaho, New Mexico, New York, Region 2 Tribal, Region 10 Tribal, South Carolina, and Washington.

RochesterEnvironment.com.

Other Cities’ Lead Stories
Other cities around the nation have similar stories to tell about their problems and solutions to the dilemma of childhood lead poisoning. Several of them can be found for:


Selected Full-text Online Publications and NGO, corporate, and other institutional Websites 

Channing Bete Company (do a product search with the word “lead”)

Clary-Meuser Research Network (aka MapCruzin.com)—“Greenwash” Organizations

Environmental Hazards Management Institute (EHMI)

National Safety Council Environmental Health Center: Lead Poisoning Prevention Outreach Program

NOAH: New York Online Access to Health—Lead

Public Health Forum http://bookstore.phf.org/prod207.htm

Environmental Defense

Lead in the Environment

Community Environmental Health Resource Center: Lead

Environmental Health Watch

Environmental Health Watch: Childhood Lead Poisoning Links

“Mrs. Gore, Cuomo and Browner Announce Clinton Administration Campaign for a Lead-Safe America to Protect Nation's Children.” State and Regional News, P.R. Newswire, November 19, 1997. PR Newswire, Inc.

“Toxic Lead and Violence.” Rachel’s Environment and Health News. #797, August 5, 2004.

“Lead in the Inner Cities: Policies to Reduce Children’s Exposure to Lead May Be Overlooking Major Sources of Lead in the Environment.” From: American Scientist. 87(1):62-73.

“Three Dynamics of Sustainable Communities: Economy, Ecology, and Equity.” American Library Association, Libraries Build Sustainable Communities

Community-Based Environmental Protection: A Resource Book for Protecting Ecosystems and Communities