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Environmental Research Foundation (ERF) is a small public-interest research organization now in its fourteenth year of operation.
Our programs include:
Each week we publish RACHEL'S ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH WEEKLY (formerly RACHEL'S HAZARDOUS WASTE NEWS). The newsletter provides timely information to local groups working to reduce the use of toxic chemicals. We cover landfills and incinerators, dangerous wastes (including municipal solid wastes, hazardous chemical wastes, and radioactive wastes), plus news of the grass-roots environmental movement that has sprung up worldwide during the last 15 years. Subscriptions to the newsletter are not free, but are priced to cover costs of production and mailing. The newsletter is distributed electronically to those with E-mail addresses free of charge.
ERF also publishes a variety of publications on topics such as incineration, landfilling, risk assessment, chemicals and health, pesticides, dioxin and many others.
For more information about our publications, please respond with a postal mailing address and we will send you our full publications list and a four-week trial subscription to our newsletter.
We maintain an on-line computerized database of information available to the public for the price of a phone call. Anyone can dial (410) 263-8903 (with modem set at 8-N-1) and sign on to RACHEL, the Remote Access Chemical Hazards Electronic Library.
The RACHEL database is a full-text searchable system, which means every document in the system is indexed by every word in the document. You type in a word or phrase, and RACHEL searches its archive and brings up every document containing that word or phrase.
Information available in RACHEL now includes the Coast Guard's CHRIS Manual (Chemical Hazard Response Information System), with toxicity data on roughly 1000 chemicals; New Jersey Department of Health peer-reviewed fact-sheets on some 800 toxic chemicals; abstracts of all environmental stories that have appeared in the NEW YORK TIMES since mid-1985; federal Department of Justice (DOJ) records on every polluter that DOJ has sued in court on behalf of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency since 1971 and all issues of our own weekly newsletter RACHEL'S ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH WEEKLY.
The Foundation is funded mainly by private foundations and by sale of its publications. The Foundation is recognized by Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization.
Donations to the Foundation are tax-deductible, though newsletter subscriptions are not.
The Foundation has a student intern program, and accepts help from volunteers.
Environmental Research Foundation can be reached at P.O. Box 5036, Annapolis, MD 21403-7036; Telephone (410) 263-1584; Fax (410) 263-8944; Internet erf@rachel.clark.net.
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