See Healthy Air - Healthy Home Workshop Resources
Asbestos
Biological Pollutants and Allergens (pet dander, cockroaches, dust mites, mold and pollen)
Carbon Monoxide and Combustion Products
Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS or ‘second hand smoke')
General IAQ Resources
- American Lung Association
Information on indoor air pollution, its health effects and steps to take to improve the indoor air quality in your home.
http://www.lung.org/our-initiatives/healthy-air/indoor/
- Consumer Product Safety Commission - A Guide to Indoor Air Quality
A detailed booklet on indoor air pollution, including where it comes from, what the health risks are, and ways to improve the air quality in your home
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/450.html
- EPA Addressing Indoor Environmental Concerns During Remodeling
Information to follow when remodeling or improving the energy efficiency of your home, steps to minimize pollution from sources inside the home, either from new materials, or from disturbing materials already in the home
http://www.epa.gov/iaq/homes/hip-concerns.html
- EPA Indoor Air Quality - IAQ House
Interactive house, click on rooms and sources of indoor air pollution and messages about how to reduce the sources and actions to take pop up
http://www.epa.gov/iaq/iaqhouse.html
- Metro - Sustainable Living
Information on green cleaners, natural gardening, tips for purchasing products.
http://www.oregonmetro.gov
- EPA's Design for the Environment
Information about safe cleaning supplies and where to find them
http://www.epa.gov/dfe/
- GreenSeal
Independent third party certification program for safe cleaning supplies and information about where to find GreenSeal-certified products
http://www.greenseal.org/
Lead
Oregon Public Health - Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
- Provides information on how to prevent lead exposure in the home and at work. The programis working to prevent and reduce lead-based paint exposures by overseeing certification and training of professionals working with lead-based paint and enforcinglead-based paint regulations.
http://www.healthoregon.org/lead
Mold
- Community Alliance for Tenants
Statewide, grassroots, tenant-controlled, tenant-rights organization. Educates, organizes and develops leadership of low-income tenants to directly challenge unjust housing policies and practice
http://oregoncat.org/
- EPA Mold and Moisture
Basic information, where you live, frequent questions, publications, image library, mold clean up advice and flood clean up informationhttp://www.epa.gov/mold/
- Northwest Clean Air Agency
Provides educational material specific to the PNW, including the mold video that was shown during the EH@Home presentation.http://nwcleanair.org/
- Oregon Public Health - Toxicology Consulting Services
Provides education over the phone, online and through publications for the public and other entities including ways to protect health and actions to take.
http://www.healthoregon.org/envtox
Outdoor Air - (which influences your indoor air)
Radon
- Oregon Public Health - Radiation Protection Services
Provides information and educational materials to the public on the hazards of radon gas.
http://www.healthoregon.org/radon
Volatile Organic Compounds
- EPA Indoor Air Quality - Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)
This site is dedicated to education on VOCs that come from thousands of household products. Studies have found homes with VOC levels 2 to 5 times higher than outdoor air.
http://www.epa.gov/iaq/voc.html
- Oregon Public Health - Toxicology Consulting Services
Provides education over the phone, online and through publications for the public and other entities including ways to protect health and actions to take.
http://www.healthoregon.org/envtox