CTIP Research Projects

The Corporate Toxics Information Project analyzes and disseminates information from the US Environmental Protection Agency on corporate releases of toxic chemicals and the resulting exposures of communities to air and water pollution hazards. The Project aims to help community-based activists and socially responsible investors to translate the right to know into the right to clean air and water.

CTIP Research Projects:

Justice in the Air: Environmental Justice and the Toxic 100 Corporations

Toxic 100 Index (updated April 2008)

Ash, Michael, and T. Robert Fetter. 2002. “Who Lives on the Wrong Side of the Environmental Tracks? Evidence From the EPA's Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators Model.” PERI Working Paper Number 50. (Published in Social Science Quarterly, Spring 2004).

Bouwes, Nicolaas W., Steven M. Hassur, and Mark D. Shapiro. 2001. “Empowerment Through Risk-Related Information: EPA's Risk Screening Environmental Indicators Project." PERI Working Paper Number 18. (Published in Natural Assets: Democratizing Environmental Ownership, edited by James K. Boyce and Barry G. Shelley, Island Press, 2003.

Links and Resources:

Right-to-Know Network's Evironmental Database

US Environmental Protection Agency - Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI)

US Environmental Protection Agency - Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Explorer

Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice

Environmental Defense Scorecard

Environmental Justice Database, Michigan State University

Environmental Justice Resource Center, Clark Atlanta University

OMB Watch

PERI's Environmental Justice Research

US Environmental Protection Agency - Environmental Justice Program