News, Info, + Groups

These links include information the following topics:

• General Environmental Information
• Pollution and Cancer
• U.S. Environmental Groups
• Regional Environmental/Biological Groups and Resources
• Science-based Resources
• Government Resources
• Environmental Education and Planners
• Free Market Environmental Think Tanks
• Politics, Public Policy, and the Environment

General Environmental Information

• Biodiversity Project
• Earth Day
• Earth Day Information Center
• Earth Day, Wilderness Society
• Earthsystems.Org
• Louisiana Energy & Environmental Resource and Information Center (LEERIC)
• Louisiana Environmentalist (LDEQ newsletter)
• National Council for Science and the Environment
  Includes loads of information, including the National Library for the Environment, links to over 300 environmental journals, and much, much more.
• Public Interest Research Group (PIRG)
• Rachel's Environmental Research Foundation
• Yahoo, Environment and Nature

Pollution and Cancer

• American Chemistry Council (formerly Chemical Manufacturers Association)
• Chlorine Chemistry Council
• Citizens for the Right-to-Know
• Greenpeace USA
• Louisiana Chemical Association
• Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (mercury, Toxic Release Inventory, etc.)
• Louisiana Department of Natural Resources (coastal issues, oil & gas)
• Louisiana Tumor Registry
• Lower Mississippi River Interagency Cancer Study
• Surveillance Epidemiology & End Results (SEER)
• National Directory of Environmental and Regulatory Victims
• North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (cancer information for all states)

U.S. Environmental Groups

• American Oceans Campaign
• Conservation International
• Corp Watch
• Environmental Defense
• Environmental Research Foundation
• Environmental Working Group
• Greenpeace USA
• League of Conservation Voters
• National Audubon Society
• National Wildlife Federation
• Natural Resources Defense Council
• The Nature Conservancy
• Public Interest Research Group (PIRG)
• Restore America's Estuaries
• Rocky Mountain Institute
• Sierra Club
• World Resources Institute
• World Wildlife Fund
• Worldwatch Institute

Regional Environmental/Biological Groups and Resources

• Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program
• Baton Rouge Audubon
• Black Bear Conservation Committee
• Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana
• Deep South Center for Environmental Justice
• Delta Chapter, Sierra Club
• The Green Project
• Gulf Restoration Network
• Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation -(Save our Lake)
• Louisiana Audubon Council
• Louisiana Bucket Brigade
• Louisiana Environmental Action Network
• Louisiana Ornithological Society
• Louisiana Wildlife Federation
• Lower Mississippi Riverkeepers
• The Nature Conservancy of Louisiana
• Orleans Audubon
• Pontchartrain Institute for Environmental Sciences, UNO

Science-based Resources

• Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Alabama
• Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON)
• Loyola University Department of Biological Sciences
• LSU, School of the Coast & Environment
• LSU, Coastal Fisheries Institute (CFI)
• LSU, Coastal Studies Institute (CSI)
• LSU, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences (DOCS)
• LSU, Earth Scan Laboratory (ESL)
• LSU, Institute for Environmental Studies (IES)
• LSU, Louisiana Geographic Information Center (LAGIC)
• THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES (National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, National Research Council)
• National Wetlands Research Center
• Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University
• SLU, Turtle Cove Environmental Research Station
• Southeastern Louisiana Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Group
• Tulane Mississippi River Database Project
• Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research
• Pontchartrain Institute for Environmental Sciences, UNO
• Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford University, publishes Ecofables/Ecoscience

Government Resources

• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• EPA Sponsored Websites
• Gulf of Mexico Program
• Info Louisiana (entry to Louisiana government websites)
• Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry
• Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
• Louisiana Geographic Information System Council (demographic info)
• Louisiana Sea Grant
• LSU Agricultural Center (extension service)

Environmental Education and Planners

• Advanced Technology Environmental Education Center
• The Association of Nature Center Administrators (ANCA)
• The Audubon Nature Institute, New Orleans
• Council for Environmental Education (CEE)
• INFORM, Strategies for a Better Environment
• Lessons on the Lake: An Educational Guide to the Pontchartrain Basin
• Peninsula Conservation Center Foundation, Palo Alto, Calif.
• Project Wild
• Resource Renewal Institute
• Tree of Life, University of Arizona
• UC Berkeley, The Graduate School of Journalism, Environmental Journalism

Free Market Environmental Think Tank

• Center for Private Conservation
  
• CATO Institute
• Competitive Enterprise Institute
• The Heartland Institute, publish Environment News
• National Center for Policy Analysis
• Pacific Research Institute
• PERC, Property & Environment Research Center
• Reason Public Policy Institute

Politics, Public Policy, and the Environment

• Campus Greens
• Green Party USA
• Republicans for Environmental Protection
• Brookings Institution
• Global Environmental Management Initiative
• American Land Rights Association