Dive Deeper Into the Science

• Introduction to Epidemiology: An overview of epidemiology investigations, methods, and data collection. Materials include a PowerPoint presentation, eLearning courses, and a webinar presentation.
• Introduction to Public Health: An overview of public health core functions and essential services. Materials include a PowerPoint presentation, eLearning courses, and a webinar presentation.

• Public Health 101 – How the U.S. Public Health System Works: A webinar where panelists discuss how the US public health system works at national, state, and local levels and the 10 essential services of public health.

• “Why should I trust that new health study?”: A podcast episode outlining why epidemiologists are trusted sources of information.

• Particle Pollution and Health: An explanation on different kinds of air particle pollution and how it may negatively affect health. This site also provides a breakdown of air quality alerts, as well as recommendations on how to reduce exposure to particle pollution.

• Air Quality Monitoring: Information on how the DEC and its partners are tracking air quality throughout New York State, along with historical ambient air quality reports.
• Known DEC Superfund Sites: The DEC info locator allows the user to toggle on and off different layers of information such as the remediation sites under Environmental cleanup and the air monitoring sites. Codes and links to databases can be found from the superfund sites when a location is clicked on.
• Environmental Remediation Database: This page brings the user to three different database search options which are the following: Spill Incidents Database search, Environmental site Remediation database search, and Bulk storage database search. These can be used to find the site codes for a given industry.
• Site Classifications: Gives a complete definition of the different classification codes for registry and non-registry sites. Along with going into detail about what each classification means, this link details the threat to public health and environment.
• DEC Index of Site Codes: On this site all of the online documents for each DEC site can be found. This will include remediation plans, any data that has been digitized, and other relevant documents attached to site code. This does not include every document related to the site code.
• FOIL Requests: On this page you may submit a FOIL request, locate FOIL requests that have already been submitted, and find additional information related to spill incidents, remedial sites, and waste management.

• Particulate Matter PM_2.5 Information from the EPA: The EPA’s definition of Particulate Matter (PM_2.5), its effects, and how to reduce particle pollution/exposure.
• EPA search site: This link brings the user to the EPA’s search site where definitions of terms can be searched. Depending on the term, multiple different definitions can be found here from several sources.
• Superfund Remedial Investigation Study: Search site to EPA reports on different remediation sites.
• Tonawanda Coke Corporation (TCC) Site: EPA site breaking down the agency’s work on the site.
• Risk Assessment for Toxic Air Pollution: A Citizen's Guide Overview of what toxic air pollution is, related health risks, and risk assessment.
• Evaluating Exposures to Toxic Air Pollutants: A Citizen's Guide about which toxic air pollutants are most concerning and how to assess your exposure.
• Air Pollution and Health Risk: Overview of how we determine risk and put risk into perspective.
• Air Quality Index (AQI) Report: Reports that show the overall air quality of a region within a year by considering all criteria air pollutants. Useful information for this resource: about AQI reports and how to interpret an AQI report, about criteria air pollutants.
• Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool: Allows users to generate maps to search for demographic and environmental information.
• Risk Screening Environmental Indicators: A model to explore data on releases of toxic substances from industrial facilities.
• Toxics Release Inventory (TRI): A program that tracks the industrial management of toxic chemicals.

• The World Air Quality Index Project: Air monitoring website that shows the locations and current values that the station is measuring.
• Office of Environmental Remediation: Describes the remediation process step by step, as well as how to apply.
• History of Tonwanda Coke Video

Informational Communications Created by EHS Team:

• Tonawanda Community Air Quality Study (NY DEC): A community air quality monitoring study to evaluate public health risks in disadvantaged communities from pollutant concentration exposures.
• Tonawanda Study Area: Health Outcomes Review (NY DOH): A health outcomes review on potential health effects from emission exposures from local industries and vehicle traffic.
• Tonawanda Coke Soil Study (University of Buffalo): It should be noted that while this study is also related to Tonawanda Coke, it is a separate study than this Environmental Health Study. 

• Coke Oven Pollution (NIH): Outline of what coke emissions are, impact of exposure, and how exposure can be reduced.
• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry: A searchable database of individual toxics substances and health effects of exposure.
• Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs): General information about HAPs and the Clean Air Act, which requires the EPA to regulate toxic air pollutants from categories of industrial facilities.

• AirNow: Check local air quality and find air monitors near you.
• Environmental Public Health Tracking at County Level: An easy-to-use CDC tool that gives statistics and great graphics on topics such as asthma, smoking, built environment, and other health topics for your home county.
• Environmental Public Health Tracking Map Tool: A CDC tool for creating maps of different environment and environmental health indicators including air quality, childhood cancers, radon, and lifestyle risk factors.