Books
Advocating for the Environment: How to Gather Your Power and Take Action (2021) by Susan B. Inches.
Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle Against DuPont (2019) by Robert Billot.
Children's Health and the Peril of Climate Change (2022) by Dr. Frederica Perera.
Female Disruptors: Stories of Mighty Female Scientists (2022) by Mindi Messmer, MS.
Human Health and the Climate Crisis (2022) by Gail Carlson, PhD at Colby
Our Stolen Future (1997) by Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, John Peterson Myers.
Sicker, Fatter, Poorer (2019) by Leo Trasande, MD
Silent Spring (1962) by Rachel Carson
Advocating for the Environment: How to Gather Your Power and Take Action (2021) by Susan B. Inches.
Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle Against DuPont (2019) by Robert Billot.
Children's Health and the Peril of Climate Change (2022) by Dr. Frederica Perera.
Female Disruptors: Stories of Mighty Female Scientists (2022) by Mindi Messmer, MS.
Human Health and the Climate Crisis (2022) by Gail Carlson, PhD at Colby
Our Stolen Future (1997) by Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, John Peterson Myers.
Sicker, Fatter, Poorer (2019) by Leo Trasande, MD
Silent Spring (1962) by Rachel Carson
Organizations
Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry. www.atsdr.cdc.gov
Defend Our Health. www.defendourhealth.org. and
Defend Our Health. www.defendourhealthaction.org
Environmental Protection Agency. www.epa.gov (mercury)
Environmental Working Group. www.ewg.org
Green Science Policy Institute. www.greensciencepolicy.org
International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology. www.aiomt.org
International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal. www.bhopal.net
International Pollutant Elimination Network. www.ipen.org
MOFGA's PFAS Fact Sheet
Nantucket PFAS Action Group. www.pfasactiongroup.com
National PFAS Contamination Coalition. www.pfasproject.net
PFAS Central. www.pfascentral.org (list of PFAS-free products)
PFAS Exchange. www.pfas-exchange.org
PFAS Free PPE. www.pfasfreeppe.com
Retailer Report Card. www.retailerreportcard.com
Safer Chemicals Healthy Families. www.saferchemicals.org
Safer States. www.saferstates.org
Six Classes. Green Science Policy Institute. www.sixclasses.org
Sunlight Media Collective. www.sunlightmediacollective.org
Tracking PFAS, not otherwise listed. www.turi.org
Toxic Free Future. www.toxicfreefuture.org
Toxic Use Reduction Institute. www.turi.org
Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry. www.atsdr.cdc.gov
Defend Our Health. www.defendourhealth.org. and
Defend Our Health. www.defendourhealthaction.org
Environmental Protection Agency. www.epa.gov (mercury)
Environmental Working Group. www.ewg.org
Green Science Policy Institute. www.greensciencepolicy.org
International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology. www.aiomt.org
International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal. www.bhopal.net
International Pollutant Elimination Network. www.ipen.org
MOFGA's PFAS Fact Sheet
Nantucket PFAS Action Group. www.pfasactiongroup.com
National PFAS Contamination Coalition. www.pfasproject.net
PFAS Central. www.pfascentral.org (list of PFAS-free products)
PFAS Exchange. www.pfas-exchange.org
PFAS Free PPE. www.pfasfreeppe.com
Retailer Report Card. www.retailerreportcard.com
Safer Chemicals Healthy Families. www.saferchemicals.org
Safer States. www.saferstates.org
Six Classes. Green Science Policy Institute. www.sixclasses.org
Sunlight Media Collective. www.sunlightmediacollective.org
Tracking PFAS, not otherwise listed. www.turi.org
Toxic Free Future. www.toxicfreefuture.org
Toxic Use Reduction Institute. www.turi.org
Movies
Dark Waters. (2020) Mark Ruffalo (Actor/Producer), Anne Hathaway (Actor) and Todd Haynes (Director)
Evidence of Harm (2020) Feature Documentary Exposing the Hazards of Toxic Mercury Dental Amalgam Fillings.
Minamata (2020) Mercury poisoning in a Japanese community, in 1971. Drama is based on a true story. Johnny Depp, Hiroyuki Sana'a and Jun Kunimura (actors).
The Devil We Know (2018) Starring Bucky Bailey, Melinda Bailey, Joe Kiger. Director, Stephanie Soechtig.
Government
Maine Government. www.maine.gov
Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry on PFAS
Maine Department of Environmental Protection on PFAS
Tools
Tap Water Database 2021 from EWG, check your water by zip code.
Free Water Testing for Low Income Mainers.
Papers and Articles
Ski wax use contributes to environmental contamination by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. Gail L. Carlson and Skylar Tupper. ChemosphereVolume 261, December 2020, 128078
Problem Plastic: How Polyester and PET Plastic Can Be Unsafe, Unjust and Unsustainable Materials. Summer 2022 by Roopa Krithivasan.
Something in the Water: Robert Bilott on Corporate Greed and Chemical Contamination by Tracy Frisch, The Sun Magazine. March 2022
Toxic PFAS Chemicals found in Artificial Turf. The Intercept. Oct 8, 2019.