Scorecard: The Pollution Information Site
About this resource
- Appropriate grades
- 7–12
- Subjects
- healthful living (physical health/disease prevention), science (agriculture, environmental science)
- Provider
- Environmental Defense
- Special requirements
- Adobe Acrobat Reader
Legal
This catalog record is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. This license applies to the content of this page only and does not apply to the referenced website.
Scorecard is an environmental information service provided by Environmental Defense. They currently provide reports on the following issues: air pollution from mobile, area and point sources, toxic chemical releases into the environment from manufacturing plants, and animal waste generated by factory farms. Scorecard also uses information from scientific sources and regulatory agencies to provide listings of the chemicals that can cause cancer, harm the immune system, contribute to birth defects, or lead to other types of health effects.
Scorecard's most popular feature is type lets you type in your zip code to access local information about local environmental conditions and problems. Find out about the pollution problems in your community and learn who is responsible. See which geographic areas and companies have the worst pollution records. Identify which racial/ethnic and income groups bear more than their share of environmental burdens.
Portions of this site are available in Spanish.
