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Environment

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency maintains online databases of materials related to hazardous waste, the Clean Lakes program and cleanup efforts in New England. The agency plans to eventually include cleanup work in other regions, as well. The database is actually a computerized card catalog of EPA documents -- you can look the documents up, but you'll still have to visit your regional EPA office to see them.

Telnet: epaibm.rtpnc.epa.gov
No password or user name is needed.

At the main menu, type

public

and hit enter (there are other listed choices, but they are only for use by EPA employees). You'll then see a one-line menu. Type

ols

and hit enter, and you'll see something like this:

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DATABASES:
N     NATIONAL CATALOG         CH    CHEMICAL COLL. SYSTEM
H     HAZARDOUS WASTE          1     REGION I
L     CLEAN LAKES

OTHER OPTIONS:
?     HELP
Q     QUIT

ENTER SELECTION -->

Choose one and you'll get a menu that lets you search by document title, keyword, year of publication or corporation. After you enter the search word and hit enter, you'll be told how many matches were found. Hit 1 and then enter to see a list of the entries. To view the bibliographic record for a specific entry, hit V and enter and then type the number of the record.

The University of Michigan maintains a database of newspaper and magazine articles related to the environment, with the emphasis on Michigan, dating back to 1980.

Telnet: hermes.merit.edu
Host: mirlyn
Log in: meem

Envirolink is a large database and conference system about the environment, based in Pittsburgh.

Telnet: envirolink.org
Log on: gopher

See under Current Events section Current Events and Congress section Congress.

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