United States Information Resources EPA220-N-93-038 Environmental Protection Management November/December 1993 Agency (3404) &EPA The Catalyst Information for Environmental Action An Information Service for EPA HQ Staff from the Headquarters Library Computer Select CD-ROM Orientation If you use a computer, you should know about the Computer Select CD-ROM in the EPA Headquarters Library! Use the CD to access articles from more than 170 computer magazines — many full text — including product reviews, industry news, user tips, and more. The database also includes product specifications for more than 75,000 hardware, software and data communications products, and gives information on more than 13,000 manufacturers of computer products. Computer Select can help you evaluate and select hardware and software, locate vendors, and give you the full text of articles on information management topics. Demo. Learn how to search Computer Select at a CD-ROM demonstration on Tuesday, February 15, 1994,10-11am, in the Headquarters Library. Call 202-260-5921 to sign up. ~ BNA's Environment Library on CD The Headquarters Library has a powerful new tool for searching environmental statutes and regulations: BNA's Environment Library on CD. The full text of CFR Title 40 and other environmentally-related CFR titles, the text of proposed regulations, environmental titles of the U.S. Code, and major environmental laws, are fully searchable using Folio software. The CD-ROM also includes the full text of some EPA guidance documents, memoranda of understanding, Executive Orders, and pesticide registration notices. Some state environmental laws and regs are even included, and with each update to our subscription, new state information will be added. ~ For a complete list of CD-ROMs available in the HQ Library see pages 3 & 4. EPA Headquarters Library (3404) WSM2904 202-260-5922 Printed on Recycled Paper ------- ED Author, Author! Agency employees recently published books and articles. The authors and titles of published works are listed below: Colhem, C. Richard, Physicist, Environmental Statistics and Information Division, Office of Policy, Planning and Evaluation (2163) and Ross, N. Phillip, Director, Environmental! Statistics and Information Division, Office of Policy, Planning and Evaluation (2163), editors, Environmental Statistics, Assessment, and Forecasting. BocaRaton, FL: Lewis Publishers, December 1993. Moore, David Montgomery, attorney, Office of Enforcement, Superfund Division (2244) "The Divisibility of Harm Defense to Joint and Several Liability Under CERCLA," Environmental Law Reporter News and Analysis, Vol. 23, No. 9, September 1993 pp. 10529-10535. ff you have written or edited a journal article or book, please let us know by sending the information to us at The Catalyst, 3404 or email Library.HQ. ~ Legislative Library The following public laws have been signed into law: S. 20, Government Performance and Results Act of 1993, signed August 3,1993, P.L. 103-62 H. R. 2264, Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, signed August 10,1993, PL. 103-66 H.R. 2010, National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993, signed September 21,1993, P.L. 103-82 The Legislative Library daily summary of the Congressional Record is now available on email. If you would like to quickly receive the latest information on what is happening in Congress please call and ask to receive this service. Joan Platten Legislative Librarian Room 2439 Mall 202-260-5425 ~ Conferences, Meetings, Symposiums, Workshops This is a selected list of meetings and conferences Chosen for their potential interest to EPA staff. If EPA staff wish to have an EPA-sponsored event listed here, please forward the information to The Catalyst, EPA HQ Library, 401 M St., SW, 3404, Washington, DC 20460 or email Library.HQ. Wetlands: Local Functions, Global Dependence. -May 30-June 3,1994, Portland, OR. Sponsored by the Society of Wetland Scientists. For more information contact: Charles Simenstad, Wetland Ecosystem Team, WH-10, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 or call 206- 543-7185 or Fax 206^685-7471 Women's Health and the Environment. January 10,1994, Davis, CA. Sponsored by the Center for Environmental Health Sciences. For more information contact: Ms. Beth Morgan, Center Secretary, Center for Environmental Health Sciences, Oept. of Environmental Toxicology, University of California, Davis CA 95616 or call 916-752- 4251. THE CATALYST NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1993 PAGE 2 ------- Management Today & Tomorrow: How It Must Change. January 18-21, 1994, Chicago, IL. Sponsored by Quality Management Seminars, Inc. For more information contact: Quality Enhancement Seminars, Inc., 1081 Westwood Blvd., Suite 217, Los Angeles, CA 90024 or call 800-574- 5544 or 310-824-9623 or Fax 310-824-7170. Reengineering Customer Service in Government. January 27-28, 1994, Cambridge, MA. Sponsored by the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. For more information contact: Jerry Mechling, Director, John F. Kennedy School of Government, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 or call 617-495-3036 or Fax 617-496-1722. an electronic copy of a law or regulation, to verify a citation, to identify a government- produced report... CD-ROMs make large amounts of data easily accessible with menu- driven software. Come to the Headquarters Library to search any of the following CD- ROMs, and bring a diskette if you would like to download information into a WordPerfect file. Agricola. Abstracts of agricultural publications and journal articles; includes extensive citations on pesticides. Coverage back to 1970. Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts. Worldwide literature on fish and the aquatic environment is abstracted. Pollution Prevention Workshop Orientation. February 1,1994. MuirRoom, EPA Education Center, EPA Headquarters. Sponsored by EPA Institute. For more information contact: Virginia Rheinhardt at 202-260-8022. 1994 Association of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies Winter Technical Conference. February 1-4,1994, San Diego, CA. Sponsored by the Association of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies (AMSA). For more information contact: Jackie Hamilton, AMSA, 1000 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 1000, Washington, DC 20036 or call 202-833-AMSA or fax 202-833-4657. ~ CD-ROMs in the Headquarters Library BNA Environment Library on CD-ROM. Includes the full text of CFR title 40, proposed regulations, the U.S. Code, some state laws and more. Chem-Bank. Chemical information including the RTECS, IRIS, OHMTADS, HSDB and CHRIS databases. Computer Select. Covers computer literature, including the full text of many computer magazine articles, product specifications, and information on computer companies. El Energy and Environment. Abstracts of articles and books on environmental and energy technologies. Envlro/Energyline Abstracts Plus. Abstracts for articles from 400 environmental periodicals, over the past twenty years. Environment Library. Citations for environment-related books held in libraries across the country. Why use a CD-ROM? To locate citations to journals on a certain topic, to get THE CATALYST NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1993 PAGE 3 ------- FAR/FIRMR. The full text of the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and Federal Information Resources Management Regulations (FIRMR); helps to locate a needle in a haystack. Reference Inquiries 202-260-5921 Circulation Inquiries 202-260-5922 Interlibrary Loan 202-260-5060 Hazardous Waste-Reference 202-260-5934 INFOTERRA-Reference 202-260-5917 Water-Reference 202-260-8670 Email Libraiy.HQ The Headquarters Library is contractor operated and managed by the Office of Information Resources Management (OIRM) Information Access Branch. Federal Register. The full text of each day's Federal Register, going back to January 1993 (updated every two weeks). GPO. Citations for publications available from the Government Printing Office. Medline. The massive database of the National Library of Medicine, with abstracts from biomedical literature. NTIS. Abstracts of technical reports issued by the U.S. government, including EPA. PAIS. More than 1,600 journals in the social sciences, including international affairs, economics and social issues, are abstracted. Pest-Bank. Information on 27,500 currently registered pesticides, and 40,000 cancelled products. Toxic Release Inventory. The TRI CD-ROM includes information on 300 chemicals and their release into the environment. Toxline. Abstracts sources of toxicological information from reports and journal literature. Water Resources Abstracts. Water resources management, hydrology, surface water — if an article or report has been written, it is probably abstracted in this database. ~ THE CATALYST NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1993 PAGE 4 New Library Hours 10am to 2pm, Monday-Friday ------- ^eo sr^ United States EPA/IMSD o," Environmental Protection November/December 1993 iw! — InfoPage: Green Consumerism Assessing the environmental consumer market. Washington, DC: Office of Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Environmental Protection Agency, 1991. EPAX 9107-0034 Buying "green": Federal purchasing practices and the environment: hearing, November 8,1991. United States. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, 1992. Coddington, Walter Environmental marketing: positive strategies for reaching the green consumer. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993. Curran, M. A. and A. R. Robertson. EPA Clean Products Research Program. Cincinnati, OH: Risk Reduction Engineering Laboratory, Environmental Protection Agency, 1991. (PB91-176826) Duming, Alan Thein. How much is enough? The consumer society and the future of the earth. Washington, DC: Worldwatch institute, 1992. Environmental labeling of consumer products: hearing, May 16,1990. United States. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on the Consumer. 1990. Esko, Edward. Healing planet earth. Becket, MA: One Peaceful World Press, 1992. Evaluation of environmental marketing terms in the United States. Washington, DC: Office of Pollution, Prevention, and Toxics, Environmental Protection Agency, 1993. (EPA/741/R-92/003) PPC EPA/741/R-92/003 Frankel, Carl. The trouble with green products. Buzzworm, November/December, 1991, Vol. 3, No. 6, pp. 36-40. The green pages: A directory of U.S. suppliers of environmental products & services. Washington, DC: Delphos International, 1993. REF TD169.6.G74 1993 Green products by design: Choices for a cleaner environment. Energy-BCC, February 1993, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 12-15. Greenberg, Eric F. Green issues are ripe: The regulation of environmental marketing claims. Loyola Consumer Law Reporter, Spring 1991, Vol. 3, pp. 80-85. Hayes, Denis. Harnessing market forces to protect the earth: A credible environmental seal for products and packaging could inform consumers and help prompt manufacturers to do the right thing. Science and Technology, Winter 1990/1991, Vol. 7, pp. 46-51. ------- Israel, Glenn. Taming the green marketing monster: national standards for environmental marketing claims. Boston College of Environmental Affairs Law Review, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 303-333,1993. J. Ottman Consulting, Inc. Environmental consumerism: What every marketer needs to know: an essential guide to the foremost trend of our time. New York: J. Ottman Consulting, in conjunction with Research Alert, 1991. Kashmanian, Richard M. Environmental consumerism unfolds. Resource Recycling, April 1991, Vol. 10, pp. 40ff. Lewis, Eleanor J. Forty ways to make government purchasing green. Washington, DC: Center for Study of Responsive Law, 1992. JK 1673.L48 1992 and PPC JK 1673.L48 1992 Lueher, Paul H. Guiding the green revolution: The role of the Federal Trade Commission in regulating environmental advertising. UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 311-336, 1992. Morales, Leslie Anderson. The economics of "green consumerism": A bibliography. Monticello, IL: Vance Bibliographies, 1991. Pettit, Dean and Jerry Paul Sheppard. It's not easy being green: The limits of green consumerism in light of the logic of collective action. Queen's Quarterly, Summer 1992, Vol. 99, pp. 328-350. Rathe, Todd A. The gray area of the green market: Is it really environmentally friendly? solutions to confusion caused by environmental advertising. Journal of Corporation Law, Winter 1992, Vol. 17, pp. 419-458. Status report on the use of environmental labels worldwide. Washington, DC: Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, 1993. PPC EPA/742/R-9-93/001 Wang, Penelope. Going for the green. Money, September 1991, Vol. 20, No. 9, pp. 98-102. Watson, Tom. The eco-labeling challenge: Two new programs in the U.S. epitomize the worldwide wave of interest in environmental labeling of products. Resource Recycling, Fall 1991, Vol. 10, pp. 54-59. The preceding list of documents may help provide answers to some questions about green consumerism. EPA Headquarters staff can borrow these items through the Headquarters Library. ------- THE CATALYST NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1993 PAGE 7 ------- United States Environmental Protection Agency (PM-211A) Washington, DC 20460 Official Business Penalty for Private Use $300 US EPA UO crrv Headquarters and Chemical Libraries EPA West BJdg Room 3340 Maiicode 3404T 1301 Constitution Ave NW Washington DC 20004 202-566-0556 THE CATALYST NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1993 PACES ------- |