National Center for Environmental Health, run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was established to promote health by preventing or controlling diseases or deaths resulting from interactions between people and their environment.

Although NCEH Topics includes rather impressive list of topics, the actual pages do not live up to the anticipation. One of specific interest, Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT), is billed as "the ongoing collection, integration, analysis, and interpretation of data about environmental hazards, exposure to environmental hazards, and human health effects potentially related to exposure to environmental hazards. It includes dissemination of information learned from these data."

Since the program was only established in 2002, none of the programs or partners has the data available on the Web yet. It might be worth bookmarking this site for future reference. If it lives up to its intention of assisting "federal, state, and local agencies to develop and evaluate effective public health actions to prevent or control chronic and acute diseases linked to hazards in the environment," it may be a valuable source for environmental journalists.