On August 6, 1996, President Clinton signed amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act to implement comprehensive public health protection from the source to the tap.
Listed below are selected federal resources, including products of the Task Force and its member agencies, related to Children’s Environmental Health. You might also be interested in looking at our Featured Resources.
Asthma
- CDC EXHALE Strategies to Control Asthma
- CDC 618 Initiative: Accelerating Evidence into Action: Asthma
- CDC Asthma Resources (including the National Asthma Control Program)
- Coordinated Federal Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Asthma Disparities
- EPA Asthma Community Network
- EPA Asthma Resources
- Managing Asthma in the School Environment
- NHLBI Asthma Resources (including the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program)
- NIEHS Asthma Health Topic Page
Chemical Exposures & Lead
- Children's Health Exposure Analysis Resource
- Consumer Tool for Identifying POU Drinking Water Filters Certified to Reduce Lead
- Eliminating Childhood Lead Poisoning: A Federal Strategy Targeting Lead Paint Hazards
- EPA Lead Homepage
- EPA Safer Choice Program
- Federal Lead Action Plan to Reduce Lead Exposures Update 2021
- Funding Sources to Address Lead in Water
- Important Exposure Factors for Children: An Analysis of Laboratory and Observational Field Data Characterizing Cumulative Exposure to Pesticides
- Lead Awareness in Indian Country: Keeping our Children Healthy!
- Lead Exposure and Prevention Advisory Committee (LEPAC)
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: Children's Health
- National Report of Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals
- National Toxicology Program Monograph: Health Effects of Low-level Lead
- Phthalates Cumulative Risks
- Requirements for Notification, Evaluation, and Reduction of Lead-Based Paint Hazards in Federally Owned Residential Property and Housing Receiving Federal Assistance; Response to Elevated Blood Lead Levels
- Understanding Exposures in Children’s Environments
- Voluntary School and Child Care Lead Testing and Reduction Grant Program
Children’s Environmental Health
- America’s Children and the Environment
- Children's Health - Why the Environment Matters
- Children's Health
- Facts about Crypto and Swimming Pools (308KB) (308KB)
- Facts about Giardia and Swimming Pools (289KB) (289KB)
- NIH ECHO Program Overview - Dr. Matthew W. Gillman
- Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units
- Principles of Pediatric Environmental Health
- Protecting Children’s Environmental Health
- Renewing the Federal Commitment to Advance Children's Health: The President's Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children (172KB) (172KB)
- Task Force Fact Sheet 2015 (321KB) (321KB)
Climate, Emergencies, and Disasters
- Climate Change and Children's Health - EPA
- Climate Change and the Health of Children - EPA (2MB) (2MB)
- EPA: Protecting Children's Health During and After Natural Disasters
- Expert Consultation on the Effects of Climate Change on Children's Health Videos
- Heat Illness Prevention School Project Toolkit
- Nurses for Cool and Healthy Homes (1MB) (1MB)
- Populations of Concern: Climate Health Assessment
- Ready Wrigley Prepares for Extreme Heat (2MB) (2MB)
- The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment
Healthy Settings
- Advancing Healthy Housing - A Strategy for Action
- Change Is in the Air: An Action Guide for Establishing Smoke-free Public Housing and Multifamily Properties
- Children’s Health & the Built Environment
- Choose Safe Places for Early Care and Education
- EPA - Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Tools for Schools
- EPA - IAQ Design Tools for Schools (DTfS)
- EPA - Healthy School Environments
- Everyone Deserves a Safe and Healthy Home - Consumer Guide (1MB) (1MB)
- Everyone Deserves a Safe and Healthy Home - Stakeholder Guide (2MB) (2MB)
- Federal Radon Action Plan Scorecard
- Healthy Homes Research Seminar Series
- HUD Healthy Homes Program
- Instituting Smoke-Free Public Housing. Proposed Rule 24 CFR Parts 965 and 966
- Protect Indoor Air Quality in Your Home
- Smoke-Free Housing Toolkits
- Stoppests
Policies & Regulations
- Executive Order 13045 - Protection of Children from Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks
- Executive Order 13653: Preparing the United States for the Impacts of Climate Change (2013)
- Instituting Smoke-Free Public Housing. Proposed Rule 24 CFR Parts 965 and 966
- Presidential Proclamation: Child Health Day
- Requirements for Notification, Evaluation and Reduction of Lead-Based Paint Hazards in Federally Owned Residential Property and Housing Receiving Federal Assistance; Response to Elevated Blood Lead Levels
- Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act 29 U.S.C. § 701 et seq: Preventing Discrimination against Children with Disabilities (prevents discrimination against children requiring asthma treatment at school, including taking medication)
