Quick Links

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United States National Library of Medicine: National Institute of Health Environmental Health and Toxicology SIS
This site serves as a portal for disaster and hurricane specific environmental health information.
http://www.sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/hurricane.html

Center for Disease Control (CDC)
This is the portal from the CDC's Emergency Preparedness & Response  division on hurricanes.
http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/hurricanes/index.asp

Lousiana Department of Environmental Quality (LA DEQ)
 
This page provides up to date recovery information from the LA DEQ http://www.deq.louisiana.gov/portal/Default.aspx?tabid=224

Environmental Protection Agency  (EPA)
http://www.epa.gov/katrina/testresults/index.html

Environmental Health Perspectives
This site links to a Katrina/Rita  specific Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), a monthly journal of peer-reviewed research and news  published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
http://www.ehponline.org/members/2006/114-1/ehp0114-a00032.pdf

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
This page provides the NRDC's analysis and interpretation of post-Katrina soil, air, and water samples in the greater New Orleans area.
http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/katrinadata/contents.asp