Useful links : the reference for MTBE and fuel oxygenates


GROUNDWATER

http://www.aehsmag.com The Association for Environmental Health and Sciences (AEHS) also publishes Contaminated Soil, Sediment, & Water, a magazine regularly featuring articles on state-of-the-art remediation techniques.

http://www.api.org/ehs/fpr/4682rh.htm API page on Free Phase Hydrocarbon Liquids Recovery

http://www.api.org/ehs/mtbelink.htm API Publication 4699: "Strategies for Characterizing Subsurface Releases of Gasoline Containing MTBE"

http://www.clarinet.at Contaminated Land Rehabilitation Network For Environmental Technologies in Europe

http://www.clu-in.org Hazardous Waste Clean-up Information website: innovative treatment technologies to the hazardous waste remediation community (US EPA site)

http://clu-in.org/products/citguide EPA Remediation and Characterization InnovativeTechnologies (US EPA site, subset of the above link)

http://www.cordis.lu Information on a vast range of research, development and innovation activities undertaken on a European level

http://www.eea.eu.int The European Environment Agency's gateway to environmental information, containing links to various organisations working on oil/groundwater issues

http://www.epa.gov/superfund View of the Superfund programme (US EPA)

http://www.epa.gov/ORD/SITE Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation (SITE) Programme (US EPA)

http://www.epa.gov/tio Technology Innovation Office (TIO) of the United States Environmental Protection Agency

http://www.epareachit.org To search, view, download, and print information about REmediation And Characterization Innovative Technologies (US EPA) 

http://www.frtr.gov/matrix2/appd_c/appd_c24.html Vendor Information System for Innovative Treatment Technologies (US EPA)

http://www.gnet.org Environmental technology business centre (US DoE)

http://www.gwrtac.org Groundwater Remediation Technologies Analysis Center; provides information on various innovative remediation technologies, vendor information etc (US EPA)

http://www.nato.int/ccms NATO Environmental Clearing House

http://www.ngwa.org US National Ground Water Association

http://www.nicole.org NICOLE: the Network of Industrially Contaminated Land in Europe

http://www.rec.org Regional Environment Center for Central and Eastern Europe

http://www.rtdf.org The Remediation Technologies Development Forum (US EPA)

HEALTH

http://www.iarc.fr - International Agency for Research on Cancer - IARC is part of the World Health Organisation http://193.51.164.11/htdocs/monographs/Vol73/73-13.html International Agency for Research on Cancer - summary of data reported and evaluation of MTBE

http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/1998/106p115-125caprino/abstract.html Potential Health Effects of Gasoline and Its Constituents: A Review of Current Literature (1990-1997) on Toxicological Data

http://www.concawe.be/Html/REPORT1-97/Report1-97.htm First Aid information on a large variety of petroleum products for paramedic personnel and doctors

http://www.epa.gov/ord/htm/risk.htm Office of Research and Development: risk assessment and management to remediate environmental and human health problems (US EPA)

http://www.ecetoc.org European Centre for Ecotoxicology and Toxicology of Chemicals

www.healtheffects.org Health Effects Institute - independent organisation providing impartial science on the health effects of pollutants from motor vehicles

http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/
chemicals/mtbe/en/index.html
 
World Health Organization on MTBE in drinking water
http://biade.itrust.de/biaen/lpext.dll?f=templates&fn=main-h.html First Aid information of paramedic personnel and doctors on a wide variety of products, including MTBE

Q&A

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/autos/gasoline-faq/part1/
A comprehensive Questions/Answers technical article on gasoline
http://www.calgasoline.com A resource of MTBE news and facts in California

INDUSTRY

http://www.acea.be Association des Constructeurs Européens d'Automobiles - European Automobile Manufacturers Association
http://www.fidic.org Environmental Federation of Consulting Engineers

http://www.aecc.be Association for Emissions Control by Catalyst

http://www.petrochemistry.net The gateway to the world of petrochemistry created by the Association of Petrochemicals Producers in Europe (APPE)

http://www.acfa.sg.org  The Asian Clean Fuels Association

http://www.biofuelsmarkets.com Networking events designed to explore ways to stimulate the uptake of biofuels.

REFINING INDUSTRY

http://www.concawe.be Oil Companies' European Organisation for Environment, Health and Safety

http://www.europia.com The European oil refining and marketing industry

http://www.ifp.fr IFP (Institut Français du Pétrole)

http://www.ifqc.org The International Fuel Quality Center (IFQC)

http://www.api.org American Petroleum Institute

ENVIRONMENT

http://eionet.eu.int European Environment Information and Observation Network

http://www.epa.gov US Environmental Protection Agency -- large, comprehensive and useful sources of information

http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/legis_en.htm
European Union environment legislation

http://www.aeat.co.uk/netcen/airqual/forecast/smogwarners
Ozone data from across Europe

http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/aric/eae/index.html
The Encyclopaedia of the Atmospheric Environment

http://www.eea.eu.int The European Environment Agency's gateway to environmental information

http://www.jrc.it The Environment Institute (EU Joint Research Centre)

http://www.environ.se General info on Ozone (Swedish)

http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/index.html
US EPA's Global Warming Site

http://www.eeb.org The European Environmental Bureau (EEB)

http://www.unfccc.de/resource/country/index.html
Kyoto Protocol Information by Country

http://www.unfccc.int
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

http://www.dmu.dk/forside_en.asp
The National Environmental Research Institute of Denmark

http://www2.envmed.rochester.edu/envmed/PMC/useful_linksPMC.html US EPA's Particulate Matter Center

http://www.lowcvp.org.uk
Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership



AIR QUALITY

http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/environment/air/index.htm
The European Commission Environment Policy for Air Quality

http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/air/cafe_steering_group.htm
The EC CAFE Programme (Clean Air For Europe) Steering Group

http://etc-acc.eionet.eu.int/
The European Topic Centre on Air and Climate Change

http://www.aeat.co.uk/netcen/airqual/welcome.html
The UK National Air Quality Information Archive

http://www.naei.org.uk
Air and Environmental Quality in the UK

http://www.epa.gov/airmarkets/resources.html
US EPA's Clean Air Market programs

http://www.dhs.ca.gov/ps/ddwem/chemicals/mtbe/mtbeindex.htm California Department of HealthServices

EUROPE

http://europa.eu.int/index-en.htm The European Union's server

http://www.europarl.eu.int European Parliament