Hotline Resources

• Region 5 Experts List
• If you are a reporter, please contact our Media Relations staff
• EPA phone book (intranet version) (phone numbers, e-mail addresses, etc.)
• EPA phone book (public version)
• Fone Finder - Search for USA/Canadian telephone numbers

Selected EPA education materials you can order or download from NSCEP or EPA offices

Search the NSCEP Publications Catalog

Search National Technical Information Service

National Environmental Publications Internet Site (NEPIS) - Print or order EPA publications including many which may be out of print.

OLS - Search the EPA national catalog

Illinois EPA offices - online citizen pollution complaint form

Indiana contact info (IDEM), rules page, info for citizens NPDES permit public notices

Michigan contact info or follow "Contact DEQ" link at DEQ home page

Minnesota contact info

Ohio contact info or district offices map

Wisconsin contact info

• Region 5 Home page
• Region 5 Intranet
• EPA intranet
• EPA Topics
• Alphabetical list of EPA Topics (slower)

Registry of EPA Applications
and Databases (READ)

EPA hotlines and EPA clearinghouses

• Region 5 FAQs
• Master list of FAQs pages
• General EPA FAQs
• Energy Star and Energy Star Portfolio Manager
• Environmental Education
  1. Kids (grades K-5)
  2. Students (grades 6-8)
  3. High School (grades 9-12)
  4. Teachers
• Indoor Air Quality
• Radiation
• Safe Drinking Water (Ground Water and Drinking Water)
• Superfund and Superfund information systems
• Toxics Release Inventory
• Waste

• West Nile Virus
  Illinois | Indiana | Michigan | Minnesota | Ohio | Wisconsin
• Mold resources
• Treated wood
  • Where can I find information on wood treated with creosote?
  • What is being done about wood treated with CCA (chromated copper arsenate)?
• Spills Reporting
  • National Spills Hotline: 1-800-424-8802
  • Region 5 Spills number: 3-2318
    If a caller says that they've reported a spill and that the national spills center told them to call our number, refer them to 3-2318 instead.
• Report an environmental violation