(the most recently worked on tools are at the top)
| Web tool | Description | Publisher |
| www.fedspending.org | This site provides access to databases of U.S. Federal government contracts and grants going back to fiscal year 2000. | OMB Watch |
| Hazardous Waste Data Search | This is one of RTK NET's old-style "standard reports" re-written into a newer interface using PHP. It provides complete access to EPA's biennial hazardous waste data, letting people get a chosen subset of the data either in human-readable form with the codes translated, or in a delimited format suitable for download into a spreadsheet or database. | OMB Watch |
| CEC Querybuilder | As part of my work for Hampshire Research, I created a program for the CEC (North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation) that allows users to search and retrieve both U.S. TRI and Canadian NPRI data, added up by facility, industry, chemical, or geographic area. The program can present its search forms and output in English, French, or Spanish. | CEC |
| Face On the Numbers | This program lets people put stories about how governmental services have helped them into a Web-searchable database that can be used by reporters and others. The program required Web-based administration of the database so that stories could be entered, approved, and edited remotely. | OMB Watch |
| NET Power! Tool | Declared a site of the day by Yahoo, this program let you calculate how much CO2 you produced from your residential electricity use, and let you compare your electric utility's efficiency and power sources against other electric utilities. National Environmental Trust has stopped maintaining it. | National Environmental Trust |
| Car MPG Tool | This site let you figure out how much CO2 you contribute to global climate change through driving your car, and let you compare your car against others to see how much less CO2 you'd release and how much money you'd save on gas if you switched cars. National Environmental Trust has stopped maintaining it. | National Environmental Trust |
| TRI Standard Report | This tool lets you search Toxic Release Inventory data and retrieve it in either a human-readable form or a format that can be loaded into a database or spreadsheet. It allows a high degree of control over the output without overwhelming the user with options. It was re-designed in early 1999 for a more up-to-date look. | OMB Watch |
| Master Standard Report | This tool lets you search all of RTK NET's Web-searchable databases at once. | OMB Watch |
| Other RTK NET Standard Reports | There are individual tools for search and retrieval of a number of different EPA databases. | OMB Watch |
| LANDVIEW III provider | This program lets you obtain a free copy of EPA's LANDVIEW III mapping program along with street-level data for one county in the United States. | OMB Watch |
| TSCA Electronic Submission Demo | Made for Unison Institute, this was a set of two programs that allowed users to submit TSCA 12(b) and health study data to the EPA through a Web form. Once a working prototype was developed, the project was turned over to an EPA contractor. | U.S. EPA |
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