I'm pleased to welcome you to the award-winning "Enviro.BLR.com" – the cornerstone of our mission to make 50-state environmental compliance, training, and management easier – 24/7!

In developing this site, we have dramatically improved your ability to cost effectively research and stay current with environmental developments nationally and in any state of interest. We've made our in-depth summaries of EPA and state regulatory requirements, written by environmental practitioners, covering more than 100 major environmental topics, searchable and convenient. Checklists, daily news, best practices reports, final and proposed federal and state full text rules… all these are at your fingertips -- accessible anytime and anywhere -- all you need is a browser. Some of the information is free, but to obtain the full benefits of the site, you'll need to subscribe and obtain a password.

Our goal is to provide you with the most comprehensive, state-specific environmental compliance, training and management information on the Web.

Valuable tools you'll find on this site include:

Environmental Regulatory Analysis
Plain-English, in-depth analysis of the differences between federal and state environmental laws and regulations on 100 key environmental topics, from RCRA, to hazardous air pollutants, to SPCC planning, to EHS Metrics! These summaries are updated on an ongoing basis.

Training Materials
Hundreds of prewritten and customizable PowerPoint presentations, point-and-click audio presentations, training plans -- plus outlines, handouts, quizzes -- to make your environmental training more manageable and interesting.

Environmental Compliance Time Savers
EPA Forms, customizable EHS plans, and environmental policies… countless documents to help you in your day-to-day environmental management activities.

Daily Regulatory Updates
Thousands of state and federal final regulations, proposed regulations, and notices, updated daily. Twice weekly emails keep you notified of developments that apply to you!

Daily Environmental News
Feature articles written by BLR's staff of environmental professionals, plus state and federal agency news, news briefs, and other articles, updated each day.

Material Safety Data Sheet Library
Search the hundreds of thousands of MSDSs for training and compliance for your workplace.

Ask the Experts!
Any subscriber can have an environmental question answered by our environmental analysts within one business day and access a Q & A database of numerous questions and answers, organized by topic.

EHS Forum
Share your ideas and pick your colleagues’ brains in our lively EHS Forum.

Plan Builder
Select from our library of environmental plans, customize them to suit your needs and assemble them into collections you can save in our personal library.

Quarterly Briefings
EHS & Your Business will help you inform senior management and other key decision makers in your company of business-critical developments in the field of environment, health, and safety (EHS). Each quarterly issue spotlights one strategic and timely issue as well as briefly highlights the most important EHS legal developments that could affect your business operations, EHS strategy, and EHS ROI.

My Enviro.BLR.com
In My Enviro.BLR, you can quickly locate and organize notes, bookmarks, and documents you saved for later use, as well as save your preferences on the site. My Enviro.BLR includes sections for My Documents and My Preferences.

I'm proud of the strong Editorial Department here at BLR. We're fortunate to have attracted an impressive complement of safety and environmental attorneys, practitioners, and analysts, all of whom are dedicated to ensuring you get the most up-to-date and accurate analysis of legal developments in the environmental field.

We at BLR, and I personally, take pride in the quality, accuracy, and value of the information provided to our customers, and we are constantly striving to better serve your needs. Should you have any suggestions about any of our products, or ideas for new products, or any other recommendation on how we can better serve you, please don't hesitate to contact me at pcarter-ward@blr.com.

We are proud of the new "Enviro.BLR.com," but we are always looking for ways to improve it. Please tell us what you think.

Sincerely,

Margaret A. Carter-Ward
Editor in Chief
Business & Legal Reports, Inc.