Absolutely! I use Scorecard to identify the major polluters in the various zip codes where I work and to identify what pollutants are being emitted and what their health effects are. I work in several polluted areas of Philadelphia and Scorecard is vital for me and community members I work with to get important info.
C. K., Clean Water Action
Philadelphia, PA

YES. As a small non-profit community environmental awareness organization with very limited resources scorecard is an invaluable tool for exposing the companies in our community that endanger the common good.
E.S., Citizens for Healthy Growth
Denton, TX

It is absolutely essential that Scorecard be maintained. While I understand the difficulties that involves, it is the only source of its kind. I have worked with the data, as well as with EnviroFacts extensively...My concern is that scorecard not reduce in size, but perhaps take on new aspects that integrate information in a way that it hasn't in the past. The databases and information now available are powerful (if somewhat unused) tools for both individuals and research efforts. I have also referred countless numbers of people and groups to your website. I've shown teachers how to use it with their students in schools, and community groups how to use it to get some leverage in their dealings with the government or polluters.
K.B., Sciencecorps.org

GHASP has found scorecard to be very helpful as a resource for air toxics information. Our report, Where Does Houston's Smog Come From? (http://www.ghasp.org/publications/smogsources/smogsources.htm), relied extensively on data found on that website as well as some of the underlying data obtained directly from the site's technical expert. No single site is comprehensive in its approach to providing data, but scorecard.org is definitely one of the most useful. We also use toxmap, iris, and epa's air data resources. What is most useful is finding all the different risk assessment data cataloged in one place (California, EPA, etc.). I don't think this is done anywhere else and it is incredibly useful when we need to obtain information on chronic health effects of an air toxic for the Nth time.
J.W., Galveston - Houston Association for Smog Prevention (GHASP)
Galveston, TX

I have and continue to use Scorecard.org on a regular basis and although the information can be gleaned from other web resources, Scorecard presents the data in a must easier to understand way, especially for laymen who need to know this sort of information quickly, without having to have a degree in web tech. While I am unsure what your assessment will reveal from others, I can tell you that it is a real asset for people like me, in the field, who must deal with toxics issues on a daily basis.
J.B., Valley Watch
Evansville, IN

Yes, I think it is very helpful to the public to galvanize opinion and to act. Information is power and unless people know what is in their neighborhoods, they cannot act.
K.S, Community Health Public Health Nursing Administration
Los Angeles, CA

Most definitely! Lasting change requires an informed community and local action. This site is extremely important to allow community members to exert pressure on local industry branches and local/state government to clean up their practices or enforce protections on the local level.
C. R., Sustain Environmental

I think so. The EPA website which provides much of the same information is more difficult to use, and does not do the same advocay work as Scorecard. Your 100,000 hits per month should tell you that you have a popular site.
L.V, United Auto Workers

Scorecard is an extremely user friendly website that provides important information for the public-information that isn't as easily accessible in a comprehensive manner elsewhere. Many of the community-based groups that Trust for America's Health works with find the site to be very useful in their work. I do believe that the site is still needed.
A.D., Trust for America's Health
Washington, DC

Uniequivocal,Yes! There is real value in having pollution data available for various jurisdictions. The Scorecard web site is an innovative tool that had an integral role in the development of similar sites such as PollutionWatch.org in Canada. The presence of these sites and the level of information provided on the site have elevated the discussions at the municipal, provincial/state, and federal levels on the need for strong legislative and policy programs to manage pollutants effectively. Further, the web site provides much needed support to the local groups that have limited resources to access such information in a useful way. Scorecard and similar web sites further entrench the need for enhancing "Right to Know" requirements on environmental matters.
F. L., Canadian Environmental Law Association