The authors would like to thank the members of the working group who dedicated their time, insight, and expertise to shape the guidebook into a useful document for readers:

David Baker, Vice President, Environmental Affairs, Newmont Mining Corporation (retired)

Stephen D’Esposito, President, RESOLVE

David Dyjack, Executive Director, National Environmental Health Association

Aaron Wernham, CEO and President, Montana Healthcare Foundation

Shell staff also participated on the working group and provided input and feedback

Thank you to Shell Oil Company, Talisman Energy, and the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) for providing initial funding and support for the project. RESOLVE also matched these contributions with its own resources.

We also wish to express our deep appreciation for our expert advisors who reviewed the drafts and contributed invaluable comments that improved the quality of the guidebook:

George Blankenship, Blankenship Consulting LLC

David R. Brown, ScD, Public Health Toxicologist, Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project

John Corra, Director, Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (retired)

James Rada, Environmental Health Services Division Director, Jefferson County Public Health, Colorado

Thank you to the members of NACCHO and the participants in the June 11, 2015 review workshop at RESOLVE who took the time to review the draft and offer helpful comments and advice on making it a useful document. Many thanks to the NACCHO team who generously assisted with outreach, including Amy Chang, Jennifer Li, Katie Regan, and Andrew Roszak.

We greatly appreciate those who contributed to the guidebook by sharing advice and resources or by participating in interviews for the case studies: Karen Hacker, Allegheny County Health Department; Katrina Korfmacher, University of Rochester; Cat Lazaroff, Resource Media; Brett Martin, West Park Behavioral Health; Amy Mifflin, Global Collaborations, Inc.; Dennis Schmitz, PEC Safety; John Thorson, California Public Utilities Commission; Jack Ubinger, RESOLVE; and Bill Wren, University of Texas at Austin.

We are forever grateful to our talented and dedicated group of RESOLVE interns, volunteers, and staff, who made this project possible. Many thanks to Tunan Pan for her graphic design and formatting of the document and website; to Erica Bucki, Rachel Crow, Nicole Delcogliano, Brian Goodson, and Meg Perry for research and drafting case studies and other pieces of the guidebook; to Max Ciaglo, Sallie Dehler, Mariah Grubb, Nathan Hahn, Chrissie Juliano, David and Sharon Mason, Rachel Nelson, and Brendon Thomas for review, editing, formatting, and preparing the guidebook for release; to Maya Breitburg-Smith, Sallie Dehler, Kim Rustem, and Alisha Sunderji for assistance with outreach and the review workshop; and to Juliana Birkhoff, Andrew Krieger, and Matthew Mbasu for initial groundwork and research to set up the project. As RESOLVE has gathered information and resources from a variety of sources and perspectives for this guidebook, the points made may not necessarily reflect the views of those supporting this project.