The Pew Environmental Health Commission issues America's Environmental Health Gap: Why the Country Needs a Nationwide Tracking Network.

Congress responds to the report from the Pew Commission by providing support for the development of a program to track environmental and health information. CDC received $17.5 million to create a nationwide program, including an information network.

Wisconsin receives funding to complete demonstration projects for several topics: childhood cancer, carbon monoxide and pesticide poisonings, and methylmercury exposure. 

Wisconsin receives funding to complete demonstration projects for two additional projects: neurodegenerative diseases (multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) and asthma.

Wisconsin receives funding to implement state and national Environmental Public Health Tracking networks. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defined in requests for application (RFA) the content areas that would appear in the initial release of the network as:  

Environment:
- Air-ozone, carbon monoxide, fine particulate matter, hazardous emission 
- Lead 
- Water

Health: 
- Asthma
- Birth Defects 
- Cancer 
- Heart Disease
- Reproductive Outcomes-births, fertility, birth weight, mortality, and sex ratio

Wisconsin launches an EPHT network with public and private portals. 

• Public portal: Displays data in aggregate form for the general public. 

• Private portal: Secured access for public health officials. It has additional tools to query data, and create maps and graphs.