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Acid Rain Program
The overall goal of the Acid Rain Program is to achieve significant environmental and public health benefits through reductions in emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO 2) and nitrogen oxides (NO x), the primary causes of acid rain. To achieve this goal at the lowest cost to society, the program employs both traditional and innovative, market-based approaches for controlling air pollution. In addition, the program encourages energy efficiency and pollution prevention.
Air and Radiation
Air pollution, clean air, and air quality information is provided by the U.S. EPA's Office of Air and Radiation (OAR). OAR develops national programs, technical policies, and regulations for controlling air pollution and radiation exposure. OAR is concerned with pollution prevention, indoor and outdoor air quality, industrial air pollution, pollution from vehicles and engines, radon, acid rain, stratospheric ozone depletion, and radiation protection.
AirNow
Information about current air quality, how you can make a difference, forecasts of air quality, and forecasts of ozone levels.
American Heritage Rivers Initiative
The American Heritage Rivers initiative is an innovative response to help river communities that seek federal assistance and other resources to meet some tough challenges. Without any new regulations on private property owners, state, local and tribal governments, the American Heritage Rivers initiative is about making more efficient and effective use of existing federal resources, cutting red-tape, and lending a helping hand.
Asbestos Program
The EPA provides various paths for the public to access information about asbestos. On this website, you may access general information about asbestos and its health effects. EPA has also developed a list of commonly used Asbestos acronyms. You may also read about what to do if you suspect asbestos in your home. If you wish to obtain more information on asbestos, EPA maintains a listing of asbestos information resources available to the public. If you would like to locate an asbestos contact, EPA maintains a listing of state and federal asbestos contacts. If you would like to learn more about the laws and regulations that govern asbestos, EPA maintains a listing of the laws and regulations applicable to asbestos.
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Brownfields Program
General information about brownfields and information related to brownfields such as news, events, pilot programs, grants, laws, regulations, cleanups, publications, and much more.
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Children's Health Protection
Tips to protect children's health in both Spanish and English.
Clean Energy
Programs to encourage the development of new power sources, saving natural resources, and helping to ensure that the quality of our environment is preserved.
Clean Lakes Program
Comprising 39.9 million acres, lakes and reservoirs are a major water resource in this country. Freshwater inland lakes and reservoirs provide our nation with 70% of its drinking water and supply water for industry, irrigation, and hydropower. Lake ecosystems support complex and important food web interactions and provide habitat needed to support numerous threatened and endangered species. Lakes are also the cornerstone of our nation's 19 billion dollar freshwater fishing industry, form the backbone of numerous State tourism industries, and provide countless recreational opportunities
Climate Leaders Partnership
Climate Leaders is a new voluntary EPA industry-government partnership that encourages companies to develop long-term comprehensive climate change strategies. Many corporations are already making great strides in reducing their greenhouse gases (GHGs) emissions through participation in EPA programs like ENERGY STAR ®, WasteWise and the Green Power Partnership. Climate Leaders gives these companies, and others, the opportunity to take their climate commitment one step further. Partners set a corporate-wide GHG reduction goal and inventory their emissions to measure progress. By reporting inventory data to EPA, partners create a lasting record of their accomplishments. Partners also identify themselves as corporate environmental leaders and strategically position themselves as climate change policy continues to unfold.
Climate Protection
Works with businesses, organizations, governments, and consumers to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gases that contribute to global climate change by promoting greater use of energy efficient and other cost-effective technologies. We also work to improve understanding of the more potent greenhouse gases and options for sequestering carbon dioxide.
Coastal and Ocean Programs
Information and programs for helping to protect and clean these resources.
Combined Heat and Power Partnership
A voluntary program that seeks to reduce the environmental impact of power generation by fostering the use of cogeneration.
Community-Based Environmental Programs, OPPTs
Information on chemicals and their effects, understanding and using environmental data, grants and forum for community involvement in controlling and eliminating pollution.
Compliance and Assistance Programs
Information and assistance on becoming EPA compliant.
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Design for the Environment (DfE)
The DfE program is one of EPA's premier partnership programs, working with individual industry sectors to compare and improve the performance and human health and environmental risks and costs of existing and alternative products, processes, and practices. DfE partnership projects promote integrating cleaner, cheaper, and smarter solutions into everyday business practices.
Drinking Water and Ground Water Protection Programs
Information on programs for water quality, source water protection, drinking water standards, public drinking water systems, and control of underground injection.
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ENERGY STAR ® Programs
ENERGY STAR offers businesses and consumers energy efficient solutions - helping to save money while protecting the environment for future generations.
Envirofacts
Environmental information.
Environmental Leadership
The National Environmental Performance Track is designed to motivate and reward top environmental performance. Currently, the program has nearly 300 members. As part of membership in Performance Track, participants receive a range of incentives to motivate further improvements
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP)
The Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) is a research program to develop the tools necessary to monitor and assess the status and trends of national ecological resources. EMAP's goal is to develop the scientific understanding for translating environmental monitoring data from multiple spatial and temporal scales into assessments of current ecological condition and forecasts of future risks to our natural resources.
Environmental Technology Verification (ETV)
EPA's Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) Program develops testing protocols and verifies the performance of innovative technologies to problems that threaten human health or the environment. ETV was created to accelerate the entrance of new environmental technologies into the domestic and international marketplace.
Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Program
Product and service purchasing information.
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Facility Identification Initiative
The Facility Registry System (FRS) is a centrally managed database that identifies facilities, sites or places subject to environmental regulations or of environmental interest. FRS creates high-quality, accurate, and authoritative facility identification records through rigorous verification and management procedures that incorporate information from program national systems, state master facility records, data collected from EPA's Central Data Exchange registrations and data management personnel. The FRS provides Internet access to a single integrated source of comprehensive (air, water, and waste) environmental information about facilities, sites or places.
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Global Warming Program
Information about the climate, emissions, impacts, actions, resources, and news.
Grants Information
Protecting public health and the environment through sound business grants management and effective integrity programs.
Green Communities
Assistance kit for becoming a green community.
Green Power Partnership
EPA’s Green Power Partnership is a new voluntary program designed to reduce the environmental impact of electricity generation by promoting renewable energy. The Partnership will demonstrate the advantages of choosing renewable energy, provide objective and current information about the green power market, and reduce the transaction costs of acquiring green power.
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Human Resources and Organizational Services
The Office of Human Resources and Organizational Services (OHROS) provides supervision and direction to, and serves as the steward for the Agency’s human resource programs, organizational services, and other designated management activities. Specifically, OHROS performs the following functions:
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Indoor Air Quality
Information about indoor air quality and tools for improving it.
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Lead Programs
Information about lead, lead hazards, and provides some simple steps to protect your family.
Long Island Sound Study
The Long Island Sound Study (LISS) is a cooperative effort involving researchers, regulators, user groups and other concerned organizations and individuals. These people are working together to protect and improve the health of the Sound by implementing the Sound's Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan completed in 1994.
Landfill Methane Outreach Program
U.S. EPA's Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP) is a voluntaryassistance and partnership program that promotes the use of landfill gas as a renewable energy source. By preventing emissions of methane - a powerful greenhouse gas - through the development of landfill gas energy projects, LMOP helps businesses, states, and communities protect the environment and build a sustainable future.
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Mixed Waste Program
Information and Q&A about mixed waste.
Mobile Sources
Information about pollution from motor vehicles, engines, and the fuels used to operate them
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National Environmental Monitoring Initiative
The National Environmental Monitoring Initiative is an initiative in progress – one that is bringing together environmental monitoring and research organizations from across the United States. It links large-scale survey information and remote sensing with ecological process research at a network of multi-resource, intensive monitoring areas. The result will be greater understanding of what controls ecosystem health at the regional scale, where resource management decisions are made.
National Estuary Program
Information about the nation's estuaries and their relation to pollution.
National Library Network
Information about the 28 libraries that make up the EPA National Library Network.
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Oil Spill Program
Information about the U.S. EPA's program for preventing, preparing for, and responding to oil spills that occur in and around inland waters of the United States.
Ozone Layer Protection Program
Information about the science of ozone depletion, information about the regulatory approach to protecting the ozone layer, and information on alternatives to ozone-depleting substances, as well as information on a number of other topics.
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Pollutant Load Allocation (Total Maximum Daily Loads)
Maps and summary of the total maximum daily loads of pollution.
Pollution Prevention
General information about Pollution prevention practices, describes the array of Pollution prevention programs and initiatives administered by EPA and other organizations, and provides contacts for further information.
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Recycling of Electronics
Information about how and where you can recycle your electronics.
Recycling Non-Hazardous Waste
Information and publications about recycling programs.
Research and Development
Information about research and development in environmental programs.
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SunWise Schools Program
The SunWise School Program is an environmental and health education program that aims to teach children and their caregivers how to protect themselves from overexposure to the sun. Through the use of classroom-based, school-based, and community-based components, SunWise seeks to develop sustained sun-safe behaviors in schoolchildren.
Superfund Information
Information about Superfund sites.
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Toxic Release Inventory
Publicly available EPA database that contains information on toxic chemical releases and other waste management activities reported annually by certain covered industry groups as well as federal facilities.
Transportation and Air Quality
Protects public health and the environment by controlling air pollution from motor vehicles, engines, and the fuels used to operate them, and by encouraging travel choices that minimize emissions.
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Underground Injection Control (UIC) Program
The UIC Program works with state and local governments to overseeunderground injection of waste in order to prevent contamination of drinking water resources.
Underground Storage Tanks (UST)
Information about cleanup of, and prevention of leaks from underground tanks.
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Waste Minimization
Waste Minimization Program works with industrial organizations, government agencies, and communities to find ways to help individual companies reduce the amount of waste they generate, particularly if the wastes contain one or more Waste Minimization Priority Chemicals (WMPCs).
Waste Prevention
Information about waste prevention and its benefits.
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