Pollution Prevention Projects and Programs
Clean Energy -
Clean energy is energy derived from highly efficient, clean technologies,
including renewable, "green" power, and combined heat and power.
The EPA’s Clean Energy Programs are designed to improve the national
foundation of information on Clean Energy by creating networks between
the public and private sector, providing technical assistance, and offering
recognition of environmental leaders that adopt Clean Energy practices.
Climate Leaders Partnership
- Climate Leaders is a voluntary EPA industry-government partnership that
encourages companies to develop long-term comprehensive climate change
strategies.
Combined Heat and Power Partnership
- The electricity our homes, businesses, and factories use can be generated
in traditional power plants with relatively low efficiency and high emissions,
or it can be generated in smaller, distributed plants, at higher efficiencies
and lower emissions. Combined Heat and Power (CHP) is one form of distributed
generation that produces electricity at the point of use. CHP, or cogeneration,
is the sequential production of electricity and thermal energy from a
single fuel source. CHP is more efficient, cleaner, and reliable than
conventional central power plants. The CHP Partnership is a voluntary
program that seeks to reduce the environmental impact of power generation
by fostering the use of CHP in the commercial, institutional, and industrial
sectors.
Design for the Environment
(DfE) - helps businesses incorporate environmental considerations
into the design redesign of products, processes, and technical and management
systems.
Energy Star Programs
- works with the private sector developing cutting-edge, voluntary partnerships
for the production and use of energy-efficient equipment.
Environmentally Preferable
Purchasing Program - a federal-wide program that encourages and assists
Executive agencies to purchase environmentally preferable products and
services.
Enviro$en$e - this site provides a
single repository for pollution prevention, compliance assurance, and
enforcement information and data bases.
Green Power Partnership
- EPA’s Green Power Partnership is a voluntary program designed to
reduce the environmental impact of electricity generation by promoting
renewable energy. Commercial, nonprofit, and public organizations can
become Partners by committing to procure an amount of renewable energy
that is proportional to their annual electricity use. In return, EPA will
provide a network of providers and Partners, technical information, and
public recognition.
Lead Programs - information
on all aspects of the federal lead poisoning prevention program.
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 - contains information about ozone depletion, regulations
in the US designed to protect the ozone layer, and more.
Pay-As-You-Throw
Programs - provides information about paying for solid waste disposal
directly based on the amount of waste generated.
Pesticide Environmental
Stewardship Program - a voluntary program that forms partnerships
with pesticide users to reduce health and environmental risk and implement
pollution prevention strategies.
Pollution Prevention
- works for "source reduction," and other practices that reduce or eliminate
the creation of pollutants.
Presidential Green Chemistry
Challenge - this program seeks to promote pollution prevention and
industrial ecology through a partnership with the chemical industry.
Sunwise Schools Program -
This program provides materials to help teachers educate students in K-6
about protecting themselves from overexposure to the sun's ultraviolet
radiation.
Toxic Release Inventory
- the source of information about toxic chemicals that are being used,
manufactured, transported, or released into the environment.
Waste Minimization
- focuses on reducing the generation and subsequent release to the environment
of the most persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic chemicals in hazardous
wastes.
Waste
Prevention - offers information about efforts to reduce municipal
solid waste and examples of how source reduction efforts benefit business
and industry, governments, and consumers.
WasteWi$e Program - a voluntary
program that targets the reduction of municipal solid waste; waste that
would otherwise end up in a trash dumpster.
Water Efficiency -
EPA's water efficiency program, Water Alliances for Voluntary Efficiency
(WAVE), publications and related water conservation information.
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