General and Other Environmental
Programs
Brownfields
encourages economic development and cooperation to prevent, assess, safely
clean up, and sustainably reuse brownfields.
Regional Brownfields Pages - links to
Brownfields programs in EPA's regional offices.
Cleaning Up
Our Land, Water and Air - EPA conducts and supervises investigation
and cleanup actions at a variety of sites. Cleanups may be done by EPA,
other federal agencies, states or municipalities, or the company or party
responsible for the contamination. Cleanup may also refer to the reuse
and redevelopment of sites, such as under the Brownfields initiative whereby
abandoned or under-used commercial and industrial sites are cleaned of
environmental contamination and reclaimed for productive use.
OPPT's Community Assistance
Program
community-based programs which are designed to address environmental problems
faced by communities by linking government with citizens and other stakeholders
to achieve long-term environmental preservation
Consumer Labeling Initiative
a voluntary, cooperative effort to foster pollution prevention and empower
consumer choice by the use of household consumer product labels.
EPA Customer Service Program
The CSP is designed to enable the agency and all who work at EPA to become
more customer focused.
EMPACT - Environmental Monitoring
for Public Access and Community Tracking (EMPACT) is a new approach to
working with communities to collect, manage, and present environmental
information, which aims to make timely, accurate, and understandable environmental
information available to millions of people in metropolitan areas across
the country so that communities and individuals can make informed, day-to-day
decisions about their lives.
Endocrine Disruptors Research
Initiative
provides coordination across the federal government related to examine
the hypothesis that there are chemicals present in the environment that,
by virtue of their ability to interact with the endocrine system, are
causing a variety of adverse health effects.
Energy Star Programs
works with the private sector developing cutting-edge, voluntary partnerships
for the production and use of energy-efficient equipment.
Envirofacts
EPA's Data Warehouse that integrates data extracted monthly from five
facility (or site) based EPA program systems.
Environmental Finance Program
seeks to lower costs, increase investment, and build capacity by creating
partnerships with state and local governments and the private sector to
fund environmental needs.
Environmental Information Exchange
Network Grant Program - The Exchange Network Grant Program provides
funding to States, Territories, and Federally Recognized Indian Tribes
to support the development of Environmental Information Exchange Network.
The Exchange Network is an Internet- and standards-based, secure information
systems network that supports the electronic collection, exchange,
and integration of high-quality data. Funding for the grant program
has been provided through annual congressional appropriations for the
EPA. Environmental
Justice Initiative
serves as a focal point for ensuring that communities comprised predominately
of minority or low income populations receive protection under environmental
laws.
Environmental Technology Verification
Program
verifies the performance of innovative technical solutions to problems
that threaten human health or the environment.
Lead Programs
information on all aspects of the federal lead poisoning prevention program,
with a special focus on the efforts within EPA's Office of Pollution Prevention
and Toxics (OPPT).
National Environmental Monitoring
Initiative
links large-scale survey information and remote sensing with ecological
process research at a network of multi-resource, intensive monitoring
areas.
National Environmental
Performance Track Program - Designed to recognize and encourage top
environmental performers -- those who go beyond compliance with regulatory
requirements to attain levels of environmental performance and management
that benefit people, communities, and the environment.
National Library Network
Program - this site offers information about the network of libraries
supporting the Agency mission and offers access to each library by their
location and collection strengths.
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.
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