Industrial processes and practices are a potential source of air and water pollution. EPA works with industry to reduce the amount of pollutants entering the environment by issuing permits that specify the levels of emissions allowed from each industrial process. A number of EPA programs provide guidance to small businesses on how to comply with federal regulations designed to reduce the amount of pollution they generate. EPA has a number of programs that help industry voluntarily reduce pollutants entering the air, land, and water in a cost-effective manner, and in some cases allow industry to design and test entirely new approaches for reducing pollution that go beyond existing environmental regulations

Recommended EPA Web pages

• Business Opportunities: Business and Industry
  Information and assistance for business and industries.
• Design for the Environment: Partnerships for a Cleaner Future
  The Design for the Environment Program helps businesses incorporate environmental considerations into the design and redesign of products, processes, and technical and management systems.
• Sector Strategies Program
  EPA's Sector Strategies Program seeks industry-wide environmental gains through innovative actions taken with a number of manufacturing and service sectors.