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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or sometimes USEPA) is an agency of the federal government of the United States charged with protecting human health and with safeguarding the natural environment: air, water, and land. The EPA began operation on December 2, 1970, when it was established by then-President Richard Nixon. It is led by its Administrator, who is appointed by the President of the United States. The EPA is not a Cabinet agency, but the Administrator is normally given cabinet rank. The current Administrator (as of 2006) is Stephen L. Johnson.
Overview
The EPA comprises 18,000 people in headquarters program offices, 10 regional offices, and 17 laboratories across the country. The EPA employs a highly educated, technically trained staff, more than half of whom are engineers, scientists, and environmental protection specialists. A large number of employees are legal, public affairs, financial, and computer specialists.
The EPA provides leadership in the nation's environmental science, research, education, and assessment efforts. The EPA works closely with other federal agencies, state and local governments, and Native American tribes to develop and enforce regulations under existing environmental laws. The EPA is responsible for researching and setting national standards for a variety of environmental programs and delegates to states and tribes responsibility for issuing permits, and monitoring and enforcing compliance. Where national standards are not met, the EPA can issue sanctions and take other steps to assist the states and tribes in reaching the desired levels of environmental quality. The Agency also works with industries and all levels of government in a wide variety of voluntary pollution prevention programs and energy conservation efforts.
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Environmental Protection Agency - Current issues information (Sept. 11, anthrax), reports on 17 key environmental topics from air to water, kids page, laws/regulations and further official agency information. EPA protects human health by safeguarding the natural environment - air, water and land.
Administrator's Office - This office provides overall supervision of the Agency and is responsible directly to the President of the United States.
Careers, Internships and Scholarships - Information for students considering a career at EPA.
Clear Skies Initiative - Information on the Clear Skies Initiative including press releases, summary and text of the Act, and air quality and health benefits.
Meta Description: [ The Clear Skies Act is a mandatory program that would dramatically reduce power plant emissions of sulfur dioxide
(SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and mercury by setting a national cap on each pollutant. ]
Enviro$en$e - Common Sense Solutions to Environmental Problems - Repository for pollution prevention, compliance assurance, and enforcement information and databases. Included are pollution prevention case studies, technologies, points of contact, environmental statutes, executive orders, regulations, and compliance and enforcement policies and guidelines.
Meta Description: [ Enviro$en$e, part of the U.S. EPA's web site, attempts to provide a single repository for pollution prevention, compliance assurance, and enforcement information and databases. Included are pollution prevention case studies, technologies, points of contact, environmental statutes, executive order... ]
Envirofacts - This website provides access to several EPA databases that provide you with information about environmental activities that may affect air, water, and land in the United States.
Environmental Education Center - Site for teachers. Background information on environmental concepts, environmental curriculum resources and activities, workshops and conferences, environmental education grants and contacts.
Environmental Emergencies - Whom to notify and how to be prepared in case of an environmental emergency.
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program - EMAP - An EPA research program to develop the tools necessary to monitor and assess the status and trends of national ecological resources.
Environmental Quality - This EPA site is intended to be a single, convenient source of data on environmental conditions and trends in the U.S. Includes environmental atlas and community environmental profiles.
EPA Environmental Information Management System New Catalog Records - EIMS feed lists recent entries into this system that stores metadata for data sets, databases, documents, models, multimedia, projects, and spatial information from agency programs and investigations.
EPA Chemical Registry System - Provides the capability through keyword query options to access and retrieve the name, CAS Registry Number, source, and other information about chemicals of interest to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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EPA Environmental Accounting Project - Encourages and motivates business to understand the full spectrum of their environmental costs, and integrate these costs into decision making.
Meta Description: [ The objective of the Environmental Accounting Project is to encourage and motivate businesses to understand the full spectrum of their environmental costs, and integrate these costs into decision making. EPA's Environmental Accounting Project has partnered with the Tellus Institute to maintain an... ]
EPA Federal Register Environmental Documents - Contains the full-text of selected Federal Register documents that deal with environmentally-related issues.
Meta Description: [ Federal Register document ]
EPA Global Warming Site - Focuses on the science and impacts of global warming or climate change, and on actions by governments, corporations, and individuals that help address global warming issues. The site also features climate change related news, events, publications, reports, presentations, and links to other sites.
EPA History Office - Provides information in the form of documents, statistics, and other useful resources on the history of the EPA.
EPA Interpretive Documents Collection - Provides a central point of access to non-binding general policy, guidance, and interpretive documents that describe how the Agency intends to exercise its discretionary authority and explains what a statute or regulation means.
EPA Laboratories and Research Centers - link to specific labs and centers
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EPA Locator - On-line directory of employee's phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and mailing addressees.
EPA Mailing Lists - Information about lists providing news and announcements on a variety of environmental topics and workgroups.
EPA National Center for Environmental Innovation - Site contains information on how the EPA is using innovation to solve environmental problems and assures that the ideas are widely shared.
EPA: Clean School Bus USA - Information on EPA's program to reduce both children's exposure to diesel exhaust and the amount of air pollution created by diesel school buses.
Meta Description: [ Clean School Bus USA is a public-private environmental partnership that seeks to reduce children's exposure to air pollution from diesel school buses. ]
Explorers' Club - For children (ages 5-12). There are games, pictures, stories and other fun things.
Freedom of Information Act Information - How to request information from the U.S. EPA.
Meta Description: [ EPA's Freedom of Information Office. ]
Mid-Atlantic Integrated Assessment - MAIA is a comprehensive program to transfer research, monitoring, and assessment innovations to help managers in the Mid-Atlantic Region make responsible environmental management decisions.
Meta Description: [ MAIA is a research, monitoring, and assessment initiative. Its main goal is to develop high-quality scientific information on the condition of natural resources of the mid-Atlantic region of the eastern United States. ]
National Center For Environmental Research and Quality Assurance - Designed to give investigators easy access to EPA research funding opportunities and past and present research projects and programs.
Meta Description: [ Welcome to the home page of the National Center for Environmental Research (NCER) under EPA's Office of Research and Development (ORD). The NCER site has been designed to give investigators easy access to our research funding opportunities and our past and present research projects and programs. ]
National Environmental Publications Internet Site - NEPIS is a database of over 9,000 EPA documents that can be viewed online.
Office of Environmental Education - Works to provide members of the public with a wide variety of useful environmental education resources.
Meta Description: [ U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Environmental Education Web Site ]
Office of International Activities - Enlists the cooperation of other nations in solving environmental problems of concern to the United States.
Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation - Promotes innovation to achieve greater and more cost-effective public health and environmental protection.
Meta Description: [ EPA's Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation is the primary policy arm of EPA. We work with all other parts of EPA and the federal government to provide critical analytic and management support across three broad areas of Regulatory Management, Ecnomic Analysis, and Innovative Approaches. ]
Online Library System - The U.S. EPA Online Library System, OLS, allows you to search the holdings of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 28 libraries across the nation.
Meta Description: [ The EPA Online Library System allows you to search the holdings of EPA's 28 libraries across the nation. ]
Project XL - Pilot program that allows state and local governments, businesses and federal facilities to develop innovative strategies to test better or more cost-effective ways of achieving environmental and public health protection.
Regulatory Public Access System (RPAS) - Electronic docket system that provides access to collections of documents supporting Agency actions.
Science Advisory Board - Provides independent scientific and engineering advice to the EPA. SAB deals with risk assessment issues and the portion of risk management that deals with the technical issues associated with control options.
Meta Description: [ Science Advisory Board ]
Science Inventory - Searchable catalog of science activities and scientific and technical work products (for example, risk assessments, technical studies and guidance, and research.)
Small Business Gateway - Gateway to environmental information and contacts for small businesses.
U.S. EPA Mercury Web Site - Information about mercury and what's being done to protect your health.
US EPA - Methane to Markets Partnership - The Methane to Markets Partnership promotes profitable opportunities for reducing emissions of methane (an important greenhouse gas) around the world.
Meta Description: [ The Methane to Markets Partnership promotes profitable opportunities for reducing emissions of methane (an important greenhouse gas) around the world. ]
US EPA Office of Civil Rights - Information on EPA's equal employment opportunity (EEO) counseling and complaint process, and employment special emphasis programs. Also describes the Title VI administrative complaint process, investigations and disparate adverse impact methodologies.
Meta Description: [ Civil Rights ]
US EPA Rules and Regulations - Find out about regulations and proposed rules, codified regulations, current legislation, and Laws.
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