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EPA poster publicizing WaterSense products. WaterSense is a program sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), designed to encourage water efficiency in the United States through the use of a special label on consumer products. [1] The goal of this program is to protect the future of the U.S. water supply.
Standards for performing a Phase I site assessment have been promulgated by the US EPA [1] and are based in part on ASTM in Standard E1527-13. [ 2 ] If a site is considered contaminated, a Phase II environmental site assessment may be conducted, ASTM test E1903, a more detailed investigation involving chemical analysis for hazardous substances ...
US EPA Kansas City Science & Technology Center. LEED Gold certified building. Green building certification systems are a set of rating systems and tools that are used to assess a building or a construction project's performance from a sustainability and environmental perspective. [1]
EPA enforcement powers include fines, sanctions, and other measures. It delegates some permitting, monitoring, and enforcement responsibility to U.S. states and the federally recognized tribes. The agency also works with industries and all levels of government in a wide variety of voluntary pollution prevention programs and energy conservation ...
EPA created the database to provide a consistent approach to risk assessment practices across the various environmental laws that the Agency implemented and enforced. [citation needed] The program was created by the EPA in 1985. Initially, the goal of the program was to foster consistency's in the agency's evaluation of chemical toxicity. [1]
Since the mid-2000s, EPA's label for safer chemical products has been known as the Design for the Environment, or the DfE label. [2] After spending more than a year collecting ideas and discussing new label options with stakeholders, such as product manufacturers and environmental and health advocates, the EPA took its ideas to consumers and asked what worked best.
[69] [70] [71] Then-EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt signed a proposed rule to repeal the Clean Power Plan on that day. [72] New York's and Massachusetts’ attorneys general planned to sue the EPA over the repeal. [73] The EPA held a hearing, titled, "Proposal to Repeal the Clean Power Plan", on Nov. 28–29, 2017 in Charleston, West Virginia. [74]
The Clean Air Act of 1963 (CAA) was passed as an extension of the Air Pollution Control Act of 1955, encouraging the federal government via the United States Public Health Service under the then-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) to encourage research and development towards reducing pollution and working with states to establish their own emission reduction programs.