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Pollution Prevention Websites in EPA Back
to About P2 Office of
Pollution Prevention and Toxics
Pollution
Prevention Resource Exchange (P2Rx) provides information that is easily
accessible and easy to search, collect, synthesize and update technical information, and
it identifies experts and/or other sources of information.
The Pollution
Prevention Information Clearinghouse (PPIC)
is a free service providing
telephone reference and referral, distribution of EPA
documents, and a collection of P2 references available for interlibrary
loan. Call the Clearinghouse Hotline at 202-260-1023, fax at 202-260-4659
or send e-mail to ppic@epamail.epa.gov
for more information or to order documents.
Office of
Research and Development
EPA supports Enviro$en$e, an
electronic environmental communications network to share P2 information, case studies, and
technologies.
Office of
Pesticides
The Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program
is a voluntary program that forms partnerships with pesticide users to reduce health and
environmental risk and implement pollution prevention strategies.
Office of Air
The Climate Protection Division
(CPD) works to reduce greenhouse gases through energy-efficiency and
cost-effective partnerships with industries to achieve emission reductions. The
Clean Air Act, charges them to develop "nonregulatory strategies" for air
pollution prevention. EPA and the Department of Energy have developed voluntary
energy-efficiency specifications for a series of products. Manufacturers and
retailers of these products voluntarily join the ENERGY STAR Labeling Programs and place
the ENERGY STAR label on qualified products.
Global Warming
provides information about pollution prevention benefits of
using renewalble energy, solar, wind, biomass, hydro, and geothermal energy.
Office of Solid
Waste
The Waste
Minimization Program works on reducing waste at its source, before it is even
generated and through environmentally sound recycling. EPA and the public devote
billions of dollars annually to cleaning up contamination from past mis-management of
chemical wastes and properly managing wastes that are currently being generated.
Better efforts to reduce chemical waste before it is even generated would help lessen
these concerns, as well as the need for these public and private expenditures on cleanups
in the future.
Chemical
Emergency Preparedness and Prevention Office
EPA's CEPPO
provides leadership, advocacy, and assistance to: 1) Prevent and prepare for chemical
emergencies; 2) Respond to environmental crises; and 3) Inform the public about chemical
hazards in their community.
Office of
Enforcement and Compliance Assistance
The Compliance Assistance
Centers provide comprehensive compliance information targeted at specific
industry sectors. These "virtual" centers seek to promote linkages
between the small business community and their technical and regulatory providers.
Through plain-English guides, consolidated checklist and other tools, compliance
assistance centers seek to minimize waste production and maximize environmental
performance.
Office of
Policy
The
Small Business Gateway is a source of environmental information and contacts
for small businesses.
Office of
Reinvention
The Sustainable
Industry's mission is to help industry sectors improve environmental
performance while easing the costs and burdens of regulation.
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