EPA has developed a number of partnership programs that reach out to business, industry, trade associations, communities, universities, and state and local governments. These programs are intended to help share the burden of achieving environmental goals such as conserving water and energy, reducing greenhouse gases, toxic emissions, solid wastes, indoor air pollution and pesticide risk. In return for their participation, the volunteering organizations receives technical expertise, guidance, publicity and the opportunity to exchange ideas with other cost-sharing partners. Examples of these programs include Partners for the Environment, WasteWise, Energy Star and Adopt Your Watershed!.

Recommended EPA Web pages

• Pay As You Throw
  PAYT breaks with tradition by treating trash services just like utilities. Households pay a variable rate depending on the amount of service they use.
• Product Stewardship
  Product stewardship challenges us to reduce the life cycle environmental effects of products.
• Center for Environmental Finance (CEF)
  Provides information about the Center for Environmental Finance.

Cost Sharing

Economic Revitalization

Environmental Accounting
Full Cost Accounting

Grants
Brownfield Grants, Cleanup Grants, Environmental Education Grants, Environmental Justice Grants, Performance Partnership Grants, Pollution Prevention Grants, Program Grants, Restoration Grants, Set Aside Grants

Performance Contracting

Regulatory Impact Analysis