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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Mission statement:

The mission of the United States Environmental Protection Agency is to protect public health and to safeguard and improve the natural environment - air, water, and land - upon which human life depends. EPA's purpose is to ensure that Federal environmental laws are implemented and enforced fairly and effectively; Environmental protection is an integral consideration in U.S. policies concerning economic growth, energy, transportation, agriculture, industry, international trade, and natural resources; National efforts to reduce environmental risk are based on the best available scientific information; All parts of society - business, state and local governments, communities, citizens - have full access to information so that they can become full participants in preventing pollution and protecting human health and the environment.

Contact Information:

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Ariel Rios Building, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W
Washington DC 20460

Internet address: http://www.epa.gov

Phone number(s):

(202) 272-0167
(800) 424-8802 Report spills
(800) 490-9198 (FOR ORDERING PUBLICATIONS ONLY)

Fax number:

(513) 489-8695

Related topics:

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• ASBESTOS
• ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
• FOOD POISONING
• LEAD POISONING
• PESTICIDES
• POISONING
• POLICY
• PUBLIC HEALTH
• SPANISH LANGUAGE MATERIALS
• TANNING

NWHIC record number O-135