Jump to main content.
Research Programs
[
Air |
Soil |
Human Health |
Multimedia |
Water |
Waste |
Other ]
Air
- Biogenic Emissions Inventory System (BEIS)
- Environmental Monitoring for Public Access and Community Tracking EMPACT Site.
EMPACT has met its goal of helping communities bring people up-to-date local environmental information they can understand and use in making daily decisions about protecting their health and environment. People in over 160 communities in 39 States now have current and accurate information about environmental conditions in their communities. The Program ended in 2001. EMPACT grants are no longer available.
Top of page
Soil
- Ecotoxicology Database (ECOTOX)
The ECOTOX (ECOTOXicology) database provides single chemical toxicity information for aquatic and terrestrial life. ECOTOX is a useful tool for examining impacts of chemicals on the environment. Peer-reviewed literature is the primary source of information encoded in the database. Pertinent information on the species, chemical, test methods, and results presented by the author(s) are abstracted and entered into the database. Another source of test results is independently compiled data files provided by various United States and International government agencies.
- Environmental Monitoring Assessment Program (EMAP)
The Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) is a research program to develop the tools necessary to monitor and assess the status and trends of national ecological resources. EMAP's goal is to develop the scientific understanding for translating environmental monitoring data from multiple spatial and temporal scales into assessments of current ecological condition and forecasts of future risks to our natural resources.
Top of page
Human Health
- Particulate Matter (PM) Research - The information on these pages describes the research being done by EPA to better understand how particles are emitted into the air or how they form in the air from gaseous pollutants, how they are transported, how people are exposed to them, and the health effects people may experience after they breathe in these particles.
- Consolidated Human Activity Database (CHAD)
CHAD contains data obtained from pre-existing human activity studies that were collected at city, state, and national levels. CHAD is intended to be an input file for exposure/intake dose modeling and/or statistical analysis. CHAD is a master database providing access to other human activity databases using a consistent format. This facilitates access and retrieval of activity/and questionnaire information from those databases that EPA currently has access to-and-uses-in its various regulatory analyses undertaken by program offices.
- Human Exposure Database System (HEDS)
HEDS is the Human Exposure Database System. HEDS is an integrated database system that contains chemical measurements, questionnaire responses, documents, and other information related to EPA research studies of the exposure of people to Environmental contaminants.
- Regional Vulnerability Assessment (ReVA) Program
EPA's Regional Vulnerability Assessment (ReVA) program is an approach to regional scale, priority-setting assessment being developed by EPA's Office of Research and Development (ORD). ReVA will expand cooperation among the laboratories and centers of ORD, by integrating research on human and environmental health, ecorestoration, landscape analysis, regional exposure and process modeling, problem formulation, and ecological risk guidelines.
Top of page
Multimedia
- Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS)
The Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS), prepared and maintained by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA), is an electronic data base containing information on human health effects that may result from exposure to various chemicals in the environment. IRIS was initially developed for EPA staff in response to a growing demand for consistent information on chemical substances for use in risk assessments, decision-making and regulatory activities.
- Technology Transfer
- EPA's Environmental Technology Verification Program (ETV)
EPA's Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) Program develops testing protocols and verifies the performance of innovative technologies to problems that threaten human health or the environment. ETV was created to accelerate the entrance of new environmental technologies into the domestic and international marketplace.
Top of page
Water
- Environmental Monitoring Assessment Program (EMAP)
The Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) is a research program to develop the tools necessary to monitor and assess the status and trends of national ecological resources. EMAP's goal is to develop the scientific understanding for translating environmental monitoring data from multiple spatial and temporal scales into assessments of current ecological condition and forecasts of future risks to our natural resources.
- Interagency Coordinating Committee for U.S./Mexico Border Environmental Health Home Page
A series of studies is being conducted to evaluate the relationship between respiratory health effects and air polutants among residents of the Paso Del Norte airshed.
Waste
- Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation (SITE) Program
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation (SITE) Program was established by EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER) and the Office of Research and Development (ORD) in response to the 1986 Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act, which recognized a need for an “Alternative or Innovative Treatment Technology Research and Demonstration Program.” The SITE Program is administered by ORD National Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL) in the Land Remediation and Pollution Control Division (LRPCD), headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.
- STAR Grants Research on Mining Impact
Mining operations can have adverse environmental effects on surface water and ground water as well as fish and wildlife. Depending on the type of mining, wastes can include acid mine drainage, waste rock, slurries, spent ore, and mill tailings that can be the sources of suspended solids and heavy metals.
- STAR Grants Research on Urban Sprawl
Across the U.S., there is a growing concern that current development patterns are no longer in the long-term interest of our cities, existing suburbs, small towns, rural communities or wilderness areas. Communities are also questioning the economic costs of abandoning infrastructure in the city, only to rebuild it further out.
Top of page
Other links
- EPA Waste Topics Page
Nearly everything we do leaves behind some kind of waste. Households create ordinary garbage. Industrial and manufacturing processes create both solid waste and hazardous waste. EPA regulates all thiswaste under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). RCRA's goals are to: protect us from the hazards of waste disposal; conserve energy and natural resources by recycling and recovery; reduce or eliminate waste; and clean up waste which may have spilled, leaked, or been improperly disposed of. Hazardous waste comes in many shapes and forms. Chemical, metal, and furniture manufacturingare some examples of processes that create hazardous waste.
Top of page
Jump to main content.
![[logo] US EPA](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090115021948im_/http://www.epa.gov/epafiles/images/logo_epaseal.gif){kind=logo}