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It's not always easy to know where to get your questions answered. Here are our best information resources to help you find answers to your questions.
Find people
- EPA Employee directory
- The Region 5 Experts List : Find an expert on a particular topic and contact that person directly. You can search on a topic or someone's name.
- If you are a reporter, contact the Region 5 Media Relations staff.
- Region 5 Speakers Bureau : Request a speaker or science fair judge.
Send us questions or comments
- You can contact us by phone, fax, or e-mail. Use our online comment form to ask your question by e-mail. We'll forward it to the appropriate Region 5 staff person.
- Call the Region 5 Environmental Hotline at 800-621-8431 from 8:15am - 4:45pm Central time (312-886-2395 for callers outside IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, and WI) You can also send email to r5hotline [at] epa <dot> gov
- Maybe we've seen your question before; check our Frequent Questions (FAQs).
- There's a national list of hotlines
- Report an environmental violation
- Submit a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request
- Current public comment periods
- Public notices of proposed penalty orders or complaints for penalties
Find information
- Print and electronic publications.
- See if there are any meetings scheduled
- Library services
- Educational resources including Region 5 Environmental Education
- Visit the national EPA Information Sources page
- Major environmental laws
- Databases and software
- Glossary, abbreviations, acronyms
- USA.gov - the U.S. Government's official Web portal, lets you search all government sites at once
- GobiernoUSA.gov - Información oficial en español
Top things that you might think you'd find at US EPA...
- Endangered species - US Fish and Wildlife Service
- Energy conservation - Energy Star or Energy Information Administration
- Alternative energy sources - US Department of Energy
- Trees - USDA Forest Service
- Weather - see the National Weather Service
- EPA does work with oceans and marine ecosystems, but so do NASA and NOAA
- Noise complaints are handled at the local level of government
- Trash disposal and recycling programs are managed at the local level of government
- Burning trash is handled at the local level of government
- Labeling of products as recycled: the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regulates this