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March 2009

Tips for Pollution Prevention (PDF) (2 pp, 218K, About PDF)

February 2009

Comments sought on Promoting Pollution Prevention to Achieve Sustainability: A Strategic Plan for the US EPA's Pollution Prevention Program, 2009-2014 (PDF) (45 pp, 445K, About PDF) by March 31, 2009.

December 2008

Evaluation of EPA Efforts to Integrate Pollution Prevention Policy throughout EPA and at Other Federal Agencies (PDF) (124 pp, 590K, About PDF)

November 2008

• 2008 P2 Grant Program summaries now available.

• Evaluation of EPA Efforts to Integrate Pollution Prevention Policy throughout EPA and at Other Federal Agencies (PDF) (124 pp, 590K, About PDF)
This report provides a detailed look at EPA's efforts to weave pollution prevention into the major activities of the Agency's programs, and elsewhere in government. The report tracks P2 progress over the past two decades, and includes recommendations for more fully integrating P2 into the environmental challenges of coming decades.

• EPA is now accepting nominations for the 2009 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards. These awards recognize innovative chemical technologies that incorporate green chemistry into chemical design, manufacture and use -- and that have broad applications in industry. EPA's Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics wishes to encourage as many nominations as possible and would greatly appreciate it if you would post this information on your Web site and disseminate this information through your list serves.

Nominated technologies should reduce or eliminate the use or generation of hazardous substances from a chemical product or process. Any individual, group or organization, both nonprofit and for-profit, including academia and industry, may nominate a green chemistry technology for these awards. Self-nominations are welcome and expected. Each nominated technology must have reached a significant milestone within the past five years in the United States. Typically, awards are given each year in five categories: Greener Synthetic Pathways; Greener Reaction Conditions; Designing Greener Chemicals; Small Business; and Academic.

Nominations must be sent no later than Dec. 31 to be eligible for the 2009 awards, which will be presented on June 22, 2009.

September 2008

• P2 Week - In 2008 National Pollution Prevention Week is September 15-21, and this year's theme,"Pollution Prevention - Where Sustainable Practices Begin," reminds us that preventing pollution is at the heart of sustainability.

• P2 Grants Results Fiscal Year 2007 (PDF) (5 pp, 25.5K, About PDF)

July 2008