About EPA
EPA Region 7 (Midwest)
Serving Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and nine Tribal Nations
Key Issues
- Agriculture in Region 7
- Bannister Federal Complex in Kansas City, Missouri
- Carter Carburetor Site in St. Louis, Missouri
- Clean, Green and Healthy Schools
- Cleanups
- Community Action for a Renewed Environment (CARE) Program
- Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) and CAFO inspections
- Doe Run Resources Corp. of St. Louis, Missouri
- Healthy Homes Community Initiative
- Historic Highways Project
- Joplin, Missouri, Tornado Response
- Kansas City, Missouri, Consent Decree - Clean Water Act
- Omaha Lead Superfund Site
- Solid waste issues in Region 7
- St. Louis Metropolitan Sewer District Settlement
- Strecker Forest Environmental Review in Wildwood, Missouri
- A-Z Index of all Region 7 topics
Regional Priorities
- Protecting and improving water quality across America's greatest watershed, the Missouri-Mississippi Basin
- Remedying a legacy of polluted soil by cleaning up neighborhoods in places as diverse as downtown Omaha and rural Missouri's Lead Belt
- Enforcing a new generation of air quality laws that encourage industrial and transport innovation by protecting public health
Region 7 News & Events
Events
- Water Security and Emergency Preparedness Conference and Exposition, Sept. 9-12, 2012, St. Louis, Missouri
- Kansas Housing Conference, Sept. 13, 2012, Manhattan, Kansas
- Sustainable Housing Conference, Sept. 20, 2012, Kansas City, Missouri
- America's Great Watershed Initiative Summit, Sept. 26, 2012, St. Louis, Missouri
- BioCycle Conference on Renewable Energy from Organics Recycling, Oct. 29, 2012, St. Louis, Missouri
- Trade Talk at the National Association of Farm Broadcasting Convention, Nov. 8, 2012, Kansas City, Missouri
- Kansas Association of Conservation Districts Convention, Nov. 19, 2012, Wichita, Kansas