As a business owner, the federal government expects you to familiarize yourself with, and comply with, regulations designed to protect the environment.
This list of resources will help you learn more about the many environmental regulations that exist, and your role in compliance.
For Small Businesses
Provides the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gateway to environmental information and contacts for small businesses.
Gives access to the EPA, and facilitates communications between the small business community and the EPA. This Web site provides documents, guidance, and explanations of environmental regulations provided by the Small Business Ombudsman.
Lists answers to frequently asked questions about complying with environmental regulations enforced by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Provides information about the RFA/SBREFA.
Contains information on Small Business Compliance with the Environmental Statutes and the Compliance Incentives.
Helps small businesses access environmental compliance and pollution prevention information.
General Reference
Provides a compliance assistance web portal that includes resources, tools and guides to help businesses comply with environmental regulations.
Offers reference and legal resources, data models and reports, and compliance contacts.
Supplies a directory of state contacts to help industry comply with environmental regulations.
Links to information about environmental test methods and guidelines.
Provides information on environmental regulations as they relate to individual environmental topics.
Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement
Provides a set of compliance resources, enforcement tools and incentives to help businesses comply with environmental regulations.
Gives a summary and detailed information about an entity's compliance and enforcement status and history.
Summarizes EPA's compliance monitoring methods and programs.
Lists answers to frequently asked questions about EPA's compliance monitoring under the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, FIFRA, and the Toxic Substance Control Act.
Provides information on Compliance Incentives, a set of policies and programs that eliminate, reduce or waive penalties under certain conditions for business, industry, and government facilities which voluntarily discover, promptly disclose, and expeditiously correct environmental problems.
Covers audit policy self-disclosures.
Industry and Sector Information
Gives access to centers, sponsored by the EPA, that provide comprehensive, easy-to-understand environmental compliance information, tools and best practices advice targeted specifically to industry sectors.
Offers a directory of compliance assistance resources covering specific industry sectors.
Provides information to specific business sectors on the environmental statutes and regulations that affect businesses within their field.
Covers regulations that require manufacturers and processors of existing chemicals to test their chemicals for health and environmental effects.
Supplies a fact sheet that delineates the partnership between the dry cleaning industry and EPA, and gives basic facts about the environmental impact of the chemicals involved in the process, as well as information about chemical alternatives.
Provides clear guidance on how to comply with environmental regulations.
Offers compliance and sustainability resources for retail businesses to help meet regulatory obligations and reduce environmental impacts. This site includes freight transportation, waste management, product selection, facility management and construction of new facilities.
