External News/Events

EPA Welcomes Input on Technical Documents for Cleaner Construction Materials and Shares Action Plans for 2025.

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Releases New Program Name, EPA C-MORE (Construction Material Opportunities to Reduce Emissions) Program Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is calling for stakeholder input on draft technical documents for low embodied carbon construction materials and is sharing action plans for 2025. Newly renamed, EPA’s Construction Material Opportunities to Reduce Emissions (C-MORE) program is a … Read more

Optimizing Output – The Road to Energy Efficiency

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Join us on September 26th The University of Alabama Safestate and University of Alabama’s Industrial Assessment Center presents: Webinar Optimizing Output – The Road to Energy Efficiency September 26, 2024 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Central TimeRegister Here This 2-hour webinar is two talks in one! We will introduce strategies and methods to identify and realize energy savings and … Read more

Sept. 19 “P2 in Action” Webinar on Safer Choice.

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Sept. 19, 2024, 2-3 p.m. ET Join Jennie Romer, EPA’s Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pollution Prevention, for a webinar on how EPA’s Safer Choice program helps people find and have access to cleaning and other products made with safer ingredients and works in partnership with a broad range of stakeholders to prevent pollution. Speakers from industry, a … Read more

Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Program

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released a proposed update to the agency’s Recommendations of Specifications, Standards and Ecolabels for Federal Purchasing (Recommendations), which help federal government purchasers and other buyers utilize private sector standards and ecolabels to buy products that are more sustainable and climate-friendly and contain safer chemical ingredients. This is the first time in nearly … Read more