Over one-third of the food produced in the United States is never eaten, wasting the resources used to produce, transport, process and distribute it – and much of it is sent to landfills, where it breaks down and generates methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. EPA recently released two new reports quantifying methane emissions from landfilled … Read more
Join the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on January 25, 2024, at 2:00 p.m. ET for a webinar on the Agency’s October 2023 per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) reporting rule under Section 8(a)(7) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The reporting rule is a statutory requirement under the FY2020 National Defense Authorization Act that requires all … Read more
EPA Proposes Updates to Strengthen the Safer Choice Standard Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced proposed updates to the Safer Choice Standard, which identifies the requirements that products and their ingredients must meet to earn EPA’s Safer Choice label or Design for the Environment (DfE) logo. The Agency is requesting public comments on … Read more
One Health is a holistic approach to advancing human well-being that recognizes that the health of people is closely connected to the health of animals and our shared environment: when we protect one, we protect all. EPA has been working with the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (AFWA), the Association of State and Territorial … Read more
EPA Announces Winners of the 2023 Green Chemistry Challenge Awards Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing the winners of the 2023 Green Chemistry Challenge Awards for new and innovative green chemistry technologies. Through the design of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the generation and use of hazardous substances, this … Read more