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
- 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
- National Beef Leathers (Prime Tanning) Sludge Investigation
- Omaha Lead Superfund Site
- Recovery Act projects in Region 7
- 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
