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Stewardship Programs
Environmental Stewardship - Find EPA programs and other resources that help businesses, communities, government agencies, and individuals protect the environment and contribute to a sustainable future.
Voluntary Partnerships
Partners for the Environment - EPA reaches out to business, industry, trade associations, communities, universities, and state and local governments to solve environmental problems not generally addressed by laws and regulations, such as reducing greenhouse gases, encouraging the design and use of energy-efficient products and buildings, and encouraging green chemical product design and engineering.
Information Exchange Partnerships
Environmental
Information Exchange Network 
- An Internet and standards-based secure data exchange between partners,
built on the principles of integrated information, secure real-time
access, and the electronic collection and storage of accurate information.
The Exchange Network is made up of several components, including:
Central Data Exchange (CDX) - Enables fast, efficient and more accurate environmental data submissions from state and local governments, industry and tribes to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and participating program offices.
Other Partnerships
Binational.net -
The governments of Canada and the United States work cooperatively
towards restoring and maintaining the chemical,
physical
and biological
integrity of the waters of the Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem as stated
in the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA). Binational.net
is a collaboration between the United States Environmental Protection
Agency and Environment Canada, to provide a single window on joint
Great Lakes programs.
Industry Partnerships - Programs for business and industry to participate in or benefit from.
Labs for the 21st century - Is a voluntary program dedicated to improving the environmental performance of U.S. laboratories. The goal of the program is to encourage the development of sustainable, high-performance, and low-energy laboratories nationwide.
Metabolic Engineering Working Group - A new approach to understanding and using metabolic processes.
Midwest Partnership for Watershed Management Decision Support Systems - Develops, promotes, and disseminates web-based spatial decision support systems to help manage watersheds in the Midwest.
Multi-Agency Radiation Survey and Site Investigation Manual (MARSSIM) Workgroup - An ongoing, collaborative effort to bring consistency to the methods and processes used to demonstrate compliance with federal and state radiation regulations.
National Environmental Performance Partnership System - In 1995, State and EPA leaders recognized they needed to work together more effectively – as partners – to solve the nation's remaining environmental challenges.
OPPT and Tribal Environmental Network - The EPA's Office of Pollution and Prevention and Toxics (OPPT) has established a Tribal program to better communicate its programs and activities with Native American Indian tribes and to build more effective partnerships with Native American tribes in protecting and safeguarding the environment.
West Coast
Collaborative - a partnership
of federal, state, and local agencies, business and non-profits, that
are working to reduce air pollution emissions from diesel sources along
the West Coast.
