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Climate Change Partnership Programs
EPA has developed many voluntary partnership programs which target reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and provide useful information and tools to help you find innovative ways to reduce your carbon footprint.
This page provides information and links to both comprehensive guides and to individual partnership programs that cover many different sectors and types of activities.
Comprehensive Guides
Use this business guide (PDF) (50 pp, 1.9M) to help you identify those EPA Partnership Programs that make the most sense for your business and climate stewardship.
EPA has published this guide for local governments to implement their Climate Action Plans, including a comprehensive list of partnership programs and funding sources.
Partnership Programs
The AgSTAR program encourages the use of methane recovery (biogas) at confined animal feeding operations, reducing methane emissions while achieving other environmental benefits.
The Clean Energy-Environment State Partnership is a state-federal partnership that encourages states to develop and implement cost-effective clean energy and environmental strategies.
The goal of Clean up Clean Air is to encourage, facilitate, and support diesel emissions and greenhouse gas reductions technologies and practices at Superfund cleanup and redevelopment sites.
Climate Leaders is an EPA industry-government
partnership that works with companies to develop long-term comprehensive
climate change strategies. Partners set a corporate-wide greenhouse gas
(GHG) reduction goal and inventory their emissions to measure progress.
Contact Sarah Rizk
Combined Heat and Power Partnership is a voluntary program seeking to reduce the environmental impact of power generation by promoting the use of CHP, also known as cogeneration.
Contact Ray Saracino
ENERGY STAR is a joint program of EPA and the U.S. Department of Energy helping to save money and protect the environment through energy efficient products and practices.
The GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership is an EPA cooperative alliance with the supermarket industry and other stakeholders to promote advanced technologies, strategies, and practices that reduce refrigerant charges and emissions of ozone-depleting substances and greenhouse gases.
Across America, consumers
increasingly have a choice when they buy electricity. This now includes
the ability to buy green power, generated from renewable energy
sources. EPA's Green
Power Partnership recognizes organizations that
demonstrate environmental leadership by choosing green power.
Contact Sarah Rizk
EPA's
Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP) is an assistance and partnership program that promotes the use of landfill gas as a renewable, green energy source.
The Natural Gas STAR Program is a flexible, voluntary partnership that encourages oil and natural gas companies—both domestically and abroad—to adopt cost-effective technologies and practices that improve operational efficiency and reduce emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas and clean energy source.
Contact Ray Saracino
The Smart Growth Network helps communities find tools and information to expand their economies while protecting public health and the environment.
SmartWay is EPA's voluntary program for improving fuel efficency and reducing greenhouse gas and air pollution from the transportation sector.
Contact Trina Martynowicz
The WasteWise program targets the recycling and reduction of municipal solid waste and the purchase of green products, both of which can significantly reduce a community's carbon footprint.
WaterSense is a partnership program that makes it easy to save water and protect the environment by looking for the WaterSense label to choose quality, water-efficient products.
The West Coast Collaborative 
is a partnership between federal, state, and local governments focused on reducing diesel emissions along the Western United States.
