Region 8
Serving Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming and 27 Tribal Nations
Children's Environmental Health Hazards
National Information
Regional Information
Protecting children's health from environmental pollutants has been a major concern for EPA. An Agency-wide policy to ensure that environmental health risks of children are explicitly and consistently evaluated in our risk assessments, risk characterizations, and environmental and public health standards was established in 1995. In 1996 a National Agenda to Protect Children's Health From Environmental Threats that expanded the Agency's activities aimed at ensuring a consistent approach to improving risk assessments to specifically address children's risks was adopted.
EPA is committed to protecting all children from environmental health threats by fully considering risks to children and addressing those risks, where appropriate, in national health-based environmental standards.