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  • Reduce Your Exposure to Wildfire Smoke

    Reducing exposure to wildfire smoke is important for everyone's health—especially children, older adults, and people with heart or lung diseases.

    Wildfires and Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)
  • Community Change Grants Selections Announced

    EPA has announced the selection of an initial $325 million in Community Change Grants to help disadvantaged communities tackle environmental and climate justice challenges.

    Learn more about Community Change Grants
  • CPRG Selected Applications Announced

    EPA announces selected applications for $4.3 billion dollar Climate Pollution Reduction Grants general competition to fund measures tackling climate change, improving air quality, and advancing environmental justice.

    View selected recipients
  • Fifth Edition of the Climate Change Indicators Report

    EPA has released the fifth edition of its Climate Change Indicators in the United States Report. Dive in to see updated data, learn about connections, and review two brand new indicators to the collection.

    Read the report
  • Careers at EPA

    Science Careers at EPA

    From tackling the climate crisis to advancing environmental justice, what happens here changes the world. At EPA, you can be a changemaker.

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  • Investing in America

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    EPA has an opportunity to move further and faster than ever before to build a healthier and brighter future for people and the planet.

    Learn how EPA is investing in America
  • Applying for EPA Grants

    Discover EPA-hosted webinars to learn how to apply for, or manage an EPA grant.

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  • Find Investments in Your Community

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    Discover the historic investments made in the health, equity, and resilience of American communities through Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding and the Inflation Reduction Act.

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  • Climate Change

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    Understanding and addressing climate change is critical to EPA's mission of protecting human health and the environment. Find resources and accurate information about climate change.

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    Learn how water gets to your drinking water tap every day, the different types of public water systems, and other basic information about drinking water safety.

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  • Cape Rēinga in New Zealand

    Why Stories Matter

    Years spent observing various cultures threaded through multiple languages gave me my biggest gift; I can absorb a person’s voice into my pen and onto their paper.

    • Date: July 24, 2024
    • By: Sukayna Al-Aaraji
  • Smoke plumes over Missoula, MT

    EPA's Research Efforts to Protect Public and Environmental Health from Wildland Fire Smoke

    Stay informed, stay prepared, and we can mitigate the effects and challenges of wildland fire smoke together.

    • Date: July 22, 2024
    • By: Jason Sacks, Sarah Coefield

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  • Gebbers Farms pays $17,000 penalty for failing to protect workers from pesticides

  • EPA releases 2-year milestone evaluations on Chesapeake Bay cleanup effort; cites challenges, progress and potential

  • New Hampshire celebrates $31 million for 110 new clean school buses across nine school districts

  • EPA celebrates $210,000 in support of water quality monitoring at beaches in Rhode Island

  • EPA Announces $188.3 Million WIFIA Loan to Upgrade and Expand Water Services in Central Florida


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