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National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week
EPA efforts to reduce children's lead exposures and prevent lead poisoning include a wide range of activities. Learn more about what EPA is doing and how you can help protect children. National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week is October 21-28.
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Learn more about Lead Poisoning Prevention Week
Hurricane Michael Response
EPA is working with other federal, state, and local responders to prepare for and recover from hurricanes.
Hurricane Michael update
Información sobre huracanes en español
Sector Snapshots
A new, online app from the Smart Sectors program lets users visualize 20 years of environmental and economic performance by sector.
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Affordable Clean Energy
EPA announces the proposed ACE Rule, which sets greenhouse gas guidelines for states to develop plans to address emissions from existing coal-fired power plants.
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Learn more about ACE

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National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week

Hurricane Michael Response

Sector Snapshots

Affordable Clean Energy

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Key Topics

News

Your Community

Return toCore Mission

CooperativeFederalism

Rule of Law and Process

Multilingual Links

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