About EPA

This page shows all of the pages at www.epa.gov that are tagged with About EPA.
  • Access to EPA Servers and TSSMS Accounts

    How to access EPA servers from outside and inside the EPA network.

  • January—March 2025 Newsletter

    January—March 2025 Newsletter: Fires in California, A New Leader Tours the Pacific Southwest, and More.

  • Basic Information about Continuous Improvement at EPA

    Basic information and recent efforts about ELMS and Lean at EPA.

  • Continuous Improvement

    How EPA is using Lean principles and process to identify and solve problems and sustain improvements.

  • EPA Intranet Search

    Learn how to search better using the new intranet search engine, Lucidworks Fusion. Includes search features, search help and guidance for area search forms.

  • Using Segments in GA4

    Segments allow you to quickly access data for a predefined set of Sessions or Users, such as government or education users, or sessions in a particular state. You can then apply this segment to any report within the GA4 exploration.

  • Using Filters in GA4

    How you can use filters to narrow a GA4 exploration down to web area data, telling GA what URLs or page names to include and what to exclude, and lists of specific URLs.

  • Page Traffic Analysis (GA4)

    Use Google Analytics to find out what page users most frequently click your Contact Us link from, or which links on a page are popular or unpopular. You can also track clicks on external (non-epa.gov) links.

  • Dimensions and Metrics Used in GA4

    Dimensions are descriptive attributes, the items being measured, and metrics are the numerical values that provide data about those dimensions. See a list of all dimensions and metrics, and a shorter table of those you will most commonly use in GA reports.

  • Google Analytics 4 : Data and Structure

    How google analytics works using page tagging instead of log file analysis.

  • Widget Guidance

    Guidance on how to create, get approval for, set up and terminate widgets on pages created outside of Drupal.

  • Remove an Alias on www3

    For www3 content only: information about alias selection, creation, removal and use in web pages outside Drupal.

  • EPA Search Engine Terminology Files

    Links to terminology files, dictionary, thesaurus, stemmer, blacklist, autocomplete, etc. used by the EPA search engine.

  • Hiding Web Pages from Search

    For content not in the WebCMS or the Intranet CMS, content owners can hide content from the search engine using .noindex files. The URLs will still work, but they will not show up in search results.

  • Get Started With Web Content

    Resources to introduce you to content development principles and guidance, including checklists and content approval, to Drupal WebCMS where all www content is created and maintained, and the Static Web Server which is only for legacy www3 content.

  • Publishing Information about Conferences, Including Registration Information

    You have different options for how and where you post registration and other information about conferences, whether attendees must submit credit card information or not.

  • www.epa.gov Snapshots

    An index page for www.epa.gov Snapshots, including links to all snapshots saved every four years.

  • Web Standard: Web Forms

    Webforms created for users to send questions or comments, register or submit registration information, or request software; must meet usability standards.

  • Web Standard: Videos

    No videos will be uploaded to Drupal WebCMS; all videos will be posted on EPA's YouTube channel. This includes webinars, trainings, tutorials and demos. For specific standards and guidance, see the links to the Office of Multimedia.

  • Web Standard: Cards

    A card acts as an entry point to more detailed information on a topic and several different styles are available as part of EPA's look and feel.