Learn the Issues

Complete Lesson 1: Environmental Health 101

Introduces broad concept and why children may be particularly at risk from environmental health hazards by focusing on the differences between adults and children, highlighted by examining the four things all need to survive (air, water, food, shelter).

Complete Lessons 1-9: Children's Health Curriculum

These lessons introduce the broad concept of environmental health and why children may be particularly at risk from environmental health hazards.

EPA Places Restrictions on Pesticide Use to Protect Four Endangered and Threatened Species

EPA Announces Updated Schedule, Completes Safety Assessments and Decisions for Hundreds of Pesticides to Address Risk and Ensure Safe Pesticide Use

EPA is releasing the registration review schedule for the next four years through fiscal year 2025. While EPA has historically updated this schedule once each year, it will be updated on a quarterly basis going forward.

Student Curriculum Downloads

Downloads for the student curriculum.

Children’s Environmental Health Disparities: Hispanic and Latino American Children and Secondhand Smoke

Secondhand smoke contains more than 4,000 chemicals, many cancer-causing. Especially bad for children because their bodies are developing, and because they breathe at higher rates than adults do, and it is a major trigger for asthma.

Office of Children's Health Protection: Publications Catalog (August 2010)

2010 list of all materials from the EPA Office of Children's Health Protection. Categories: general environmental health, climate change, air quality, pesticides, water, fish consumption, schools, lead.

Children’s Environmental Health Disparities: Black and African American Children and Asthma

The burdens of asthma fall more heavily on Black children: in 2001-2005, Black children, regardless of family income, reported higher rates of asthma. It is twice as likely to hospitalize and four times as likely to kill them, compared to White children.

Children’s Environmental Health Disparities: Hispanic and Latino American Children and Asthma

Racial and ethnic minorities and poor children may be exposed to more pollution and thereby more health risks. Puerto Rican children have the highest rates of asthma at 20%, out of an overall 8% of Hispanic children. You can take protective actions.

Children’s Environmental Health 2005 - A Summary of EPA Activities

Children may not be sufficiently protected by regulatory standards set based on risks to adults. EPA has forged partnerships and taken steps to protect children's health from contaminants and pollutants in air, drinking water, and food.

Healthy Home Action Brochure (English)

Tips to save energy, save money, protect inhabitants, and make your home more environmentally-friendly. Information on mold, radon, carbon monoxide, asthma/allergies, secondhand smoke, contaminants, lead, mercury, and pesticides.

Climate Change and Children's Health

In 2007, sixteen percent of children lived in counties exceeding the annual fine particulate matter standard. Exposure to higher levels of ambient particulate matter and ozone may increase school absences and hospital admissions due to respiratory illness.

Protecting Children's Health October 2019 Booklet

Protecting Children's Health October 2019 booklet

Example of Gold Seal Letter

In response to the Covid-19 public health emergency, the Agency implemented full-time telework, which made providing the traditional gold seal letter with an embossed seal impractical.

EPA Publishes Memorandum Containing Revised Framework and Response to Comments to Improve Pest Resistance for Plant-Incorporated Protectants

EPA published a memorandum addressing resistance risks to lepidopteran pests of corn and cotton containing the Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) Plant-Incorporated Protectant (PIP)

Burden Reduction Comes in All "Spices"

Final rule revising pesticide crop grouping regulations for herbs and spices, resulting in significant burden reductions and cost savings to growers of nearly $52 million annually while maintaining current protections for human health and the environment

EPA Continues Webinar Series Dedicated to Integrated Pest Management Strategies

Continued focus on integrated pest management (IPM) strategies. EPA will host a 60-minute webinar, IPM for Scale Insect Pests of Trees and Woody Ornamentals, followed by a 30-minute Q&A session.

EPA Proposes Registration of New Active Ingredient to Control Corn Rootworm and Other Pests

Proposal to register pesticide products containing the new active ingredient broflanilide. Insecticide designed to control soil-dwelling insects (ex. corn rootworm larvae, seedcorn maggot, white grubs, and wireworms) on corn and tuberous and corm veggies

EPA Announces Implementation of Electronic Gold Seal Letter for Exporting Pesticides

The EPA is now providing pesticide registrants with electronic Certificates of Registration, commonly known as gold seal letters.

EPA Proposes Registration of Tetraniliprole, a New Insecticide Active Ingredient

The EPA is proposing to register pesticide products containing the new active ingredient tetraniliprole.