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Contact Us: General Information About NPDES

Overview of regulations and guidance for the hauling and removal of transported hazardous (hauled) waste.

Communication Resources for Small Drinking Water Systems

These documents explain how to effectively communicate drinking water issues to customers and decision makers.

SERC-TERC Update September 2025

SERC-TERC Updates from September 2025

EPA to hold public hearing on the City of Asheboro’s wastewater treatment plant proposed permit

Release Date: October 8, 2025

Where They Play: Creating Healthy Environments for Youth Athletes

EPA has created a presentation to help coaches and athletic administrators better understand the environmental health risks associated with youth sports and the steps they can follow to protect young athletes.

Complete Lesson 7: Healthy Water Inside

Examines water in our homes with a focus on how our tap water is treated and how to conserve water. Avoiding mold and mildew is also addressed.

Complete Lesson 9: All Together Now - Air, Water, Food, and Shelter

In this final lesson, the students will review the key concepts from the program and pledge, both as a class and individually, to take action to create a healthier environment for themselves and their community.

Complete Lesson 4: Be Sun Smart

Explores how we both need the sun and need to protect ourselves from its rays. Discuss plants, vitamin D, sleeping rhythms, sunburn, ultraviolet radiation, sun smarts.

Complete Lesson 8: Sustainable Eating, Healthy

Brings together ideas from the previous seven lessons and explains the concept of sustainable food through discussion of how food travels and the importance of community gardens, and how they are linked to healthy eating.

Complete Lesson 3: Breathing Easy: Keeping the Inside of Our Homes Healthy and Clean

Looks at our homes and the steps to take to keep the air healthy and avoid chemical exposure. We explore the makeup of the air that we breathe, how to keep it clean, and how to reduce asthma triggers in our homes, as well as lead.

Complete Lesson 5: Climate Change and You

Students learn what causes climate change and how we can participate in reducing its harmful effects. Discuss the Solar System, heat and light energy, atmosphere, greenhouse effect and gases, ozone, and energy conservation.

Promoting Good Prenatal Health: Air Pollution and Pregnancy (January 2010)

simple steps for pregnant women and new mothers/parents to avoid common environmental exposures which can cause health problems and adverse birth outcomes; including tobacco smoke, carbon monoxide, particle pollution, ozone,

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.

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.

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.