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Pollution Prevention Information Network (PPIN) Grant Summaries 2015

Summaries of awards from OPPT's PPIN grant program to promote pollution prevention through source reduction and resource conservation.

Pollution Prevention Resource Exchange (P2RX)

Listing of regional P2Rx centers funded in part by EPA grants.

Green Hotels - Resources, Ecolabels and Standards

Efforts to green meetings are explored.

Internship Programs in Pollution Prevention

This page provides links to non-EPA web sites that provide additional information about internships.

EPA Requirements for Importers and Exporters

A collection of resources about importing and exporting environmentally relevant products and substances.

Chemically-related Groups of Active Ingredients

Many pesticide active ingredients affect pests in similar ways, and we re-evaluate them together as a group. Groups include carbamate insecticides, neonicotinoids, organochlorines, organophosphates, pyrethrins, and pyrethroids.

Soil Fumigant Toolbox

This Toolbox provides training, outreach, and resource materials for applicators and handlers, communities, state/local agencies, and others interested in understanding and implementing the current requirements for safe use of these pesticides.

Reducing Pesticide Drift

Provides information about pesticide spray drift, including problems associated with drift, managing risks from drift and the voluntary Drift Reduction Technology program that seeks to reduce spray drift through improved spray equipment design.

Pesticide Labels

Pesticide labels translate results of our extensive evaluations of pesticide products into conditions, directions and precautions that define parameters for use of a pesticide with the goal of ensuring protection of human health and the environment.

Pesticide Contacts and Organizational Information

This web area assists the pesticide registrants, other stakeholders, and the public in contacting pesticide regulatory staff to get information on issues of interest/concern

Pesticide Advisory Committees and Regulatory Partners

This site will provide all stakeholders, including the general public, with access to information about meetings of advisory committees, and how we work with state, territory, and tribal government partners.

Pest Control and Pesticide Safety for Consumers

Consumer information about pesticides, safe pesticide uses, controlling pests, child safety, and protecting family and the environment.

Ingredients Used in Pesticide Products

Information about individual pesticides and related groups of pesticides, including regulatory decisions, risk assessments, public participation opportunities, Public Dockets, and how to search for information about pesticide ingredients and labels.

Formaldehyde

Information on formaldehyde and the regulation of formaldehyde emissions from composite wood products under the Formaldehyde Standards for Composite Wood Products Act in the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).

Confidential Business Information under TSCA

This website informs businesses, policymakers, and the public about the confidential business information (CBI) provisions of § 14 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), as amended by the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act.