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Technical and Legal Documents
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The Lean and Green Supply Chain: A Practical Guide for Materials Managers and Supply Chain Managers to Reduce Costs and Improve Environmental Performance
This guidebook provides a four-step framework for identifying and using environmental information to improve financial performance.
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Federal Pioneers: Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Success Stories from the Federal Government
The federal government purchases more than $200 billion worth of goods and services each year; purchasing decisions can have important environmental consequences, federal agencies are considering some environmental impacts when buying goods and services.
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An Introduction to Environmental Accounting as a Business Management Tool: Key Concepts and Terms
This primer focuses on the application of environmental accounting as a managerial accounting tool for internal business decisions.
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State and Local Government Pioneers: How State and Local Governments Are Implementing Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Practices
This report provides an overview of recent state and local government environmentally preferable purchasing (EPP) initiatives and includes references to specific products and technologies.
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Leading By Example: Two Case Studies Documenting How the EPA Incorporated Environmental Features into New Buildings
This document includes a case study for two EPA projects. Each details the decision-making process EPA used when selecting environmental design components.
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Toxics Use Reduction to Achieve Enhanced Pollution Prevention Success
Training material from the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Institute, University of Massachusetts Lowell. This training explains toxic use reduction, process mapping and materials accounting. Helps identify TUR opportunities and TUR options evaluation
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Sustainable Region 9 Green Meetings and Conferences Policy
A region 9 policy to help comply with stated agency goals and Executive Order 13514 Federal leadership in Environmental, Energy and Economic Performance.
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FY 2013 Request for Proposals for the Pollution Prevention Information Network Grants Program
The Pollution Prevention Information Network (PPIN) grant program funds regional centers that serve both unique regional pollution prevention (P2) information needs and national audience needs for information on source reduction and related P2 practices.
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Charter & Operating Procedures for the Pilot Governance Committee
Propsed Final of EPA's Charter and Operating Procedures
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Assessment Summaries for Environmental Performance Standards and Ecolabels for Federal Purchasing
This page will outline the process EPA took to recommend to federal agencies how to purchase green products.
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Draft Framework for the Assessment of Environmental Performance Standards and Ecolabels
This page will include comments that were generated from the draft guidelines.
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Draft Framework Sections I-IV
This page includes the draft guidelines for products for use in federal procurement.
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Learn About Pollution Prevention
Pollution prevention is reducing or eliminating waste at the source by modifying production, the use of less-toxic substances, better conservation techniques, and re-use of materials.
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Fiscal Year 2012 Pollution Prevention Grant Summaries
List of states and programs who received funds from the 2010 Pollution Prevention Grant program along with summaries of target programs.
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Responses to questions asked during the P2 Program: National Grants Webinar presented by EPA staff on March 22, 2016
Questions and answers from the webinar explaining the scope of the grants offered by the P2 Program.
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P2 Program National Grants Webinar, March 22, 2016: SLIDES
Slides from the webinar explaining the scope of the grants offered by the P2 Program.
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Measuring Impacts of Pollution Prevention
Applicants that are awarded EPA Pollution Prevention Grants must report the environmental and economic benefits achieved across all media from the implementation of the grant, which helps achieve EPA’s P2 targets.
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SRA Grant Writing Tutorial
This tutorial will help give your organization a broad but succinct analysis of what the SRA grant program is about. This self-paced tutorial is organized under two segments: Overview of Grant Program and Program Details.