Learn the Issues
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AHE1012-Backpack ROW Monograph Review
Review of Agricultural Handler Exposure Task Force (AHETF) Monograph: “Backpack Application of Liquid Sprays in Utilities Rights-of-Way” (AHE1012)
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AHE400- BP and HG Row Field Analytical Review
Review of “Determination of Dermal and Inhalation Exposure to Workers during Backpack and Handgun Application of Liquid Sprays in Utilities Rights-of-Way” (AHE400)
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ACE Related Topics and Links
Page lists related topics and links to America's Children and the Environment
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Resources about Siting Child Care Facilities for Providers
This section of the website provides resources to help you identify sources of pollution near your facility.
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Basic Information about Lead in Drinking Water
Questions and answers about lead in drinking water -- health effects, EPA regulations etc.
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Children's Health Curriculum Lesson 1: Environmental Health 101
Children's Health Curriculum Lesson 1 helps kids connect the earth to their schools, homes, and communities and teaches them how they all affect each other.
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Children's Health Curriculum Lesson 2: Pesky Pests and Household Hazards
This lesson teaches kids about pests, pesticides, and how to get rid of pests in homes and schools safely by taking away their food, water, and shelter.
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EMC Proposed Test Methods
EMC Approved Alternative Test Methods
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Children's Health Curriculum Lesson 4: Be Sun Smart
This lesson teaches kids about the sun and why plants, animals, and humans need it. It also explains how the sun can be harmful and ways to protect ourselves from it.
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Children's Health Curriculum Lesson 6: Keeping All of Our Waterways Clean
This lesson helps kids understand the importance of water in our lives and describes the life cycle of freshwater. It also discusses how to keep trash from getting in storm drains and polluting our waterways.
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Children's Health Curriculum Lesson 8: Sustainable Eating, Healthy Foods, and Community Gardens
This lesson describes what foods we should eat to stay healthy and how to eat food that helps both the Earth and everything on it stay healthy.
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Children's Health Curriculum Lesson 9: All Together Now - Air, Water, Food, and Shelter
This lesson sums up everything the kids have learned about how interconnected the earth is. It also helps them make individual, group, and family pledges to help create a safer and healthier environment.
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Radioactive Waste From Uranium Mining and Milling
After uranium is extracted from rock, the processes leave behind radioactive waste. Uranium eventually decays to radium, and then radon. Open pit uranium milling and in situ mining sites do not pose a radon risk to the public or miners.
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EMC Updates and General Resources
This page has information about recent EMC projects, workshops, technical papers.
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Radioactive Waste
Learn about how the United States addresses radioactively contaminated sites and radioactive waste. Visit RadTown, the Environmental Protection Agency’s radiation education website to learn more about radiation in the world around us.
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EMC: Metals and Mercury Emissions Monitoring
On this page information about metals and mercury air emissions monitoring
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EPA Approves Wyoming’s Coal Combustion Residuals Permit Program
EPA announced the final approval of Wyoming’s partial coal combustion residuals (CCR) program. This will allow Wyoming, rather than the federal government, to permit CCR disposal in surface impoundments and landfills.
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EMC Instructional Material
EMC Instructional Material
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EMC Technical Information Documents
EMC Technical Information Documents explain the derivation of factors, equations, and procedures, and provide technical information.
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Method 3 - Molecular Weight
CFR Promulgated Test Method 3 - Gas Analysis for the Determination of Dry Molecular Weight.