Learn the Issues
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Toxics and Speciation Session (2019 EIC)
Papers and Presentations for the Toxics and Speciation session during the 2019 International Emissions Inventory Conference.
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Tools Session (2019 EIC)
Papers and Presentations for the Tools session during the 2019 International Emissions Inventory conference.
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Memo on Public Hearing Requirements for 1990 Base-Year Emission Inventory for Ozone and Carbon Monoxide Nonattainment Areas
A memorandum clarifying that emissions inventories for a State Implementation Plans are subject to the public hearing requirements.
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Memo on Emission Statement Requirement Under 8-Hour Ozone NAAQS Implementation
A memorandum indicating that the emission statement requirements is applicable to nonattainment areas for the 8-hour ozone NAAQS.
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Ozone and Your Patients' Health: Course Developers
List of course developers for the Ozone Pollution and your patient's health online course
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Performance Specification 12A for Mercury
Promulgated Performance Specification 12A - Specifications and Test Procedures for Total Vapor Phase Mercury Continuous Emission Monitoring Systems in Stationary Sources.
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Clinical Scenario 2 for Particle Pollution
Clinical Scenario 2
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Technician and Shop Owner Resources
Overview page provides information for shops and technicians that repair or service motor vehicle air-conditioning systems, including information on proper training, approved equipment, and regulatory practices.
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Investments in Pollution Prevention
Learn about EPA's Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act funding for pollution prevention.
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Investments in Electric and Low-emission School Buses
Learn about EPA's Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act funding for healthier air for school children, including investments in electric and reduced carbon school buses.
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Guidance on Selecting Age Groups for Monitoring and Assessing Childhood Exposures to Environmental Contaminants
This document recommends a set of age groupings based on current understanding of differences in lifestage behavior and anatomy and physiology that can serve as a starting set for consideration by Agency risk assessors and researchers.
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Guidelines for Carcinogen Risk Assessment
The Guidelines for Carcinogen Risk Assessment provide EPA staff with guidance for developing and using risk assessments. They also provide basic information to the public about the Agency's risk assessment methods.
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Documents for Recommended Toxicity Equivalency Factors for Human Health Risk Assessments of Dioxin and Dioxin-Like Compounds
This document describes the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (U.S. EPA’s) updated approach for evaluating the human health risks from exposures to environmental media containing dioxin-like compounds (DLCs).
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Integrating Ecological Assessment and Decision-Making at EPA: A Path Forward - Results of a Colloquium in Response to Science Advisory Board and National Research Council Recommendations
This report was prepared by a Technical Panel of EPA’s Risk Assessment Forum to document an Intra-Agency Colloquium of ecological assessors.
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Guidelines for Mutagenicity Risk Assessment
Guide the Agency analysis of mutagenicity data in line with the policies and procedures established in the statutes administered by EPA.
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Guidelines for the Health Risk Assessment of Chemical Mixtures
1986 procedural guide for evaluating data on the health risks from exposures to chemical mixtures.
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Guidelines for Developmental Toxicity Risk Assessment
1991 issuing of final amended guidelines for assessing the risks for developmental toxicity from exposure to environmental agents.
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Framework for Ecological Risk Assessment
This is the first step in a long-term effort to develop risk assessment guidelines for ecological effects. Its primary purpose is to offer a simple, flexible structure for conducting and evaluating ecological risk assessment within EPA.
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Framework for Human Health Risk Assessment to Inform Decision Making
The purpose of this document is to describe a Framework for conducting human health risk assessments that are responsive to the needs of decision‐making processes in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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Policy for Use of Probabilistic Analysis in Risk Assessment at EPA
This policy and the guiding principles attached are designed to support the use of various techniques for characterizing variability and uncertainty.