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Energy and Environment Guide to Action - Chapter 2: Developing a State Strategy

Outlines the process states may follow to select programs and strategies that use energy efficiency, renewable energy, combined heat and power, and other clean onsite generation technologies.

Energy Outreach Colorado: a nonprofit hub for energy assistance

Learn about Energy Outreach Colorado's key features, approach, partners, funding sources, and achievements, as well as their keys to success and tips for replication and sustainability.

Help My House Program Profile

Learn about Help My House, a program that helps participants reduce their utility bills by nearly 35 percent through low-cost loans for EE improvements. Learn more about the key features, approaches, funding sources, and achievements of this program.

Resources for States and Educators to Use in Training Pesticide Applicators

This page provides applicator certification and training resources available from EPA, CTAG, and NASDARF.

EPA Releases Draft Biological Evaluation of 11 Rodenticides’ Effects on Endangered Species

The U.S. EPA has released a draft Biological Evaluation (BE) that includes EPA’s draft effects determinations

Hazardous Waste Cleanup: Chevron Incorporated-NWPMG00037 Bacon Site in Glenham, New York

Chevron, Inc., former Texaco Research Center, also known as Texaco or Chevron Texaco, operated a Research Center in Glenham, New York from 1931 until its closure in 2003. The Main Facility includes all of the developed areas located north of Fishkill Creek

Hazardous Waste Cleanup: Chemours Chambers Works in Deepwater, New Jersey

The 1,455-acre DuPont Chambers Works Complex -- composed of the Chambers Works manufacturing area and the former Carneys Point Works - is located along the eastern shore of the Delaware River by State Highway 130 (Shell Road) in Deepwater, New Jersey. East

Hazardous Waste Cleanup: Chemours Repauno in Gibbstown, New Jersey

Chemours Repauno, a former DuPont Company, is located at 200 North Repauno Avenue in Gibbstown, New Jersey. The DuPont Gibbstown plant occupies nearly 1,900 acres along the Delaware River in Gibbstown, Greenwich Township. The plant, which opened in 1880,

Hazardous Waste Cleanup: IBM Corporation in Dayton, New Jersey

The IBM facility is located at 431 Ridge Road on a 66-acre parcel in a mixed residential and industrial section of Dayton, South Brunswick Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey. IBM's manufacturing plant was constructed in 1956 and used until 1985 for

Hazardous Waste Cleanup: Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation in Highland, New York

This site is located about five miles west of the Hudson River in Town of Lloyd, New York, Ulster County. It has operated as a vehicle and equipment storage and repair facility for an electric power transmission company since the 1950's. Both current

Resource Conservation and Recovery: A Guide to Developing and Implementing Greenhouse Gas Reduction Programs

Learn how local governments can work with residents, private companies, and other groups to decrease waste generation and diverte more waste from landfills and combustion.

Energy Efficient Product Procurement

Learn how local governments have planned and implemented energy-efficient product procurement programs to reduce energy costs and create a range of environmental and economic benefits.

Smart Growth

Find out more about how local governments have planned, designed, and implemented approaches that encourage smarth growth in their communities.

CSC Tip Sheets: Working with Students

Work with students, individually or in teams, who are a volunteer workforce that offers resources to implement projects. In turn, these students are given a valuable hands-on learning experience, academic credit, and a career boost.

Landfill Gas Energy

This guide describes how local governments and communities can achieve energy, environmental, health, and economic benefits by using landfill gas (LFG) recovered from municipal solid waste landfills as a source of renewable energy.

Why is it difficult to establish a link between cancers or other illnesses and environmental exposures?

The complex nature of cancer makes it inherently challenging to identify, interpret, and address cancer clusters. Cancer is a term describing different diseases that share a similar characteristic: uncontrollable cell growth and division. As a group, cancers are very common. Cancers are the second leading cause of death in the…

Last published: November 5, 2025

Pre-Publication Version of Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for Criminal Negligence Standard for State Clean Water Act 402 and 404 Programs

The EPA Administrator signed the following notice of proposed rulemaking on December 1, 2020, and EPA is submitting it for publication in the Federal Register (FR).