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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Charter & Operating Procedures for the Pilot Governance Committee

Propsed Final of EPA's Charter and Operating Procedures

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.

Draft Framework for the Assessment of Environmental Performance Standards and Ecolabels

This page will include comments that were generated from the draft guidelines.

Revised Framework on the Environmental Effectiveness of the Standards (Section II)

Revised Guidelines

Public Comments on Draft Framework for Product Environmental Performance Standards and Ecolabels

These are all the comments received on the Draft Guidelines.

Draft Framework Sections I-IV

This page includes the draft guidelines for products for use in federal procurement.

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.

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.

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.

P2 Program National Grants Webinar, March 22, 2016: SLIDES

Slides from the webinar explaining the scope of the grants offered by the P2 Program.

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.

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.

Cleaning National Parks: Using Environmentally Preferable Janitorial Products at Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks

The purpose of this project was to help National Park Service
janitorial staff and supervisors at Yellowstone and Grand Teton
National Parks select and use safer cleaning products.

Why Should You Care About Preventing Waste?

The bottom line is that preventing waste will save you money. By consuming and throwing away less, you will reduce the need to handle, treat, and dispose of waste.