Learn the Issues
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Brownfields Assessment Grants
Page describing EPA Brownfields Assessment Grants
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Smart Growth and Equitable Development
This page discusses how smart growth, environmental justice, and equitable development can improve communities and provide economic, environmental, health, and social benefits to underserved communities.
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EPA at Work in Detroit and Downriver Communities
Keep Growing Detroit indicating importance of soil and preventative measures.
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Smart Growth Technical Assistance Programs
This page lists EPA's growth technical assistance programs that help communities implement smart growth solutions to development-related challenges.
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City of Elgin’s Drinking Water
City of Elgin drinking water updates
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National Results from the National Estuary Program
Learn more about habitat loss and local NEP habitat restoration goals.
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Celotex Site
The EPA ovesaw the cleanup of the Celotex site and residential properties near it between 2002 and 2009.
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Important OCIR (LGAC)PDF Documents 2012-2016
This is a very important PDF that list best practices for Performance Partnership Grants
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Communities in the East St. Louis Area and Sanitary Sewer Overflows
EPA Region 5 Centreville and adjacent communities in the East St. Louis area (ESLA) have experienced chronic sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) issues in residential areas for many years. More information about SSOs can be found at Sanitary Sewer Overflow (SSO)
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SPECIATE
SPECIATE is the EPA’s repository of volatile organic gas and particulate matter (PM) speciation profiles of air pollution sources
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Climate Change and Justice
Meeting minutes from the Climate Change Outreach Roundtable, Friday, July 24th.
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Redevelopment Tools for Local Governments
EPA staff work with local governments, communities, and other interested parties to ensure community involvement when considering how to integrate appropriate future reuse into a cleanup plan.
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Redevelopment Tools for Lenders
EPA’s willingness to work with purchasers and lenders and to use site-specific tools may help alleviate a lender’s potential concerns about financing the purchase of a contaminated property.
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Redevelopment Tools for Communities
EPA works with communities to promote reuse that can support broader neighborhood revitalization and equitable reinvestment.
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SPECIATE 5.0 Final Report and Addenda for SPECIATE 5.1-5.3
This document describes the SPECIATE 5.0 database, EPA’s repository of volatile organic gas and particulate matter (PM) speciation profiles for air pollution sources.
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Redevelopment Tools for Site Owners, Developers and Prospective Purchasers
EPA is committed to working with all stakeholders during all phases of cleanup to overcome reuse-related barriers and return sites to beneficial use.
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LGAC Final Letter Food Waste Management
This page includes an LGAC final letter for Food Waste Management.
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Fact Sheet for Regulated Facilities: Safer Communities by Chemical Accident Prevention - Risk Management Program Final Rule
Fact sheet for regulated facilities on the Safer Communities by Chemical Accident Prevention - Risk Management Program Final Rule
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Fact Sheet for Communities: Safer Communities by Chemical Accident Prevention - Risk Management Program Final Rule
Fact sheet for communities Safer Communities by Chemical Accident Prevention - Risk Management Program Final Rule
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Superfund Success Stories: EPA Region 7
Learn about Superfund sites in Region 7 that have been remediated successfully: Carter Carburetor, Omaha Lead, Kansas City Structural Steel, Lake City Army Ammunition Plant, and Chemical Commodities Inc.