Science & Technology

Journal Articles Applying National Aquatic Resource Survey Data

The National Aquatic Resource Surveys (NARS) data are being used and applied above and beyond the regional and national assessments. This page includes a list of recent journal articles that reference NARS data.

Environmental, Health, and Flammability Info on Substitutes for HCFC-22 and 142b

Landfill Gas Emissions Model (LandGEM)

Landfill Gas Emissions Model is an automated estimation tool with a Microsoft Excel interface that can be used to estimate emission rates from municipal solid waste landfills.

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2009 Small Business Award

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2009 award winner, Virent, developed a water-based, catalytic method to make gasoline, diesel, or jet fuel from plant sugar, starch, or cellulose that requires little external energy.

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2006 Greener Reaction Conditions Award

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2006 award winner, Codexis, directed the evolution of three "designer" enzymes to produce the key chiral building block for atorvastatin, the active ingredient in the drug Lipitor.

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2008 Designing Greener Chemicals Award

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2008 award winner, Dow AgroSciences, used an artificial neural network to discover spinetoram, an improved spinosad biopesticide to replace organophosphates for key pests of fruit trees.

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2007 Small Business Award

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2007 award winner, NovaSterilis, invented a way to sterilize delicate biological materials such as graft tissue without harming them, using supercritical carbon dioxide and a peroxide.

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2010 Academic Award - James C. Liao and Easel Biotechnologies, LLC

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2010 award winner, Dr. James C. Liao, genetically engineered microorganisms to make higher alcohols (with 3 to 8 carbon atoms) from glucose or directly from carbon dioxide (CO2).

Green Chemistry Challenge: 2022 Small Business Award

Green Chemistry Challenge 2022 award winners

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2012 Greener Synthetic Pathways Award

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2012 award winner, Codexis and Professor Yi Tang, developed a synthesis for the high cholesterol drug, simvastatin, using an engineered acyltransferase enzyme and a low-cost acyl donor as a feedstock.

Proposed Rule and Related Materials for Control of Emissions of Air Pollution from 2004 and Later Model Year Heavy-Duty Highway Engines and Vehicles; Revision of Light-duty Truck Definition

Includes links to Federal Register notice, fact sheet and final rule.

Integrated Risk Information System

EPA's Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) is a human health assessment program that evaluates information on health effects that may result from exposure to environmental contaminants.

Drinking Water Models, Tools, and Methods

Comprehensive list of models, tools, and analytical methods for drinking water.

Climate Change Science

EPA tracks the science on the causes of climate change, observations of climate changes today, and the ways climate change could affect societies and ecosystems in the future.

U.S. Department of Energy, Sandia National Laboratories: Printing Case Study

The U.S. Department of Energy, Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), New Mexico quantified the costs
associated with individual desktop printing devices, for comparison with costs associated with using
networked copiers as printers

2003 Natural Gas STAR Annual Implementation Workshop

Presentations made during the 2003 Natural Gas STAR Annual Implementation Workshop held on October 27-29, 2003 in Houston, Texas.

2004 Natural Gas STAR Annual Implementation Workshop

Presentations made during the 2004 Natural Gas STAR Annual Implementation Workshop held on October 25-27, 2004 in Houston, Texas.

2005 Natural Gas STAR Annual Implementation Workshop

Presentations made during the 2005 Natural Gas STAR Annual Implementation Workshop held on October 24-26, 2005 in Houston, Texas.

2010 Natural Gas STAR Annual Implementation Workshop

Presentations made during the 2010 Natural Gas STAR Annual Implementation Workshop held on November 1-3, 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

BMDS References in Scientific Literature

List of BMDS references in recent scientific literature.