Science & Technology

Press Release: American Distillation Pleads Guilty After Releasing Pollution into the Cape Fear River

Superfund

EPA’s Superfund program is responsible for cleaning up some of the nation’s most contaminated land and responding to environmental emergencies, oil spills and natural disasters in order to protect public health and the environment.

BOSC Review of ORD's Research Programs - 2021

This review report addresses charge questions posed by two of the Office of Research and Development’s (ORD) six National Research Programs.

People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) Student Design Competition

This site supports the P3 competitions and tracks awarded teams and their designs/projects.

Health Impact Assessments

A Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a decision-making tool that asks how proposed decisions may impact health and well-being. This page also includes links to the new Proctor Creek Story Map.

Childrens Center Reports

Document page for children's center reports

Interventions and Communication Strategies to Reduce Health Risks of Wildland Fire Smoke Exposures Grants

EPA awarded $9 million in grant funding for researchers to address behavioral, technical, and practical aspects of interventions and communication strategies to reduce exposures and health risks of wildland fire smoke.

EcoTox TARGET Challenge Rules

U.S. EPA and partners are seeking high quality, low cost, technologies for measuring global gene expression in samples from non-human organisms including fish, invertebrates, and plants/algae.

NIEHS/EPA CEHCs: Denver Children’s Environmental Health Center - Environmental Determinants of Airway Disease in Children - National Jewish Health

This Center is looking into possible causes of asthma and other respiratory diseases which are the most common chronic childhood illnesses.

Framework for Cumulative Risk Assessment

Its primary purpose is to offer a simple, flexible structure for conducting and evaluating cumulative risk assessment within EPA.

STAR Organotypic Culture Models for Predictive Toxicology Centers Progress Review Satellite Meeting

NCER's Chemical Safety for Sustainability meeting at the Society of Toxicology discussing the new challenges with three dimensional cell culture systems.

Date: March 17, 2016

In the Field - Sample Handling

Class VI - Wells used for Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide

This page presents information on what Class VI wells are, how they protect drinking water, and summarizes the general requirements.

Virtual Beach v 3.0.4 User Guide

Guide for Virtual Beach modeling software, designed for developing site-specific Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) models for prediction of pathogen indicator levels at recreational beaches.

Virtual Beach 3.0 Download Page

Download Page for Virtual Beach 3.0 software package for developing models for prediction of pathogen indicator levels at recreational beaches. Provides Download Files. Released September 2013.

WMOST Theoretical Documentation

Watershed Management Optimization Support Tool (WMOST) Theoretical Documentation

BASINS Meteorological Data

Selecting a station number will download a zipped WDM file for that station. Many of the stations have additional data through 2009.

Virtual Beach 3.0.7 Download Page

Download Page for Virtual Beach 3.0.7 software package for developing models for prediction of pathogen indicator levels at recreational beaches. Provides Download Files. Released February 2019.

Virtual Beach 3.0.6 Download Page

Download Page for Virtual Beach 3.0.6 software package for developing models for prediction of pathogen indicator levels at recreational beaches. Provides Download Files. Released February 2016.

What's Changed Between BASINS 4.1 and 4.5

BASINS 4.5 provides a number of significant improvements over BASINS 4.1. These improvements increase the functionality and applicability of BASINS.