Science & Technology

Coastal Adaptation Toolkit

Learn more about climate change impacts and developing adaptation plans. Find links, reports, and resources related to vulnerability assessments, action plans, and climate impact reports.

Information on climate change impacts to different estuary regions, tools and resources to monitor changes, and information to help managers develop adaptation plans for risk management of estuaries and coastal communities.

Being Prepared for Climate Change: Checklists of Potential Climate Change Risks

The Being Prepared for Climate Change workbook is a guide for constructing a climate change adaptation plan based on identifying risks and their consequences. These checklists (from Step 3 of the workbook) help users identify risks.

Climate Change Risk Management: CRE Adaptation Projects and the Risk Management Process

This document describes National Estuary Program partner projects that demonstrate how risk management can be successfully applied to address environmental challenges in our country’s coastal areas.

Being Prepared for Climate Change: A Workbook for Developing Risk-Based Adaptation Plans

This workbook is a guide for environmental professionals to construct a climate change adaptation plan based on identifying risks and their consequences. It incorporates watershed management, vulnerability assessments and action planning.

Actions That Could Reduce Water Temperature

Appendix F from Being Prepared for Climate Change: A Workbook for Developing Risk-Based Adaptation Plans, lists actions that could lower water temperture, and notes their cobenefits for urban stormwater control or restoring watersheds.

Risk-Based Adaptation

Integrating risk management into climate change adaptation planning for watershed-based organizations or coastal communities.

Foresight

An introduction to the use of strategic foresight for anticipating emerging risks and opportunities in coastal areas.

EPA's Assessments of Animal Agriculture Programs in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

This page provides EPA's assessments of the animal agriculture programs in New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.

Local, State and Federal Cooperation Paves Way for New NGA Facility in North St. Louis

Construction on the new National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency West facility, or Next NGA West, in North St. Louis is well underway. The new campus will include a 700,000-square-foot office building, two parking garages, and a visitor center.

Exhibits to RFC 17001

AQS Code List

Summary of Texas' Water Reuse Guideline or Regulation for Agriculture

Texas (State Regulation) | Source water: Treated municipal wastewater | End use: Agriculture

Summary of Texas' Water Reuse Guideline or Regulation for Industry

Texas (State Regulation) | Source water: Treated municipal wastewater | End use: Water reused for industry

Summary of Texas' Water Reuse Guideline or Regulation for Landscaping

Texas (State Regulation) | Source water: Treated municipal wastewater | End use: Landscaping

Summary of Texas' Water Reuse Guideline or Regulation for Onsite Non-Potable Water Reuse, Industry, Landscaping, and Agriculture

Texas (State Regulation) | Source water: Onsite collected waters | End use: Onsite non-potable reuse

U.S. Government’s International Methane Mitigation Activities: 2023 Accomplishments

The U.S. Government’s Global Methane Initiative Accomplishments ANNUAL REPORT (2023)

AVERT Tutorial: How AVERT Works

Describes how AVERT, the AVoided Emissions and geneRation Tool, works and the different modules within the tool.

EPA Accepting Public Comments on Nominees for the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory Panel (FIFRA SAP)

FRN professional affiliations of recent nominees by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation for service on the FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel established under section 25(d) of the FIFRA

TSCA Environmental Release Application (TERA) for Bradyrhizobium japonicum (B. japonicum)

TERA pertains to field trials of a mutant strain (Bj 61A273KS) of Bradyrhizobium japonicum (B. japonicum), a common soil bacterium which is used as a commercial seed inoculant. The strain was given the EPA tracking designation of R-00-01.