Science & Technology

Study Profile Templates - Series 890 - Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program Test Guidelines

These templates are for use in preparation for the data evaluation record (DER) for the indicated study.

Guidance for Classifying Studies Conducted Using the OECD Test Guideline 223 (TG223) (Acute Avian Oral Sequential Dose Study)

Guidance based on comparison of results from the TG223 validation studies to results from avian acute oral studies previously submitted to EPA for two test chemicals following EPA's 850.2100 (public draft) guidelines.

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2003 Small Business Award

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2003 award winner, AgraQuest, developed Serenade, an OMRI-listed biofungicide for fruits and vegetables based on Bacillus subtilis QST-713, a naturally occurring strain of bacteria.

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 1998 Designing Greener Chemicals Award

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 1998 award winner, Rohm and Haas, developed CONFIRM, a highly selective, reduced risk insecticide that disrupts the molting process of caterpillar pests in turf and a variety of crops.

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2004 Greener Reaction Conditions Award

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2004 award winner, Buckman Laboratories International, developed Optimyze technology, which uses an esterase enzyme to remove sticky contaminants from paper products prior to recycling.

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2002 Academic Award

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2002 award winner, Professor Eric J. Beckman, developed fluorine-free detergents that help supercritical carbon dioxide (CO2) dissolve many chemicals, so it can be a solvent for industrial processes.

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2002 Small Business Award

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2002 award winner, SC Fluids, with Los Alamos National Laboratory, developed supercritical CO2 resist remover technology to clean residues from semiconductor wafers during manufacture.

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2003 Greener Synthetic Pathways Award

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2003 winner, Sud-Chemie, developed a synthesis for solid oxide catalysts used to make hydrogen and clean fuels. The process creates little wastewater, no nitrates, and no or little NOx.

EPA RCRA ID: WAD009282302

EPA's hazardous waste cleanup activities at the Container Properties facility located next to the Lower Duwamish Waterway in Tukwila, Washington.

What are Hazardous Air Pollutants?

What are hazardous air pollutants?

2011 NATA: Assessment Methods

Information about assessment methods used in the 2011 NATA assessment

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2003 Greener Reaction Conditions Award

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2003 award winner, DuPont, developed a genetically engineered microorganism jointly with Genencor International to manufacture 1,3-propanediol, a building block for Sorona polyester.

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2003 Designing Greener Chemicals Award

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2003 award winner, Shaw Industries, developed EcoWorx carpet tiles with a backing that uses less toxic materials. The carpet tile fiber and backing are readily separated for recycling.

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2002 Designing Greener Chemicals Award

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2002 award winner, Chemical Specialties, developed an alkaline copper quaternary wood preservative to replace chromated copper arsenate preservative phased out due to risk to children.

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2016 Greener Synthetic Pathways Award

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2016 award winners, Albemarle and CB&I, developed a safer technology to produce alkylate, a clean gasoline component by replacing liquid acid catalysts with a lower environmental impact catalyst

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2005 Greener Synthetic Pathways Award (Merck & Co., Inc.)

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2005 award winner, Merck, designed an atom-economical, energy- and water-saving, convergent synthesis for aprepitant, the active ingredient in Emend, a drug for nausea and vomiting.

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2010 Designing Greener Chemicals Award

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2010 award winner, Clarke, developed Natular, a plaster matrix that encapsulates the pesticide spinosad, slowly releasing it into water and effectively controlling mosquito larvae.

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2001 Designing Greener Chemicals Award

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2001 award winner, PPG Industries, developed cationic electrodeposition coatings with yttrium that resist corrosion in automobiles. Yttrium is a safe replacement for lead in this use.

PRN 81-4: Label Improvement Program - Label Revisions to Accommodate New AOAC Methods of Chemical Analysis

This notice describes procedures EPA will use to ensure that pesticide label ingredient statements reflect percentages of ingredients determined by the most specific analytical techniques approved by the Association of Official Analytical Chemists (AOCA).

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2002 Greener Synthetic Pathways Award

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2002 award winner, Pfizer, improved its synthesis of sertraline, the active ingredient in its drug, Zoloft, to double the yield and reduce the use of raw materials, energy, and water.