Science & Technology

Now Available: Latest Update to the TSCA Inventory

EPA Releases Updated 2019 TRI Data

EPA is releasing updated 2019 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) data, continuing the agency’s commitment to providing the public with important data and information about chemicals in their communities.

AirToxScreen Technical Support Document

A technical overview of methods used for EPA's AirToxScreen

Climate Change Indicators: Ecosystems

Ecosystems

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 1997 Academic Award

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 1997 award winner, Professor Joseph M. DeSimone, developed surfactants that allow carbon dioxide to be a solvent for chemical manufacturing, replacing hazardous chemical solvents.

Climate Change Indicators: Climate Forcing

This indicator measures the “radiative forcing” or heating effect caused by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 1997 Greener Reaction Conditions Award

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 1997 award winner, Imation, developed DryView Imaging Systems, which use a special photographic film for medical imaging that replaces hazardous developer chemicals and water with heat.

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2013 Designing Greener Chemicals Award

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2013 award winner, Cargill, Inc., developed a vegetable-oil-based transformer fluid that is much less flammable, provides superior performance, is less toxic, and has a substantially lower carbon footprint.

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2004 Designing Greener Chemicals Award

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2004 award winner, Engelhard Corporation, developed a wide range of environmentally friendly Rightfit azo pigments that contain calcium, strontium, or barium instead of heavy metals.

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 1996 Designing Greener Chemicals Award

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 1996 award winner, Rohm and Haas, developed Sea-Nine, a marine antifoulant to control plants and animals on ship hulls. Sea-Nine replaces persistent, toxic organotin antifoulants.

Water Laboratory Alliance Learning Center

WLA Training Center

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 1997 Greener Synthetic Pathways Award

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 1997 award winner, BHC Company, developed a highly atom-efficient method to make ibuprofen, a common painkiller, using three catalytic steps instead of six stoichiometric ones.

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2005 Greener Reaction Conditions Award

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2005 award winner, BASF, invented a one-component, urethane acrylate oligomer primer system for automobile refinishing that is UV-curable, has VOCs, and is free of diisocyanates.

Climate Change Indicators: U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions

This indicator describes emissions of greenhouse gases in the United States.

Climate Change Indicators: Weather and Climate

Weather and Climate

EPA Publishes 2020 Chemical Data Reporting Information

this page has info on the release of 2020 chemical data reporting (CDR) information

Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI) Model Reference Document History

archive of documents for the Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators Model (RSEI) screening tool

RSEI Data Dictionary

An overview of the RSEI data dictionary

Drinking Water Alternate Test Procedure Program

Guidance for the modification or development of drinking water methods for compliance monitoring.

Additional Resources on SF6

Additional resources, research, and organizations involved in SF6 emissions and mitigation opportunities collected by the Electric Power Systems Partnership.