Science & Technology
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Tool for Reduction and Assessment of Chemicals and Other Environmental Impacts (TRACI)
TRACI is an environmental impact assessment tool. It provides characterization factors for Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA), industrial ecology, and sustainability metrics.
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Meetings and Webinars on the Amended Toxic Substances Control Act
The new law includes much-needed modernizations to TSCA, the only major piece of environmental legislation that had not been updated since it was passed in the fall of 1976.
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OPPENHEIMER FORMULA
Technical product bulletin: this biological additive is a bioremediation agent in oil spill cleanups. Especially valuable in grass flats, marshes, and the open sea. Also effective in fresh water, municipal waste treatment, septic tanks and grease traps.
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Particulate Matter (PM) Standards - Federal Register Notices from Current Review
Federal Register notices used to review and develop new particulate matter national ambient air quality standards.
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Development of Community Water System Drinking Water Intake Percent Cropped Area Adjustment Factors for use in Drinking Water Exposure Assessments: 2014 Update
This document presents a history of the development and use of PCAs as used by the Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP), and the process used for calculating CWS-DWI specific PCAs.
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Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2010 Small Business Award
Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2010 award winner, LS9, engineered microorganisms to convert fermentable sugars selectively to alkanes, olefins, fatty alcohols, or fatty esters, each in a single-unit biorefinery.
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Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2001 Academic Award
Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2001 award winner, Professor Chao-Jun Li, uses metal catalysts in water to carry out chemical reactions that used to need both an oxygen-free atmosphere and hazardous organic solvents.
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Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2015 Designing Greener Chemicals Award
Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2015 award winner, Hybrid Coating Technologies/Nanotech Industries, ...
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Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2006 Greener Synthetic Pathways Award
Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2006 award winner, Merck, discovered the asymmetric catalytic hydrogenation of unprotected enamines to make beta-amino acids. Merck applied this to synthesize sitagliptin (Januvia).
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EPA Calls for Nominations of Peer Reviewers for Formaldehyde
EPA is calling for nominations of candidates to serve as ad hoc reviewers to EPA's Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals (SACC) to consult on EPA's risk evaluation of formaldehyde.
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Green Street, Green Jobs, Green Towns (G3) Webcasts, Podcasts, Blogs, and Listservs
This webpage provides links to green infrastructure, sustainability, and resiliency webcasts, blogs, listservs, podcasts, articles, and press releases.
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Compliance Monitoring Data Portal
A framework for streamlining water quality assessment and reporting by integrating existing systems.
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How to Search for Publications Using Advanced Search
Top level description of the NSCEP/NEPIS advanced search recommended usage and system behavior
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Native Searches in the National Service Center for Environmental Publications Repository
A detailed description of the syntax used to maximize control of the behavior of the NEPIS search application.
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Kansas - 2018 Annual Network Plans
Network plan provides framework for establishment and maintenance of air quality surveillance system for the state of Kansas
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Illinois - 2018 Annual Network Plans
Network plan provides framework for establishment and maintenance of air quality surveillance system for the state of Illinois
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2015 Air Toxics Data Analysis Workshop
Copies of the presentations at the 2015 Air Toxics Data Analysis Workshop
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Nebraska - 2018 Annual Network Plans
Network plan provides framework for establishment and maintenance of air quality surveillance system for the state of Nebraska
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Iowa - 2018 Annual Network Plans
Network plan provides framework for establishment and maintenance of air quality surveillance system for the state of Iowa
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South Carolina - 2018 Annual Network Plans
Network plan provides framework for establishment and maintenance of air quality surveillance system for the state of South Carolina