Science & Technology
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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.
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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.
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Environmental Geophysics: Tools
This overview page describes the Env. Geophysics web site and its offerings
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About Environmental Geophysics
This overview page describes the Env. Geophysics web site and its offerings
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Geophysical Methods
The geophysical methods: surface, borehole, and marine. with links to properties, inversion, terms, and references
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Overview of Air Quality Management
Overview of what EPA is doing in regards to air quality management.
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Assessment and Implementation
Assessing current air quality, deploying air pollution control technologies, and engaging with the public are all critical elements of air quality management plan implementation.
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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.
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Heavy-Duty Evaporative Families: Family Naming Conventions
How to create Positions 5-12 of your Engine Family name for Heavy-Duty Evaporative Families.
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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.
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Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2009 Designing Greener Chemicals Award
Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2009 award winners, Procter & Gamble Co. (P&G) and Cook Composites and Polymers Co. (CCP), developed Chempol MPS resins and Sefose sucrose esters to enable high-performance low-VOC alkyd paints.
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Large Nonroad Spark-Ignition Engines (>19 kiloWatts): Family Naming Conventions
How to create Positions 5-12 of your Engine Family name for Large Nonroad Spark-Ignition Engines (>19 kiloWatts).
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Complete Heavy-Duty Highway Vehicles (8,500 to 14,000 Pounds GVWR; Tested on Chassis Dynamometer): Family Naming Conventions
How to create Positions 5-12 of your Engine Family name for Complete Heavy-Duty Highway Vehicles (8,500 to 14,000 pounds GVWR; tested on chassis dynamometer).
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Diatoms – Solving an Identity Issue
EPA researchers are making progress in diatom taxonomy so these algae could be a valuable asset to determine the biological condition of our nation’s waters.
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In-Use Testing Template for Large Nonroad Spark-Ignition (SI) Engine
Use this template to report for large nonroad spark-ignition engines.
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Presentation on Onroad Electric Motorcycle and Portable Fuel Container for Engines and Vehicles Compliance Information System (EV-CIS), formerly Verify, Module Deployment
This presentation provides information about electric motorcycles and portable fuel container EV-CIS module deployment.
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Nature’s Gifts – Ecosystem Goods and Services
Ecosystem goods and services produce the many life-sustaining benefits we receive from nature. Read about a few of the resources and tools EPA researchers have developed to help people better understand, appreciate, and sustain these gifts.
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Using Challenges and Prizes to Create Opportunities for Change in Communities
EPA has used its Challenges and Prizes program to crowdsource creative, community-led solutions that help address critical environmental issues.
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Net Zero Projects
Net Zero projects in process or completed, NZ/NP projects help communities and military installations become more sustainable and resilient with an emphasis on taking a systems approach.
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Headwater Streams Studies
An overview of Headwater Streams Studies which produced a field operations manual for assessing hydrologic permanence and the ecological condition of headwater streams.