Science & Technology
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Risk Evaluation for Asbestos
risk evaluation for asbestos
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EPA Proposes Registration of Product to Protect Textiles
EPA is seeking public input on a proposal to incorporate a pesticide product into textiles to combat odors, discoloration, and other signs of wear.
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Register for Upcoming Webinar on Reducing Animal Testing
Registration announcement for a webinar on the use of new approach methodologies (NAMs) on 5/29/24 hosted by EPA, PSCI, IIVS and CDPR.
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Radiological Technology Demonstration
Description of the Wide Area Urban Radiological Containment, Mitigation, and Clean up Technology Demonstration was held at Battelle in Columbus, Ohio, June 22‐25, 2016.
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Cesium’s Movement in the Natural Environment
EPA has studied Cesium’s interactions with the natural environment at the bench, pilot and field-scale.
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Assessing Exposure
EPA is interested in the risk posed by exposure to contaminants that could be adapted to be used as weapons, like chem, bio, and rad agents. EPA assesses information on the exposure and toxicity of these agents with risk assessments.
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2021 Decon Conference Proceedings
Links to speaker presentations, Q&A sessions, and videos from EPA's 2021 International Decontamination Research & Development Conference.
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Considering Trade-offs in Contamination Cleanup Webinar
EPA's ORD offers free public webinars on recent research results. Watch a webinar on the Trade-off Tool for Sampling, a GIS-based tool to help responders develop sampling plans and consider the costs and trade-offs during contamination cleanup/response.
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Cesium’s Interaction in the Built Environment
EPA experimentally assessed the migration of cesium into urban materials, including asphalt, brick, concrete, limestone, and granite.
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Chemical Fate & Transport
EPA conducts research to help responders and decision makers understand the fate and transport of chemical warfare agents (CWAs) so that they can minimize human health effects and environmental impacts following the release of a CWA.
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Contaminant Fate, Transport & Exposure
Large scale contamination incidents can affect a wide variety of surfaces, environments, and infrastructure. Knowledge of the persistence, life cycle, and movement of of these contaminants can help inform sampling, cleanup, and remediation decisions.
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Research Topics
Topic areas for EPA's Emergency Response Research
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Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest System Advisory Board Meeting –“Looking Ahead: Setting e-Manifest Program Priorities and User Fees for FY2022 and FY2023” - March 2-4, 2021
Includes agenda, board roster, presentation, charge questions, background paper and advisory board meeting transcript.
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Industrial Waste Management Evaluation Model Version 3.1
IWEM is a screening level ground water model designed to simulate contaminant fate and transport. IWEM v3.1 is the latest version of the IWEM software, which includes additional tools to evaluate the beneficial use of industrial materials
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Meet EPA Biologist Shannon Griffin, MS
Shannon Griffin has developed novel methods which utilize salivary antibody responses as non-invasive indicators of infection from environmental pathogens. This work is being expanded to measure antibodies in saliva against SARS-CoV-2
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Vessel Decontamination
Page describing the vessel decontamination task in the AnCOR project
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Building Resiliency: Emergency Water Treatment System Webinar
Description, presenter bios, and link to a recording of a research webinar on the EPA/WaterStep Water on Wheels Cart.
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COVID-19: UV-C Devices and Methods for Surface Disinfection Webinar
Description, presenter bios, and link to a recording of a research webinar on UV-C Devices and Methods for Surface Disinfection of COVID-19.
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Virtual Reality: A Training Tool for Biological Sampling Webinar
Description and recording of the Virtual Reality Training Tool webinar, part of EPA's Emergency Response Research Webinar Series.
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EPA celebrates 100 days with 100 environmental actions
EPA Southeast worked with state and local partners on clean up following natural disasters in Kentucky and North Carolina and much more.
EPA News Release: EPA celebrates 100 days with 100 environmental actions