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Protecting Children's Environmental Health

  • Celebrating 25 Years of Children's Health at EPA

    EPA's Office of Children's Health Protection was established by executive order in 1997, and to this day continues to build on the excellent progress made to confront issues and provide solutions to children's environmental health.

    • Read the news release.
    • Read the Perspectives article.
  • Read EPA’s Revised Policy on Children’s Health

    Originally issued in 1995, the 2021 policy expands the definition of children’s environmental health and reinforces commitment to equity and threats to children’s health caused by climate change.

    Read the 2021 Policy on Children’s Health
  • America’s Children and the Environment (ACE)

    EPA recently updated the ACE report which brings together information from a variety of sources to provide national trends on Children’s Environmental Health.

    See the newly updated ACE indicators

Children are often more vulnerable to pollutants than adults due to differences in behavior and biology, that can lead to greater exposure and/or unique windows of susceptibility during development. Learn more about children's health, the environment, and what you can do.

25 Years of Children's Health at EPA

Where We've Been

Where We're Going


About Children's Health

  • What You Can Do to Protect Children
  • Children's Health Protection Where You Live - EPA's Regions
  • Children are Not Little Adults!
  • Children's Environmental Health Facts
  • Children and Natural Disasters
  • Childhood Lifestages

What EPA is Doing

  • History of Children's Environmental Health Protection at EPA
  • Children's Health Policy and Plan
  • Children’s Health Grants and Funding Opportunities
  • Rules and Regulations
  • Guidelines for Considering Children's Health in Economic Analyses
  • Research
  • Scientific Journal Articles

Children's Health Resources

  • America's Children and the Environment (indicators of children's health report)
  • ExpoKids: An R-based Tool for Characterizing aggregate Chemical Exposure During Childhood
  • Consumer Tool for Identifying POU Drinking Water Filters Certified to Reduce Lead
  • Environmental Health Perspectives - Children's Environmental Health Resource List (NIH)  
  • 2020 Protecting Children’s Health booklet
  • Publications
  • Children’s Health Newsletter (past editions)
  • Guidance, tools and glossary of key terms

Healthcare Provider Resources

  • Healthcare Provider Resources
  • Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSU) 
    • PEHSU National Classroom
    • Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit

Teacher, Parent and Caregiver Resources

  • Healthy School Environments
  • Healthy Child Care
  • Environmental Education
    • Student Curriculum: Recipes for Healthy Kids and a Healthy Environment
  • Managing Asthma

Children's Health Partners and Partnerships

  • Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee (CHPAC)
  • President's Task Force on Environmental Health/Safety Risks to Children (NIH)
  • Healthy Homes Program (HUD)
  • Other key federal agencies and organizations

Key Topics

  • Registered EPA disinfectants for use against COVID-19
  • Lead
    • Federal Action Plan to Reduce Childhood Lead Exposures and Associated Health Impacts
    • Status Report for EPA Actions in Support of the Federal Lead Action Plan
  • Indoor Air Quality

EPA Children's Health News

  • EPA Issues Stronger Lead Regulations to Protect Children’s Health
  • Update to Lead and Copper Rule to Better Protect Children
  • New Curriculum to Protect Children in Indian Country and Communities from Lead Exposure
  • EPA proposal to strengthen regulations and protect children from exposure to lead-contaminated dust
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Last updated on May 17, 2022