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Protecting Children's Environmental Health

  • Funding Opportunities to Protect Children's Health

    Environmental Justice grants' deadlines extended to April 14th. 

    Historic investments are being made to strengthen infrastructure, tackle climate change, protect our children and create a more equitable future.

    Learn more about how your children's health organizations can participate! 

    Children's Health Grants and Funding Opportunities

  • Exploring the Latest Research

    EPA contracted the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to explore new research, furthering our understanding of how to best improve and protect children’s environmental health.

    The proceedings report from this workshop and an interactive online overview are now available. 

    Read Highlights from the Report

  • Fight Childhood Asthma with the Breathe Easies

    This kids asthma-rock band uses sweet tunes to help teach us how to stop asthma triggers at home.

    Learn More

  • America’s Children and the Environment (ACE)

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

    Learn About 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.


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!
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  • Children and Natural Disasters
  • Childhood Lifestages

What EPA is Doing

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  • 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)  
  • Children’s Health Month Resources
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  • Guidance, tools and glossary of key terms

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    • Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit

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  • Healthy School Environments
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    • Student Curriculum: Recipes for Healthy Kids and a Healthy Environment
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  • 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
  • Indoor Air Quality
  • Climate Change
    • Children's Health
    • Pregnant and Postpartum Women’s Health

EPA Children's Health News

  • EPA Celebrates Children’s Health Month, Highlighting Unprecedented Investment in Protecting Children’s Health 
  • EPA Celebrates 25 Years of Children’s Environmental Health 
  • 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 March 21, 2023
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