Protecting Children's Environmental Health
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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
- Publications
- Guidance, tools and glossary of key terms
Teacher, Parent and Caregiver Resources
Key Topics
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