Playing By The Rules
About the author: Karen Reshkin manages the Web site in EPA’s Chicago office. She’s been there since 1991, and can still remember life before the Internet. A few weeks ago, I declared that I’d try to...
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Bike to Work Day
About the Author: Pat Childers is a Senior Advisor in the Office of Air and Radiation who has spent over 1/2 his life promoting Clean Transportation choices for the American public. Pat currently...
View ArticleThank you 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, you have enhanced my autumn...
By Cindy Walke This fall marks the 20th anniversary of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments and as an avid horsewoman, the anniversary highlights why autumn is still my favorite time of year. I’m able to...
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Women in Science: Clean Air and Women’s Health
By Gina McCarthy For Women’s History Month, I wouldn’t be doing my part if I didn’t get you to think a little about clean air and how important it is to women in the U.S. and all over the world. We’ve...
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Protecting the Public from Power Plant Air Toxics
By Ellen Kurlansky I will admit that there were times in the past decade and one-half that I feared we would never reduce toxic emissions from power plants . Last month, EPA proposed a regulation to...
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Our Environment: Your View
By Jeanethe Falvey I could not take my eyes off the jar of brown water and the woman’s face outside her home in Licking County Ohio, the scuttled Volkswagen in Jamaica Bay, New York, or the black smoke...
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Criminal Enforcement: Protecting Our Nation’s Air, Land, and Water From...
By Henry E. Barnet When people think of EPA, they often think of Birkenstock-clad activists working to protect remote vistas. The image that doesn’t immediately pop into people’s minds is one of...
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A Healthy Family, A Healthy Community
by Jose Lozano “We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors: we borrow it from our children.” Native American proverb… My position at the Environmental Protection Agency allows me to observe...
View ArticleRecognizing Asthma Awareness Month and Community Asthma Leaders
By Gina McCarthy May first is World Asthma Day and the start of Asthma Awareness Month. Each year EPA takes this opportunity to amplify its public awareness campaign, strengthen its partnerships with...
View ArticleFueling our Future
By Bob Perciasepe, Acting Administrator This month EPA took an important next step to ensure that the cars of the future are not only the most fuel efficient, environmentally friendly and...
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Working Together to Tackle Environmental Challenges
By Walker Smith The United Nations Environment Program Compound in Nairobi, Kenya, where the first meeting of the United Nations Environment Assembly of the UNEP, or UNEA, was held. As I sat in traffic...
View ArticleClean Power Plan: Power Plant Compliance and State Goals
EPA’s historic Clean Power Plan, is a first-of-its-kind step to cut the harmful carbon pollution fueling climate change from our nation’s power plants based on more than two years of extensive...
View ArticleEPA’s Rigorous Auto Oversight Will Get Even Stronger
By Christopher Grundler, Director, Office of Transportation and Air Quality Last month, Volkswagen admitted to EPA and the California Air Resources Board that the company employed a sophisticated...
View ArticleWorking Together to Implement the Clean Power Plan
By Gina McCarthy This summer, EPA issued our historic Clean Power Plan, one of the largest steps America has ever taken to combat climate change and protect future generations. The Plan puts the U.S....
View ArticleIn 2016, We’re Hitting the Ground Running
By Gina McCarthy Heading into 2016, EPA is building on a monumental year for climate action—and we’re not slowing down in the year ahead. Last August, President Obama announced the final Clean Power...
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A New Subway Line to Green the Apple
Want to know more? Visit the Second Avenue Subway Community Information Center at 1628 Second Ave. By Elias Rodriguez Quickly navigating New York City’s mass transit system requires time, forethought...
View ArticlePreventing and Better Preparing for Emergencies at Chemical Plants is Job One
By Mathy Stanislaus The chemical industry provides critical products we use every day, creates jobs, and is a staple of the U.S. economy. While numerous chemical plants operate safely, in the past 10...
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Protecting Our Nation’s Treasured Vistas
By Administrator Gina McCarthy Why do we enjoy exploring our national parks? Nature. Peace. Quiet. Solitude. But at the top of the trail, it’s all about the view. And there’s nothing like being in one...
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Taking Stock of EPA’s Work Helping the Mystic River
By Curt Spalding, Regional Administrator, US EPA New England Today’s blog post celebrates the great work done by EPA and many partners to improve water quality in Boston’s urban waters. EPA has focused...
View ArticleRemembering an Environmental and Public Health Pioneer
By A. Stanley Meiburg I remember meeting Leon Billings only once—at National Airport in 1984. I was traveling as staff to then-Deputy Administrator Al Alm, when he walked over to a...
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