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Check out the Winners of the ‘Pollution Prevention Works: A Storytelling Challenge for Students’
EPA announced the high school and college student winners of the “Pollution Prevention Works: A Storytelling Challenge for Students.” The winning stories include essays, infographics, videos and a mock newspaper article and highlight how pollution prevention (P2) practices that were implemented at businesses benefitted communities, the environment and the businesses themselves. The winning stories include how a food processor in Texas reduced its nitric acid emissions, how a semiconductor facility in Vermont cut its chemical releases into local waterways, and how improvements at a generating station in New York benefitted public and environmental health in nearby neighborhoods.
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June 20 Deadline to Apply for P2 Grant Opportunity
New YouTube Video: EPA’s Jennie Romer Discusses Safer Choice Program on ‘Ask a House Cleaner’
Watch Jennie Romer, EPA's Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pollution Prevention, discuss EPA's Safer Choice Program on Ask A House Cleaner, a YouTube show for house cleaners, rental property owners and even consumers. This edition of the show explores the importance of EPA’s Safer Choice label and how it identifies products that contain safer ingredients without sacrificing quality or performance, plus how listeners can communicate the benefits of using safer chemical ingredients to their customers.
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Webinar Recordings Now Available: Reducing Embodied Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Construction Materials
Recordings of the lower carbon construction materials webinars are now available on the EPA website. The webinars covered topics related to new programs made possible by a $350 million investment from the Inflation Reduction Act such as a new carbon labelling program for construction materials and products, how to improve data on embodied greenhouse gas emissions and new programs to help businesses calculate and report these emissions.
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New Climate Criteria to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Electronics
The Global Electronics Council recently announced Climate Criteria for its EPEAT ecolabel. Starting in late 2023, products that have been verified to meet these criteria will be listed as Early Adopters on the EPEAT Registry. All products will have to meet the Climate Criteria by December 31, 2025. EPA coordinated comments from federal agencies for the new criteria which includes requirements for public disclosure of climate pollutants, use of renewable energy and energy reduction within the supply chain and during a product’s use. The EPEAT label was developed with support from an EPA grant and federal purchasers are required to procure EPEAT registered electronics.
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Today! Join EPA on June 14th to learn about the Green Chemistry Challenge Awards
If you attend at the 27th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference today in Long Beach, California, be sure to check out a panel led by EPA’s Chen Wen entitled “Green Chemistry Challenge Awards—Past and Present.” For 27 years, the Green Chemistry Challenge Awards have recognized groundbreaking scientific solutions to real-world environmental problems, and have significantly reduced the hazards associated with designing, manufacturing, and using chemicals. The panel will showcase award winners from the current and past years including those that developed new technologies to help reduce or eliminate greenhouse gas emissions.
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P2 Helpline
The P2 Hub Helpline offers information and resources about pollution prevention. Please contact the Helpline at p2hub@epa.gov or (202) 566-0799.
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