Office of Research and Development Environmental Protection Agency Independent Agencies Government United States
Office of Research and Development Environmental Protection Agency Independent Agencies Government United States
Office of Research and Development
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- Scientific and technological arm of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. ORD is organized around a basic strategy of risk assessment and risk management to remediate environmental and human health problems.
- Information on models including a knowledge base and documents related to the Council.
- IRIS is an EPA database of human health effects that may result from exposure to various substances found in the environment.
- Conducts and sponsors studies and provides information on stressor sources; pollutant transport, transformations and exposure; and source-to receptor predictive exposure models for environmental stressors.
- NRMRL conducts research into ways to prevent and reduce risks from pollution that threaten human health and the environment.
- NCEA is EPA's national resource center for the overall process of human health and ecological risk assessments; the integration of hazard, dose-response, and exposure data and models to produce risk characterizations.
- Data on the performance of innovative technologies intended to solve a wide range of pollution problems.
- Encourages the development and implementation of (1) innovative treatment technologies for hazardous waste site remediation and (2) monitoring and measurement.
- An EPA catalog with thousands of science activities such as research, technical assistance and assessments, along with more than 750 peer-reviewed products.
- Researches, develops, and demonstrates air pollution prevention and control technologies for manufacturing and processing industries, power plants, incinerators, indoor environments, and sources of greenhouse gases.
- EPA's focal point for scientific research on the effects of contaminants and environmental stressors on human health and ecosystem integrity.
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