History of the EPA
Below we serve up glimpses of EPA's history in five different "flavors":
Half Century of Environmental Progress
High school and college students as well as others may not know about the major environmental problems and issues encountered in the United States in the latter half of the 20th century, how they were addressed, and the importance of continued vigilance in attacking remaining and evolving issues. This history of EPA has been written for them."
Half Century of Progress: Overview
From Half Century of Progress: OverviewCategories: Air: General, Air: Mobile, Air: Stationary, Enforcement, International, Pesticides, Regions, Solid Waste, States, Superfund, Toxics, Water: General
EPA Journals
For many years, EPA published the "EPA Journal" with interesting articles on a very wide variety of topics. The Association is slowly digitizing and categorizing these Journals. To date we have digitized 3034 articles. HERE ARE SOME SUGGECTED ARTICLES FOR YOU TO SAMPLE
Industrial Incineration by Chris Perham
From Waste Alert!, Feb. 1979Categories: Industry, Solid Waste
The New Philadelphia Story
From Environment and the Law, Jun. 1980Categories: Enforcement, Solid Waste, Water: General
Collection: The First Step by Bruce R. Weddle
From Recycling: Closing the Loop, Jul. 1992Categories: Solid Waste
Processing: The Unheralded Middleman by Jerry Powell
From Recycling: Closing the Loop, Jul. 1992Categories: Solid Waste
Are Landfills and Incinerators Part of the Problem? Three Viewpoints
From The Garbage: Understanding It, Finding Answers, Mar. 1989Categories: Solid Waste
Hazardous Wastes by Sen. Jennings Randolph
From Waste Alert!, Feb. 1979Categories: Congress, Health, Policy and Planning, Solid Waste, Superfund, Toxics
A Neighborhood's Creativity by Robert W. Pierson, Jr. and Gregg Sekscienski
From Who Needs the Feds! Environmental Succes Stories from Grassroots America, Nov. 1989Categories: Local Programs, Solid Waste
The Environmental Challenges of Our Cities by Lee M. Thomas
From Cities and the Environment, May. 1988Categories: Management of Agency, Solid Waste
A Perspective from EPA by William K. Reilly
From The World Economy and the Environment: A New Relationship, Jul. 1990Categories: Education, International, Management of Agency, Solid Waste, Water: Wetlands
Waste-to-Steam Plant Slated for New York
From A Look Ahead, Jan. 1982Categories: Solid Waste, States
For the Classroom: A Lesson Plan on Recycling
From Recycling: Closing the Loop, Jul. 1992Categories: Children, Education, Solid Waste
Changing Perspectives: Win/Win on the Environmental Front by Frederic Krupp
From EPA: The First Twenty Years, The Bald Eagle: A Treasure Preserved, Sep. 1990Categories: Solid Waste
From Lumber to Lampshades by Kathrin Day Lassila
From Recycling: Closing the Loop, Jul. 1992Categories: Solid Waste
Alternative Waste Disposal: An Interview with Abby Rockefeller
From The Environmentalists, Apr. 1978Categories: Solid Waste, Water: General
A Tale of One City by Liz Chandler
From Recycling: Closing the Loop, Jul. 1992Categories: Solid Waste
Update
From A Conserving Society, Mar. 1980Categories: Budget, Enforcement, Lead, Management of Agency, Pesticides, Solid Waste, States, Superfund
Update
From Recreation and the Environment, Jun. 1979Categories: Air: Mobile, Enforcement, International, Pesticides, Solid Waste, Toxics, Water: Drinking
Highlights of the Federal Environmental Effort: A Fact Sheet
From The Federal Effort, Sep. 1980Categories: Air: General, CEQ, Pesticides, Radiation, Research, Solid Waste, States, Toxics, Water: General
The City Link by Alan Beals
From The Vermont Story, May. 1979Categories: Local Programs, Policy and Planning, Solid Waste
Update
From Waste Alert!, Feb. 1979Categories: Air: Mobile, Children, Enforcement, Industry, Pesticides, Solid Waste, Toxics, Water: Drinking
Cleaning Up in New Jersey by John J. Degnan and Steven A. Tasher
From Environment and the Law, Jun. 1980Categories: Enforcement, Policy and Planning, Solid Waste, States, Toxics
Around the Nation
From Recreation and the Environment, Jun. 1979Categories: Children, Enforcement, Public, The, Regions, Solid Waste, States
Region 10 Report by Douglas Dubois
From A Tribute to Rachel Carson, Nov. 1978Categories: Air: General, Industry, Regions, Solid Waste, States
News Briefs
From Research on the Plains, Nov. 1976Categories: Air: Mobile, Enforcement, Solid Waste
Taming Chemical Wastes by Douglas M. Costle
From Waste Alert!, Feb. 1979Categories: Enforcement, Management of Agency, Policy and Planning, Research, Solid Waste, Toxics
Needed: Strong Nationwide Regulation by Dr. Charles Johnson
From Waste Alert!, Feb. 1979Categories: Industry, RCRA, Solid Waste, States
The Coastal Environment: Beaches by Kathryn O'Hara
From Can Our Coasts Survive More Growth?, Sep. 1989Categories: Conservation, Solid Waste, Water: General
Five Situation Pieces: Florida by George Kirkpatrick
From The Garbage: Understanding It, Finding Answers, Mar. 1989Categories: Solid Waste, States
Getting Serious in Germany by Cynthia Pollock Shea
From Recycling: Closing the Loop, Jul. 1992Categories: International, Solid Waste
Making It Pay to Cut WAste by Alyce M. Ujihara and Paul R. Portney
From The Garbage: Understanding It, Finding Answers, Mar. 1989Categories: Solid Waste
Controlling Pollution in China by Qu Geping
From Environment and the Law, Jun. 1980Categories: Enforcement, International, Pesticides, Solid Waste, Water: General
New Sponges Found at Ocean Dumpsite
From Research on the Plains, Nov. 1976Categories: Radiation, Solid Waste, Water: General
Will We Be Remembered Because of Our Wastes? by Thomas L. Kimball
From The Environmentalists, Apr. 1978Categories: Solid Waste
Around the Nation
From Energy and the Environment, Apr. 1979Categories: Conservation, Economic Impact, Enforcement, Regions, Solid Waste
A Look Ahead: An Interview with Steffen W. Plehn
From Waste Alert!, Feb. 1979Categories: Management of Agency, Policy and Planning, Public, The, Solid Waste, States
Managing Household Hazardous Wastes by Marcia Williams and Dana Duxbury
From Consumers and the Environment, Apr. 1987Categories: Public, The, Solid Waste, Superfund
Have Minorities Benefited...? A Forum
From Environmental Protection: Has It Been Fair?, Mar. 1992Categories: Air: General, Civil Rights, Congress, Economic Impact, Environmental Justice, Lead, Other Federal Agencies, RCRA, Solid Waste, Superfund, Toxics, Tribes, Water: General
Waste Alert by Carol S. Lawson
From Waste Alert!, Feb. 1979Categories: Education, Public, The, Solid Waste, States
Regulating Hazardous Wastes: An Interview with Rita M. Lavelle
From Protecting America's Land, Jul. 1982Categories: Enforcement, Management of Agency, Policy and Planning, Public, The, RCRA, Solid Waste, States, Superfund
What You Can Do to Help by Eric A. Goldstein
From The Garbage: Understanding It, Finding Answers, Mar. 1989Categories: Public, The, Solid Waste
Ohio Utility Takes a Giant Environmental Step by Jack Lewis
From Toward a Conserving Society, Jul. 1985Categories: Policy and Planning, Solid Waste, States
A Fact Sheet
From Waste Alert!, Feb. 1979Categories: Policy and Planning, Solid Waste, States, Toxics
Speaking of Composting by Gregg Sekscienski
From Recycling: Closing the Loop, Jul. 1992Categories: Solid Waste
Pennsylvania's Environment: It's Assets and Problems by Eleanor W. Winsor
From Environmental Protection: A Look at Pennsylvania; The Administration's Clean Air Principle; Construction Grant Regulation Slash, Sep. 1981Categories: Policy and Planning, Solid Waste, States, Water: General
Meltdown for a Tough One by Gregg Sekscienski
From Who Needs the Feds! Environmental Succes Stories from Grassroots America, Nov. 1989Categories: Industry, Solid Waste
Changes to Speed Hazardous Waste Program
From Dawn of a New Era, Jul. 1983Categories: Management of Agency, RCRA, Solid Waste, States, Superfund
European Waste Management
From Protecting America's Land, Jul. 1982Categories: International, Solid Waste, Toxics
The Challenge of Markets by Michael Alexander
From Recycling: Closing the Loop, Jul. 1992Categories: Solid Waste
Enforcement at the Grassroots
From Environment and the Law, Jun. 1980Categories: Air: General, Enforcement, RCRA, Regions, Solid Waste, States, Water: Drinking
Around the Nation
From Global Perspectives, Feb. 1981Categories: Air: Stationary, Enforcement, Regions, Solid Waste, States, Water: Drinking, Water: General
EPA Roundup: WasteWi$e Off to a Good Start
From Clean Water Agenda: Remaking the Laws that Protect Our Water Resources, Jun. 1994Categories: Prevention, Solid Waste
Trash Plus Coal Plus Sewage Equals Energy
From A Conserving Society, Mar. 1980Categories: RCRA, Solid Waste
Protecting Planes from Birds
From Why Our Wetlands Are Vanishing, Jan. 1977Categories: RCRA, Solid Waste
A "Cradle to Cradle" Debate in Congress by Julie C. Becker
From Recycling: Closing the Loop, Jul. 1992Categories: Congress, RCRA, Solid Waste
Five Situation Pieces: Islip, New York by Frank R. Jones
From The Garbage: Understanding It, Finding Answers, Mar. 1989Categories: Local Programs, Solid Waste
Curbing Feedlot Wastes by Rowena L. Michaels
From EPA and the Farmers, Apr. 1976Categories: Regions, Solid Waste, Water: General
Ocean Disposal of Radioactive Wastes by Robert S. Dyer
From The Endangered Sea, Jul. 1975Categories: Other Federal Agencies, Research, Solid Waste
Appointments and Awards
From Water for Living, Mar. 1982Categories: Enforcement, Management of Agency, Other Federal Agencies, Solid Waste, Superfund
Cooperating with Germany on the Environment by David H. Strother
From Noise and the Environment, Oct. 1979Categories: International, Solid Waste, Toxics
Environment in the Year 2,000 by Truman Temple
From Looking to the Future, May. 1978Categories: CEQ, Climate, Health, Research, Solid Waste
Putting the Crusade into Perspective by William. E. Franklin and Marjorie A. Franklin
From Recycling: Closing the Loop, Jul. 1992Categories: RCRA, Solid Waste
Profit in Protecting the Outdoors by W. William Pritsky
From Our Stake in the Outdoors; Visibility in the National Parks; New EPA Budget Trends, May. 1981Categories: Industry, Solid Waste
Turning a Problem into a Profit by Darby Collins
From Waste Alert!, Feb. 1979Categories: Industry, Local Programs, RCRA, Solid Waste
Source Reduction: Its Meaning and Its Potential by Roy Popkin
From The Garbage: Understanding It, Finding Answers, Mar. 1989Categories: Prevention, Solid Waste
All the King's Horses and All the King's Men... by Michael E. Bell
From Cities and the Environment, May. 1988Categories: RCRA, Solid Waste, Water: General
Industrial Waste: Problem or Profit? by Darby Collins
From New Leadership for EPA, Mar. 1977Categories: Industry, International, Local Programs, Solid Waste
How Japan Is Handling Its Solid Waste by Joanna Underwood
From The Garbage: Understanding It, Finding Answers, Mar. 1989Categories: International, Solid Waste
What Is Recyclable?
From The Garbage: Understanding It, Finding Answers, Mar. 1989Categories: Solid Waste
Around the Nation
From Looking to the Future, May. 1978Categories: Enforcement, Lead, Regions, Research, Solid Waste, States, Water: General
Five Situation Pieces: Indianapolis, Indiana by Beulah Coughenour
From The Garbage: Understanding It, Finding Answers, Mar. 1989Categories: Local Programs, Solid Waste
The Mainstream Environmental Movement by John H. Adams
From Environmental Protection: Has It Been Fair?, Mar. 1992Categories: Air: General, Children, Environmental Justice, Health, Lead, Pesticides, Solid Waste, States, Toxics, Water: Drinking
Update
From Industry and EPA, Jan. 1978Categories: Air: General, Congress, Pesticides, Solid Waste, Water: Drinking
The County Link by Bernard Hillenbrand
From The Vermont Story, May. 1979Categories: Local Programs, Solid Waste, Water: General
Recovering Wastes
From New Leadership for EPA, Mar. 1977Categories: Local Programs, Research, Solid Waste
Plastics: Concerns about a Modern Miracle by Matthew Coco
From Ecology and EPA, Jan. 1988Categories: Solid Waste
Region VIII's Leadership Team
From Quiet, Please!, Sep. 1976Categories: Pesticides, Regions, Solid Waste
When Chickens Die Young by Lee Blackburn
From Who Needs the Feds! Environmental Succes Stories from Grassroots America, Nov. 1989Categories: Regions, Solid Waste
For the Benefit of All by Cliff Jones
From Environmental Protection: A Look at Pennsylvania; The Administration's Clean Air Principle; Construction Grant Regulation Slash, Sep. 1981Categories: Air: General, Policy and Planning, Solid Waste, States, Water: Drinking
Co-Disposal: A New Technology by Betsy Goggin and Michele Hodak
From Technology and the Environment, Sep. 1979Categories: Solid Waste
Choices for Conservation by Barbara Blum
From A Conserving Society, Mar. 1980Categories: Congress, Conservation, RCRA, Solid Waste
Update
From A Tribute to Rachel Carson, Nov. 1978Categories: Air: General, Enforcement, Lead, Pesticides, Research, Solid Waste, Toxics, Water: General
The Love Canal Tragedy by Eckardt Beck
From The Economy and the Environment, Jan. 1979Categories: Public, The, Solid Waste, Toxics
Update
From The Air You Breathe, Oct. 1978Categories: Air: General, Air: Mobile, Pesticides, Solid Waste, States, Water: Drinking, Water: Wetlands
EPA and the Marine Environment
From Protecting the Oceans, Mar. 1981Categories: Pesticides, Policy and Planning, Research, Solid Waste, Toxics
A Forum: How Can We Become Recyclers?
From The Garbage: Understanding It, Finding Answers, Mar. 1989Categories: Congress, Industry, Solid Waste, States
Recycling: A Situation Report by Anne Scheinberg and Trisha Ferrand
From Consumers and the Environment, Apr. 1987Categories: Industry, Public, The, Solid Waste
Five Situation Pieces: East Lyme, Connecticut by Dennis J. Murphy, Jr. and Peter L. Battles
From The Garbage: Understanding It, Finding Answers, Mar. 1989Categories: Local Programs, Solid Waste
Protecting Lake Superior by Truman Temple
From Industry and EPA, Jan. 1978Categories: Enforcement, Health, Research, Solid Waste
A Forum: Will the U.S. Recycling Approach Work?
From Recycling: Closing the Loop, Jul. 1992Categories: Solid Waste
Carter Pledges Strong Backing for Environment
From Carter on the Environment, Jun. 1977Categories: Budget, CEQ, Congress, Industry, Management of Agency, Other Federal Agencies, Solid Waste
Making the New RCRA Work: An Interview with Marcia Williams
From The Challenge of Hazardous Waste, Apr. 1986Categories: Congress, Management of Agency, RCRA, Solid Waste
Siting Problem Discussed by Nancy McKinney
From Waste Alert!, Feb. 1979Categories: Health, Public, The, RCRA, Solid Waste, Toxics
Saving the Grasslands by Rowena Michaels
From America's Lakes, Jul. 1976Categories: Conservation, Regions, Solid Waste
A Burning Answer to a Difficult Question
From Protecting America's Land, Jul. 1982Categories: Policy and Planning, Solid Waste, States
News Briefs
From A Tribute to Rachel Carson, Nov. 1978Categories: CEQ, Congress, Pesticides, Solid Waste
Looking Back; Looking Ahead: EPA by William D. Ruckelshaus
From Earth Day, Jan. 1990Categories: Air: General, Congress, Enforcement, Public, The, Solid Waste, States, Water: General
Pacific Pollution: Trouble in Paradise by Norman Lovelace
From Environmental Perspectives, Dec. 1987Categories: Management of Agency, Solid Waste, Water: Drinking
Urban Guide to EPA
From Cities and the Environment, Feb. 1978Categories: Air: General, Pesticides, Public, The, Radiation, Research, Solid Waste, Water: Drinking, Water: General
The Offshore Environment: What People Are Asking: An Interview with A. James Barnes
From The Marine Environment, Jun. 1988Categories: Solid Waste, Toxics, Water: General, Water: Wetlands
New Approaches to Solid Waste Disposal: An Interview with Sheldon Meyers
From New Leadership for EPA, Mar. 1977Categories: Economic Impact, Education, Management of Agency, Policy and Planning, RCRA, Regions, Solid Waste, States
Strong Incentives for Industrial Recycling by Steffen W. Plehn and Donald Huisingh
From Toward a Conserving Society, Jul. 1985Categories: Industry, Solid Waste
Recycling Municipal Waste
From A Conserving Society, Mar. 1980Categories: Conservation, RCRA, Regions, Solid Waste
The Selling of Waste by William J. Marrazzo
From Environmental Protection: A Look at Pennsylvania; The Administration's Clean Air Principle; Construction Grant Regulation Slash, Sep. 1981Categories: Enforcement, Solid Waste
Good News for Waste Watchers by Roy Popkin
From Earth Day 1995: The 25th Anniversary, Jan. 1995Categories: Solid Waste
Pollution Prevention: An Environmental Goal for the 90s by William K. Reilly
From Earth Day, Jan. 1990Categories: Prevention, Solid Waste, States, Superfund
Skiing and the Environment by John Jerome
From Skiing and the Environment, Purer Drinking Water, Feb. 1977Categories: Solid Waste, Water: General
An Interview with Sylvia Lowrance
From The Garbage: Understanding It, Finding Answers, Mar. 1989Categories: Local Programs, Solid Waste
About Medical Waste by John A. Moore
From The Garbage: Understanding It, Finding Answers, Mar. 1989Categories: Policy and Planning, Solid Waste
EPA and Bio-Energy by Don Lief
From Land and the Environment, Jul. 1980Categories: Air: General, Solid Waste
Update
From Energy and the Environment, Apr. 1979Categories: Air: General, Air: Mobile, Enforcement, Pesticides, Research, Solid Waste, Toxics, Water: General
Turning Throwaways into Opportunity by Tom Tomaszek
From Who Needs the Feds! Environmental Succes Stories from Grassroots America, Nov. 1989Categories: Industry, Solid Waste
Focusing on the Garbage Crisis
From The Garbage: Understanding It, Finding Answers, Mar. 1989Categories: Solid Waste
What's in the Solid Waste Stream? by Jack Lewis
From The Garbage: Understanding It, Finding Answers, Mar. 1989Categories: Solid Waste
The Mounting Sludge Pile by John Heritage
From Protecting Water, Jul. 1978Categories: Health, Solid Waste, Water: General
Living With King Coal: An Interview With Stephen J. Gage
From Carter on the Environment, Jun. 1977Categories: Air: General, Budget, Economic Impact, Other Federal Agencies, Research, Solid Waste
Update
From Noise and the Environment, Oct. 1979Categories: Air: Mobile, Conservation, Enforcement, Health, Pesticides, Solid Waste, Toxics, Tribes, Water: Drinking, Water: General
Update
From Ethics and the Environment, Nov. 1979Categories: Air: Stationary, Enforcement, Pesticides, Research, Solid Waste, States, Toxics, Water: General
When It Doesn't Make the Grade by Edward F. Connelly
From Recycling: Closing the Loop, Jul. 1992Categories: Solid Waste
Mediation: How It Worked in East Troy, Wisconsin by Patti Cronin
From The Garbage: Understanding It, Finding Answers, Mar. 1989Categories: Solid Waste, States
Letter to the Editor
From The Greenhouse Effect: What Can We Do About It?, Mar. 1990Categories: Solid Waste
Solid Waste: Incentives that Could Lighten the Load by Terry Dinan
From Trading for the Future: New Approaches to Environmental Protection, May. 1992Categories: Solid Waste
Administering the Ocean Dumping Act
From The Endangered Sea, Jul. 1975Categories: Enforcement, Solid Waste
Slowing the Waste Behemoth by Bette Fishbein and David Saphire
From Recycling: Closing the Loop, Jul. 1992Categories: Industry, Local Programs, Solid Waste
Five Situation Pieces: Prince George's County, Maryland by Lynda V. Mapes
From The Garbage: Understanding It, Finding Answers, Mar. 1989Categories: Local Programs, Solid Waste
Urgent Responses by the States by Eugene J. Wingerter
From Recycling: Closing the Loop, Jul. 1992Categories: Solid Waste, States
The Impact of Ocean Pollution by Allan Hirsch
From Protecting the Oceans, Mar. 1981Categories: International, Solid Waste, Water: General, Water: Wetlands, Watersheds
Solid Waste: There's a Lot More Coming by William S. Forester
From Cities and the Environment, May. 1988Categories: RCRA, Solid Waste
A Strategy to Control the Garbage Glut by Bruce Weddle and Edward Klien
From The Garbage: Understanding It, Finding Answers, Mar. 1989Categories: Enforcement, Local Programs, Solid Waste
In Our Backyards by Robert D. Bullard
From Environmental Protection: Has It Been Fair?, Mar. 1992Categories: Civil Rights, Regions, Solid Waste
Costle Proposes New Regulations by Truman Temple
From Waste Alert!, Feb. 1979Categories: Management of Agency, Policy and Planning, Solid Waste, Toxics
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