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Incorporating Sustainability in the US Environmental Protection Agency

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In 2011, an expert committee under the Science and Technology for Sustainability (STS) Program released a report for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) presenting a framework for incorporating sustainability into EPA’s principles and decision making. The framework is intended to help the agency better assess the social, environmental, and economic impacts of various options as it makes decisions. This report builds on existing sustainability efforts that EPA’s Office of Research and Development has conducted by strengthening the analytic and scientific basis for sustainability as it applies to human health and environmental protection within the Agency’s decision-making process.

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development (ORD) has been working to create programs and examining applications in a variety of areas in order to better incorporate sustainability. To further strengthen the analytic and scientific basis for sustainability as it applies to human health and environmental protection, an ad hoc committee under the Science and Technology for Sustainability Program (STS) will conduct a study and prepare a report that will answer the following questions.

  1. What should be the operational framework for sustainability for EPA?
  2. How can the EPA decisionmaking process rooted in the risk assessment/risk management (RA/RM) paradigm be integrated into this new sustainability framework?
  3. What scientific and analytical tools are needed to support the framework?
  4. What expertise is needed to support the framework?

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Marina Moses

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