This document is a product of the ECOS and Department of Defense Sustainability Work Group. The purpose of this document is to provide information and resources on the issues pertaining to…
Chemicals & Emerging Contaminants
2016 Spring Meeting Materials
Our 2016 Spring Meeting was held in Nashville, TN on April 10-13. Here you can find session materials, a registration list, and helpful links provided by the speakers.
California Uses EPA Toxics Information and Tools to Evaluate Health Effects
California’s Department of Toxic Substances Control and Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment are collaborating with EPA ORD on the following projects: 1) using EPA ORD’s new technologies and computational…
Washington’s Local Source Control Partnership – Local Pollution Prevention Focused on Small Business
Description of Initiative: What do mercury, flame retardants, and polychlorinated biphenyls have in common? All of these persistent chemicals, and many other toxics, have been detected in Washington State’s waterways.…
Status of TRI Programs
This report provides background on EPCRA and TRI Section 313 and profiles the National Environmental Information Exchange Network and the TDX. In addition, it addresses the status of state TRI…
Identification and Selection of Toxicity Values/Criteria for CERCLA and Hazardous Waste Site Risk Assessments in the Absence of IRIS Values
The ECOS-DoD Sustainability Work Group’s Emerging Contaminants Task Group prepared this paper based on discussions held at the February 2006 Work Group meeting that identified the selection of toxicity values/criteria…
