Did you know that there are waste management laws enforced both by the federal government and individual states that have the authority to issue fines for improprerly manageed waste?
Click each button below to see the difference in oversight, fines, and violation management between federal agencies and individual states waste management enforcement, both of which are equally important.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is the federal agency with a mission to protect health and the environment.
The EPA develops and enforces regulations based on laws passed by congress, provides grants for programs that support scientific studies, cleanups, and environmental protection education, studies environmental issues, sponsors partnerships with businesses and non-profoits that recognize the importance of protecting health and the environment and informs the public through publications about activites that support the cause for protection.
Examples of environmental topics the EPA covers, include but are not limited to, the following:
To learn more about the EPA, visit https://www.epa.gov/.
Oversight, fines, and violation management differ by state, use this link to visit the EPA website for a look at your state’s environmental health strategies: https://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/health-and-environmental-agencies-us-states-and-territories
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