![[logo] US EPA](../gif/logo_epaseal.gif){kind=logo}
Related Links
Note: EPA no longer updates this information, but it may be useful as a reference or resource.
The following links point to resources on sector-based programs and sector information.
Sector-based Assistance
- Compliance Assistance Centers
: These sector-specific web-based centers help businesses, local governments, and federal facilities understand federal environmental requirements and save money through pollution prevention techniques. - Compliance Assistance Materials (Sector-Based): EPA provides compliance assistance on a sector-by-sector basis to help facilities with similar operations, processes, or practices.
- Environmental Management Systems for Sectors: EPA offers a number of sector-based EMS tools.
- Food Processing Environmental Assistance Center
- Practice Greenhealth : This organization educates health care professionals about pollution prevention opportunities in hospitals and health care systems.
- National Environmental Compliance Assistance Clearinghouse: This clearinghouse provides an online guide to sector-based environmental compliance resources and quick access to compliance assistance tools, contacts, and planned activities from EPA, its partners, and other compliance assistance providers.
- Pollution Prevention Resource Exchange (P2Rx) “Topic Hubs” : These regional pollution prevention information centers provide pollution prevention information, networking opportunities, and other services; the “Topic Hubs” include sector-specific resources.
- Sector Facility Indexing Project: This project compiles environmental data from a number of systems to produce facility-level profiles for five industry sectors (petroleum refining, iron and steel, primary nonferrous metal refining and smelting, pulp manufacturing, and auto assembly).
- Sector Notebook Series: This EPA site offers plain language booklets that describe environmental issues and profiles of major U.S. industrial sectors.
- Small Business Industry Sector Assistance : The Small Business Environmental Home Page (funded in a cooperative agreement with EPA’s Small Business Program) maintains links to industry sector web sites, national compliance assistance centers, and trade association web sites and contact information.
Sector-based Partnerships
|
SmartWay Transport is an innovative collaboration between the freight industry and government to reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, improve fuel efficiency, and strengthen the freight sector. |
|
The Resource Conservation Challenge is a national effort to conserve natural resources and energy by managing materials more efficiently. |
|
Design for the Environment facilitates the identification and adoption of clean products, processes, technologies, and management systems. |
Voluntary Aluminum Industrial Partnership |
Voluntary Aluminum Industrial Partnership improves aluminum production efficiency while reducing perfluorocarbon (PFC) emissions. PFCs are potent greenhouse gases that remain in the atmosphere for thousands of years. |
![[logo] SmartWay Transport](../gif/smart.gif)
Other Sectors that Work with EPA
The following links point to industry activities for sectors not currently participating in the Sector Strategies Program.