Pollution Prevention in Action: Webinar Series with EPA Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention
Join Jennie Romer, EPA Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pollution Prevention, on the second Wednesday of the month as we hear from businesses, Pollution Prevention grantees, and other experts about innovations and successes in implementing source reduction strategies to advance sustainability across sectors. The Agency’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention webinar series will run through August 2024, covering key sustainability topics from reducing/eliminating PFAS in products to source reduction solutions in industrial sectors.
June 12, 2024, 2-3 p.m. EST: Putting the Brakes on Pollution in Automotive Maintenance and Repair
Join Jennie Romer, EPA’s Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pollution Prevention, on June 12, 2024, from 2-3 p.m. ET, for a webinar on successes and challenges preventing pollution in automotive maintenance and repair. Learn about P2 projects funded by EPA that have reduced the use of toxic substances, conserved resources and increased the use of cleaner solvents at automotive maintenance and repair businesses. Speakers from EPA P2 grantees, including state agencies and public universities, will discuss the successes and challenges in the sector and efforts to increase pollution prevention, particularly in disadvantaged communities.
Speakers:
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Ashley Waldron, Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
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Cris Brazil, Kansas State University
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Jane Paulson, Minnesota Technical Assistance Program
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David Norris, EPA Pollution Prevention program
Additional webinars will be added soon!
Past Webinars
May 8, 2024: Reducing PFAS in Products: Progress and Challenges
This webinar examined EPA’s PFAS Strategic Roadmap and a new online tool for EPA’s Recommendations of Specifications, Standards, and Ecolabels for Federal Purchasing that highlights how standards and ecolabels address PFAS. Speakers from EPA, EPA grantees, and a nonprofit organization discussed the progress they have made to increase the availability and use of products without PFAS, and the challenges that remain.
April 10, 2024: Moving the Needle on Reuse: Reusable Food Service Ware (Part 1)
This webinar covered the growing use of reusable food service ware, an important strategy for preventing pollution, how EPA is supporting businesses and nonprofit organizations to incorporate reusable food service ware into their operations and how sports and entertainment venues are replacing single-use plastic with reusables.
March 13, 2024: Using EPA’s Sustainable Procurement Tools to Achieve Sustainability Goals
This webinar focused on how EPA’s sustainable procurement tools can help government and institutional purchasers meet sustainability goals and mandates and reviewed a new interactive tool for EPA’s Recommendations of Specifications, Standards, and Ecolabels, showing how it can identify the ecolabels that address PFAS and plastics. Industry experts and EPA grantees spoke about how they incorporate these resources in their work.