Office of Research and Development

EPA Office of Research and Development   - Scientific and technological arm of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. ORD is organized around a basic strategy of risk assessment and risk management to remediate environmental and human health problems.

Air Pollution Prevention & Control Division (APPCD) - Researches, develops, and demonstrates air pollution prevention and control technologies for manufacturing and processing industries, power plants, incinerators, indoor environments, and sources of greenhouse gases.

Council for Regulatory Environmental Modeling - Information on models including a knowledge base and documents related to the Council.

Environmental Technology Verification Program - Data on the performance of innovative technologies intended to solve a wide range of pollution problems.

EPA Science Inventory - An EPA catalog with thousands of science activities such as research, technical assistance and assessments, along with more than 750 peer-reviewed products.

Homeland Security Research - Research focuses on enhancing the ability to detect, contain, and clean up in the event terror attacks such as chemical, biological, and radiological. Site offers news feeds via e-mail, RSS, video, and podcast.

Integrated Risk Information System - IRIS is an EPA database of human health effects that may result from exposure to various substances found in the environment.

National Center for Environmental Assessment (U.S. EPA) - NCEA is EPA's national resource center for the overall process of human health and ecological risk assessments; the integration of hazard, dose-response, and exposure data and models to produce risk characterizations.

National Exposure Research Laboratory (NERL) - Conducts and sponsors studies and provides information on stressor sources; pollutant transport, transformations and exposure; and source-to receptor predictive exposure models for environmental stressors.

National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory (NHEERL) - EPA's focal point for scientific research on the effects of contaminants and environmental stressors on human health and ecosystem integrity.

National Human Health Research Program - The Human Health Research Program at EPA's Office of Research and Development (ORD) provides a strategic approach to develop and evaluate the methods, tools, and data needed to improve risk assessments to protect the public.

National Risk Management Research Laboratory - NRMRL conducts research into ways to prevent and reduce risks from pollution that threaten human health and the environment.

Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation - Encourages the development and implementation of (1) innovative treatment technologies for hazardous waste site remediation and (2) monitoring and measurement.