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• - Information on the Mercury Rule including information on the benefits, regulatory actions, and technical information.
  
• - A comprehensive environmental laboratory applying advanced methods for measuring environmental radioactivity.
  
• - Working to significantly reduce electric utilities' emissions of the pollutants responsible for acid deposition. Includes a system of tradable SO2 emissions allowances: a landmark use of market incentives in environmental protection.
  
• - Reduces greenhouse gases through energy-efficiency and cost-effective partnerships with industries in all sectors of our economy where emissions reductions can be achieved.
  
• - Engages developing countries to build support for integrated planning to both address local environmental concerns and, secondarily, reduce associated global greenhouse gas emissions.
  
• - Information on manufacturers and retailers for energy-efficient electronics, lighting, transformers, appliances, office equipment, and heating/cooling systems.
  
• - Provides detailed information to the various EPA programs associated with radiation protection activities.
  
• - Information on CAIR including regulatory and emission information.
  
• - Miles per gallon (mpg) information from vehicle testing done at the EPA's National Vehicle and Fuel Emissions Laboratory and by vehicle manufacturers.
  
• - Air pollution from motor vehicles, fuels, and nonroad equipment. Formerly Office of Mobile Sources.
  
• - The Indoor Environments Division (IED) coordinates research and develops and implements policies regarding the impact of indoor air pollutants on the general public.
  
• - Ranks vehicles according to the EPA emission standards that the vehicles have been designed to meet throughout their lifetime.
  
• - Blue Ribbon Panel for reviewing the use of MTBE and other oxygenates in gasoline.
  
• - Information about the science of ozone depletion, regulations in the US designed to protect the ozone layer, and information for the general public.
  
• - EPA's AirData website provides access to annual summaries of ambient air monitoring data and air pollutant emissions estimates.
  
• - Information on secondhand smoke.
  
• - Helps educators raise sun safety awareness for grades K-8.
  
• - Information about common indoor asthma triggers and how to avoid them. Get the latest news from the Environmental Protection Agency on how to help you or your child's asthma.
  
• - Quick access to "what's new this week," "breaking news," and "hot topic" air & radiation information. Gateway to Air Pollution Information.
  
• - Regulatory information, access to transportation and mobile source incentive-based program information and tools, technical assistance, and other information on preventing/reducing air pollution from transportation.
  
• - Federal Government's principal program to control air pollution from motor vehicles. Primary responsibilities include developing programs to reduce mobile source related air pollution; evaluating emission control technology; testing vehicles, engines, and
  
• - Senior-level policy committee established in 1990 to advise the U.S. EPA on issues related to implementing the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.