Cleaner Water

Recognizing Clean Water Partners

EPA created "Clean Water Partners" in April 2002 to recognize local governments that are going beyond the mandated water regulatory requirements to encourage and achieve greater water protection.

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• Introduction

Cleaner Air

• New Protective Air Quality Standards
• Clear Skies – A Clean Air Act for the 21st Century
• Clean Air Interstate Rule
• Clean Air Nonroad Diesel Rule
• Clean Air Mercury Rule
• Cleaner Fuels and Engines
• Clean School Bus USA Program
• Cleaner Air Partnerships
• Improving New Source Review
• Improving Visibility in America’s National Parks

Addressing Global Climate Change

• Ambitious National Goal to Reduce Emissions Intensity
• Cabinet Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration
• Federal Climate Science Program
• Greenhouse Gas Reduction Initiatives
• Targeted Incentives for Greenhouse Gas Sequestration
• Proposed Guidelines for Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• International Outreach and Partnerships
• President’s Initiative Against Illegal Logging
• Cleaner, More Efficient Energy Technologies
• Federal Energy and Carbon Sequestration Programs
• Tax Incentives for Renewable Energy and Hybrid and Fuel Cell Vehicles
• Natural Gas Supply
• Nuclear Energy
• Developing Cleaner Coal Technologies
• Fuel Economy Increase for Light Trucks

Cleaner Water

• Expanding and Protecting America’s Wetlands
• Cleaning Up America’s Waters
• Improving Water Quality: TMDLs
• Cleaning the Great Lakes and Controlling Invasive Species
• Cleaning Up the Hudson River
• Reducing Water Pollution from Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations
• Setting Standards for Industrial Sources
• Recognizing Clean Water Partners
• Community-Based Watershed Restoration Partnerships
• Restoring the Klamath Basin
• Rural Water Projects
• Restoring the Everglades
• Destin Dome
• Protecting Marine Ecosystems
• Protecting Coral Reefs
• National Marine Sanctuaries
• Establishing Individual Fishing Quota Systems
• Improving Our Coastal Waters
• Clean Beaches Strategy
• Water Conservation
• Water 2025: Preventing Crises and Conflict in the West

Cleaner Lands

• Reclaiming America’s Brownfields
• Redeveloping Coalfields
• Superfund
• Nuclear Waste Site Cleanup
• Cleaning Up Dangerous Abandoned Coal Mines
• Cleaning Up Leaking Underground Storage Tanks
• Hardrock Mining Rule
• Ensuring Pipeline Safety
• Promoting Recycling and Reducing Hazardous Wastes

Healthier Ecosystems

• An Historic Farm Bill – Doubling Support Conservation on America’s Farms and Ranches
• The Healthy Forests Initiative: Protecting People, Wildlife, and Ecosystems
• Stewardship Contracting
• Protecting our Trees and Forests from Invasive Species
• Interagency Wildland Fire Leadership Council
• Firewise: Helping Homeowners Prevent Catastrophic Wildfires
• National Parks – Restoring the Quality of Our Cultural, Natural, and Historic Resources
• A Commitment to Cooperative Conservation
• Drought and Fire Assistance for Natural Resources
• Protecting our National Wildlife Refuges
• Revitalizing the Land and Water Conservation Fund
• Restoring Healthy Pacific Salmon Populations
• Preserve America
• Take Pride In America
• Landowner Incentive Program
• Private Stewardship Grants Program
• New Wilderness
• Invasive Species
• Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program
• Urban Conservation Treaty for Migratory Birds
• Restoring Declining Species
• Reforestation: Planting Trees on Mined Lands

A Cleaner, Healthier World Community

• A Successful World Summit on Sustainable Development
• Methane to Markets Partnership
• International Partnership for the Hydrogen Economy (IPHE)
• Other International Energy Activities
• Eliminating Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)
• U.S. – Russia Polar Bear Agreement
• Conserving Fish Stocks and Other Living Marine Resources

Healthier People

• Our Children and the Environment
• Reducing Lead Poisoning
• Emergency Reclamation Activities
• Voluntary Children’s Chemical Evaluation Program
• Asthma Research Strategy
• Promoting Food Safety Through Pesticide Management
• Pesticide Risk Assessment
• New Recreational Trails
• Innovation in Action: Performance Track
• Reducing the Generation and Use of Hazardous Substances Through Green Chemistry

President Bush’s Performance-Based FY 2005 Budget

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September 2004

•   PDF File: A Record of Progress