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INNOVATIVE RESEARCH FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE



AIR AND ENERGY NATIONAL RESEARCH PROGRAM

The Clean Air Act has
resulted in one of the most
effective public health
programs in American history
by providing the legislation to
improve air quality in the
United States. The legislation
has led to millions of lives
saved and improved public
and ecosystem health.

Science at the U.S.
Environmental Protection
Agency has played a
prominent role in protecting
health and the environment
from outdoor air pollutants, as
guided by the Act and other
legislation.

The EPA's Air and Energy
National Research Program is
advancing the science critical
to improving air quality and
addressing impacts that are
influenced by changes to the
nation's energy portfolio and
environmental conditions.

Objectives include:

•	Assess human and
ecosystems exposures and
effects associated with air
pollutants at individual,
community, regional, national,
and global scales.

•	Develop and evaluate
approaches to prevent and

reduce air pollution now and
in the future.

•	Provide human exposure and
environmental modeling and
monitoring under changing
environmental scenarios.

•	Deliver state-of-the-art tools
to inform decision making for
current and future
environmental issues at the
national, state, tribal and local
level.

In addition, wildland fire
research is an integrated focus
of the program. EPA is filling
the scientific information gaps
and developing tools and new
approaches to prevent and
reduce the public health and
environmental impacts of
wildfires and prescribed burns.

For more information, visit:

Air Research

http://www2.epa.gov/air-
research

Climate Change Research

http://www2.epa.gov/climate
-research

CONTACT:

Alan Vette, Ph.D.

Acting Air and Energy National

Research Program Director,

919-541-2532,

vette.alan@epa.gov

May 2018

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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Office of Research and Development

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