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June 9, 2008
EPA Report on the Environment (2008)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released its 2008 Report on the Environment.
The document is public resource to enable understanding of trends and challenges to quality in air, water, land and human health. It seeks to measure progress toward protecting the environment and human health by providing data relevant to planning.
The EPA’s website states,
To accomplish its mission to protect human health and the environment, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must pay close attention to trends in the condition of the nation’s air, water, and land, as well as related trends in human health and ecological systems. To meet this needs, EPA embarked on a bold initiative in 2001 to assemble, for the first time, the most reliable available indicators of national environmental and health conditions and trends that are important to EPA’s mission. EPA initially presented these indicators in its Draft Report on the Environment (ROE) Technical Document (TD), and its publicly oriented companion document the Draft Report on the Environment (ROE), both released in 2003. Since then, EPA has revised, updated, and refined the ROE in response to scientific developments, as well as feedback from EPA’s Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) and stakeholders. As a result, the EPA's 2008 Report on the Environment provides both an update and an improvement over the 2003 draft editions.
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