Kansas City, Kansas - Archive

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Science and Technology Center

This page houses older environmental information about EPA's Science and Technology Center in Kansas City, Kansas. View the laboratory's current facility page.

In November 2004, EPA entered into a three-year contract (procured by the Western Area Power Administration ), with Aquila, Inc. to purchase 3.85 million kilowatt hours (kWh) of green power annually in the form of renewable energy certificates. This contract supported the generation of wind electricity from the Gray Country Wind Farm near Montezuma, Kansas. The purchase offset 100 percent of the electricity consumption at EPA's Science and Technology Center.

EPA's Region 7 laboratory in Kansas City, Kansas, was one of the projects featured at the Science Forum in Washington, DC, in May 2004. The Forum, sponsored by EPA's Office of Research and Development, highlighted cutting-edge technologies. View the Science and Technology Center Forum poster (PDF) (1 pg, 1.0MB).