Pollution Prevention in Action: Webinar Series with EPA Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention
Join Jennie Romer, EPA Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pollution Prevention, on the second Wednesday of the month as we hear from businesses, Pollution Prevention grantees, and other experts about innovations and successes in implementing source reduction strategies to advance sustainability across sectors. The Agency’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention webinar series will run through August 2024, covering key sustainability topics from reducing/eliminating PFAS in products to source reduction solutions in industrial sectors.
May 8, 2024, 2 – 3 p.m. EDT: Reducing PFAS in Products: Progress and Challenges
Join Jennie Romer, EPA’s Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pollution Prevention, on May 8, 2024, from 2-3 p.m. ET, for the Reducing PFAS in Products: Progress and Challenges webinar. Learn about EPA’s PFAS Strategic Roadmap and a new online tool for EPA’s Recommendations of Specifications, Standards, and Ecolabels for Federal Purchasing that highlights how standards and ecolabels address PFAS. Speakers from EPA, EPA grantees, and a nonprofit organization will discuss the progress they’ve made increasing the availability and use of products without PFAS, and the challenges that remain.
Speakers:
- Mike Schade, Toxic-Free Future
- Saskia van Bergen, Washington Department of Ecology
- Ning Ai, PhD, University of Illinois, Chicago
- Jenna Larkin, EPA's Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention
- Zach Schafer, EPA's Office of Water
Additional webinars will be added soon!
Past Webinars
April 10, 2024: Moving the Needle on Reuse: Reusable Food Service Ware (Part 1)
This webinar covered the growing use of reusable food service ware, an important strategy for preventing pollution, how EPA is supporting businesses and nonprofit organizations to incorporate reusable food service ware into their operations and how sports and entertainment venues are replacing single-use plastic with reusables.
March 13, 2024: Using EPA’s Sustainable Procurement Tools to Achieve Sustainability Goals
This webinar focused on how EPA’s sustainable procurement tools can help government and institutional purchasers meet sustainability goals and mandates and reviewed a new interactive tool for EPA’s Recommendations of Specifications, Standards, and Ecolabels, showing how it can identify the ecolabels that address PFAS and plastics. Industry experts and EPA grantees spoke about how they incorporate these resources in their work.