Pacific Southwest
Progress Report, 2012

Our annual report on regional accomplishments and challenges is now available!

 

• 2012 NGWA Ground Water Summit: Innovate and Integrate
  Garden Grove, CA
  May 6-10, 2012
• The Contribution of Epigenetics in Pediatric Environmental Health
  San Francisco
  May 30-June 1, 2012

 

National Drug
Take-Back Initiative
April 28, 2012

 

 

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Lisa Jackson's Earth Week Visit With Students

During Earth Week, Lisa Jackson visited southern California and met with students conducting marine sampling at the Port of Los Angeles. She also presented high school students with the President's Environmental Youth Award for their work on the issue of large container ships killing whales in the Santa Barbara channel.

• Long Beach Post: EPA Chief Visits Port for Earth Day
• Everything Long Beach: U.S. EPA Awards High School Students for Efforts to Protect Whales

Engaging on the Environment

Blogs, online contests, campaigns, and photography projects are all venues for individuals, communities, and organizations to share stories and express environmental concerns and successes. They are an important part of EPA's commitment to expand the conversation on environmentalism.

• Greenversations
• It's Our Environment - Six Words for the Planet
• It All Starts with Science - People, Prosperity and the Planet
• Greenquest Challenges
• State of the Environment Photo Project

Cleanup in Compton

A $1.3 million dollar pilot project aimed at assessing 29 abandoned sites along the I-170 was initiated with the removal of three underground tanks, which held fuel, at an old gas station in Compton, Calif. EPA and the state water boards will assess the level of environmental cleanup required to make these sites available for reuse.

• KPCC: EPA Launches Tank Excavation at Abandoned Sites
• More Information

Partnership with Arizona State University

EPA and ASU signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on increasing outreach to diverse and underserved communities by offering internships, joint projects, and scientific research opportunities to ASU students and faculty.

• More Information and Photo