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• Clean, Green and Healthy Tribal Schools Webinar Series
  Jan. 18 - Feb. 22, 2012
• New Partners for Smart Growth Conference
  San Diego
  Feb. 2-4, 2012
• North Bay Watershed Association Conference: "Climate Change: How Can We Be Ready?"
  Petaluma CA
  April 13, 2012

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A Strategy for the San Joaquin Valley

Jared Blumenfeld rides the rails to announce a plan for cleaning up the air and water in the nation's most productive agricultural region.

• San Joaquin Valley Strategic Plan
• Stockton Record: EPA Keeps Valley Front, Center

An Innovative Method in Packaging

Adam Lowry, the co-founder of Method, the home cleaning products company, discusses crowd-sourcing, sustainability, and creating a consumer revolution.

• Listen to the Conversation

Green Chemistry Collaboration

EPA's partnership with California supports innovation in green chemistry to create safer chemicals for products used in homes, schools, and businesses.

• SciTech Daily: EPA and DTSC Push for Safer Consumer Products
• Tour of Kaiser Health Care Center
• EPA's Green Chemistry Program

The 25th Toxics Release Inventory (TRI)

TRI is an important part of the Emergency Preparedness and Community Right to Know Act, which is 25 years old. TRI increases the public's access to information on chemicals at individual facilities, their uses, and releases into the environment.

• Elko Daily Free Press: Nevada's Toxic Releases Up 161 Percent
• More about TRI