The mission of the Department of the Interior is to protect and provide access to our Nation's natural and cultural heritage and honor our trust responsibilities to tribes. EPA's Brownfields Initiative will empower States, communities, and other stakeholders in economic development to work together in a timely manner to prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse brownfields. This web site includes policy and guidance on enforcement and compliance issues which is either statute-specific or applicable to all or some statutes. This website serves as a pointer to environmental justice activities at EPA and other federal agencies. We protect human health and the environment by ensuring responsible national management of hazardous and nonhazardous waste.
Individual states adopt federal standards and operate their own waste management programs.
United States Fish and Wildlife Service A bureau within the Department of the Interior. Our mission, working with others, is to conserve, protect, and enhance fish and wildlife and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. The U.S. Geological Survey provides the Nation with reliable, impartial information to describe and understand the Earth. The Environmental Management Technical Center is located in Onalaska, Wisconsin. The Environmental Center freely shares a wide range of biological, physical, spatial, and technical data and information relating to the Upper Mississippi River System.