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Between September 2023 and May 2025, EPA successfully led three comprehensive trainings—one with each of USCG’s strike force teams: Pacific, Gulf, and Atlantic. More than 100 Coast Guard participants received technical instruction, hands-on practice with biological sa...

Over the past few decades, technical advances have been made in the destruction of chemical warfare agents (CWAs) due to an enhanced understanding of reaction chemistries. This review focuses on summarizing the deactivation of the following CWAs: sulfur mustard (HD), sarin (GB), ...

Using technologies that emit ultraviolet-C (UVC) radiation to inactivate pathogens has gained increasing interest as a strategy for reducing the risk of disease transmission, but it can be difficult to predict their performance in applied settings. Directly irradiating occupied s...

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Illicit fentanyl activities can lead to complex contamination incidents which create exposure risks to law enforcement, emergency responders, remediation contractors, and the public. The objective of this presentation is to provide an overview of conducted research in support of ...

Illicit fentanyl activities can lead to complex contamination incidents which create exposure risks to law enforcement, emergency responders, remediation contractors, and the public. The objective of this presentation is to provide an overview of conducted research in support of ...

Illicit fentanyl activities can lead to complex contamination incidents which create exposure risks to law enforcement, emergency responders, remediation contractors, and the public. The objective of this presentation is to provide an overview of conducted research in support of ...

This is a dataset of malathion washoff data from experiments performed using a rainfall simulator. Two types of malathion - a technical (off-the shelf insecticide) and an analytical grade - were used in this study. They were applied to either concrete or asphalt coupons and allow...

A chemical warfare agent (CWA) incident will trigger a need for cleanup, especially for the more persistent CWAs. This presentation provides advanced training for the EPA on-scene coordinators on CWA infrastructure remediation / cleanup and associated clearance strategies. EPA re...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) strives to protect human health and the environment from adverse impacts resulting from incidents involving naturally occurring pathogens or the intentional release of biological threat agents. Over the last 15 years several interage...

The Office of Research and Development within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is conducting research to evaluate the impact of changing test methodologies on the effectiveness of ultraviolet (UV) devices, including those that emit Far-UVC, against microorganisms on...

The Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)'s U.S. European Command Operations Division Forward (BPEE) requested EPA expertise in the execution of a CBRN Environmental Subject Matter Expert Exchange (SMEE) with the Government of Kosovo occurring on 18-2...

Building occupants face diverse biological threats, from intentional attacks with biological agents (e.g., weaponized spores), to contagious diseases. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an increasing awareness of and interest in mitigation strategies for reducin...

Over the past three years, since the rise of COVID and its many variants, EPA has conducted a wide array of environmental public health research aimed to better understand COVID transmission, methods for protection and prevention from COVID transmission, and strategies for monito...

The Analysis for Coastal Operational Resiliency (AnCOR) program was an interagency effort involving the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T), and the United States Coast Guard (USCG). Thi...

The primary objective of the Analysis for Coastal Operational Resiliency (AnCOR) Systems for Helping Inform Practice and Protocol (SHIPP) training is to train USCG personnel and refine both existing and newly developed systems to bolster the USCG's ability to respond to biol...

The COVID-19 pandemic has raised interest in technologies that are intended to reduce concentrations of infectious aerosols, which can potentially reduce the risk of disease transmission and improve overall indoor air quality, through either pathogen capture or inactivation. It h...

Technologies that can reduce concentrations of airborne microorganisms through either particle capture or inactivation are important tools for reducing the risk of disease transmission and improving overall indoor air quality. The effectiveness of these technologies is tested in ...

This presentation provides an overview of EPA’s role in a fentanyl response and demonstrate sampling and decontamination approaches based on results from research that was initiated to fill select gaps identified during the development of EPA’s Fentanyl Fact Sheet for...

This webinar will explore the critical role of effective data management in disaster response, particularly in the context of environmental sampling and contamination incidents. By providing a comprehensive overview of data management processes, tools and best practices, we will ...

This product is a presentation to the American Association of Pesticide Control Officials. The presentation provides a background on the occuring mis and overuse of pesticides in the indoor envrionmenton pesticides. Each case requires sampling of materials and information of effe...

Motivated by the COVID-19 pandemic, research was conducted to evaluate devices potentially capable of inactivating SARS-CoV-2 on surfaces found in the built environment, to augment chemical-based surface disinfection approaches. (Far-) UVC radiation is a well-described inactivati...

This is a presentation for an EPA ORD CESER emergency response seminar series webinar. The product contains the slides that will be used to communicate the major purpose, methods, and results from a field-scale test conducted in May 2022. The field-scale test, called the AnCOR Wi...

Chemical warfare agents (CWA), chemicals developed to cause intentional harm or death through their toxic properties, remain a threat to the United States and other countries. EPA is enhancing the nation’s ability to respond to and recover from a potential chemical agent in...