Description
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing the 21st Annual P3 Awards, a national student design competition focusing on people, prosperity, and the planet. The P3 Program supports interdisciplinary, faculty-led student teams that use the best available scientific knowledge and research to design and demonstrate innovative solutions that address environmental problems important to the public. The program encourages students to develop innovative technologies that will contribute to improved social, environmental, and economic well-being, especially in communities with the greatest needs.
Some key areas of focus include:
• Clean and Healthy Air: EPA supports research that advances the science and provides the information critical to improving the Nation’s air quality.
• Clean and Safe Water: EPA supports research that advances the science and innovative tools and information needed to protect and restore the Nation’s watersheds, aquatic ecosystems, and water infrastructure.
• Safeguard and Revitalize Communities: EPA supports research that advances the science and innovative technologies needed to remediate and restore the Nation’s most challenging and complex contaminated sites.
• Ensure Safety of Chemicals: EPA supports research for evaluating and predicting impacts from chemical use and disposal and providing states and industries with information, tools, and methods to make better informed and more timely decisions about the thousands of chemicals in the U.S.