Definition of Environmental protection agency

1. Noun. An independent federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.

Exact synonyms: Epa
Generic synonyms: Independent Agency

Medical Definition of Environmental protection agency

1. The U.S. Regulatory agency for biotechnology of microbes. The major lawsunder which the agency has regulatory powers are the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide act (FIFRA), and the Toxic Substances ControlAct (TSCA). (30 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Environmental Protection Agency

environment division
environmental
environmental condition
environmental ethics
environmental exposure
environmental health
environmental illness
environmental impact statement
environmental medicine
environmental microbiology
environmental monitoring
environmental output
environmental pollutants
environmental protection
environmental protection agency (current term)
environmental psychology
environmental quality objective
environmental quality standard
environmental refugee
environmental science
environmental scientist
environmental scientists
environmental tobacco smoke
environmental variance
environmentalism
environmentalist
environmentalists
environmentally
environmentally friendly

Literary usage of Environmental protection agency

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hazards Ahead: Managing Cleanup Worker Health and Safety at the Nuclear (1993)
"23 US environmental protection agency, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency ... 40 US environmental protection agency-Labor Health and Safety Task Force, ..."

2. Managing Industrial Solid Wastes from Manufacturing, Mining, Oil and Gas by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"US environmental protection agency, Report to Congress: Wastes From the ... US environmental protection agency, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response ..."

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