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. 2024 Sep:2024:7-11.

Tackling Cumulative Impacts: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Whole-of-Agency Approach

Nicolle S Tulve  1 , Sarah L Mazur  1 , Charles Lee  2 , Helen Serassio  3 , Ann Wolverton  4 , Alan Walts  5 , Sean J Paul  1 , Susan H Julius  1 , Aaron Ferster  1 , H Christopher Frey  1 ; United States Environmental Protection Agency
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Tackling Cumulative Impacts: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Whole-of-Agency Approach

Nicolle S Tulve et al. EM (Pittsburgh Pa). 2024 Sep.

Abstract

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) is embracing a whole-of-Agency approach to understand and address cumulative impacts-the totality of exposures to both chemical and non-chemical stressors-to meet its mission to protect human health and the environment, and to fulfill Executive Orders aimed at advancing environmental justice.

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Conflict of interest: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence this work.

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