Documents/EPA/Values


  • Value [1] Results and Accountability
    • EPA is committed to being a good steward of our environment and a good steward of America’s tax dollars. To provide the public with the environmental results it expects and deserves, we must operate as efficiently and effectively as possible. Accountability for results is a key component of the President’s Management Agenda, designed to make government citizen-centered, results-oriented, and market-based.

  • Value [2] Innovation and Collaboration
    • Our progress depends both on our ability and continued commitment to identify and use innovative tools, approaches, and solutions to address environmental problems and to engage extensively with our partners, stakeholders, and the public. Under each of our goals, we are working to promote a sense of environmental stewardship and a shared responsibility for addressing today’s challenges.

  • Value [3] Best Available Science
    • EPA needs the best scientific information available to anticipate potential environmental threats, evaluate risks, identify solutions, and develop protective standards. Sound science helps us ask the right questions, assess information, and characterize problems clearly to inform Agency decision makers.