What are the Office of Policy and the National Center for Environmental Economics at EPA?
The Office of Policy develops new approaches and provides analysis to enable EPA to better address emerging environmental challenges. The office addresses cross-cutting environmental management strategies, identifies emerging issues, and serves as a catalyst for testing and institutionalizing integrative approaches to environmental protection. Within the Office of Policy, EPA’s National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE) provides economic and health analysis of important environmental issues for the regulatory and policy process. NCEE also conducts research that will improve our current understanding of the impacts of environmental contaminants on public health. NCEE’s staff includes specialists in air, water, solid waste, cross-media economics, and children’s health risks. The center’s health scientists emphasize new methods for assessing previously unidentified risks, assessing relationships between exposures and disease, and developing tools to communicate this information to
