Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Strategic Plan - Fiscal Years 2022-2026.

This Strategic Plan establishes the Environmental Protection Agency’s priorities and provides a roadmap for achieving its mission to protect human health and the environment. The Strategic Plan is based on the Agency’s guiding principles, and aims at tackling climate change and advancing environmental justice, and therefore it establishes seven strategic goals, to highlight the importance of climate change and environmental issues: 1) tackling climate crisis; 2) taking decisive actions to advance environmental justice and civil rights; 3) enforcement of environmental laws; 4) ensuring clean and healthy air for all communities; 5) ensuring clean and safe water for all communities; 6) community management and revitalisation; 7) ensuring safety of chemicals and pesticides for people and the environment. Furthermore, the Strategic Plan describes four cross-agency strategies, in accordance with the Agency’s mission: reinforcing science and ensuring science-based decision making process; protecting children’s and other vulnerable populations’ environmental health; enhancing mission-support functions to achieve organisational excellence; strengthening local communities engagement.
In order to implement its goals the Strategic Plan describes the following objectives: reducing emissions of greenhouse gases from all sectors that cause climate change and increasing the use of renewable energy sources; accelerating resilience and adaptation to climate change impacts; strengthening civil rights enforcement in communities with environmental justice concerns; reducing exposure to radiation and localised pollution and health impacts; protection of public health from the risk of exposure to regulated and emerging contaminants in drinking and source waters, through the ensuring of safe water and reliable water infrastructure; addressing sources of water pollution, and ensuring water quality standards for the needs of the population and the ecosystem; improving land restoration measures to encourage safe and productive uses, above all in underserved and overburdened areas; preventing environmental pollution by reducing waste, increasing recovery and recycling options, and ensuring sustainable waste management practices; strengthening local communities preparedness to incidents and environmental emergencies.