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EPA Work on One Health

graphic showing health promoting factors and stressors transferring between society and environment. Text reads "One Environment-One Health. EPA Science for Protecting People, Communities, and Ecosystems" — National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Transforming EPA Science to Meet Today’s and Tomorrow’s Challenges. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/26602.

EPA takes action to protect the environmental sector of One Health under several environmental laws. These laws require EPA to:

Regulate pollution to land, air, and water
Ensure compliance with, and enforcement of, the laws and regulations
Support regulation, compliance, enforcement, and response with science and technology

See how One Health principles incorporated into the environmental laws have helped EPA and states, Tribes, and local governments find cross-agency solutions to complex environmental problems, with benefits for humans, animals, plants, and ecosystems:

Air
Land
Water