The role of the Environmental Protection Agency EPA is to protect the health of human beings and the environment too. EPA is empowered to make and enforce rules and regulations under the existing environmental laws. EPA is also responsible for researching various methods of environmental protection. The Agency is responsible for environmental licensing, environmental guidance, education and planning, management of waste, regulating greenhouse emissions and monitors, analyses and reports on the environment (Davies, 2014). One major regulation that EPA enforces in the industrial/manufacturing sector is the regulation to control emissions from mercury, wastes and other products to water or air (Williams, 2013).
References
Davies, J. C. (2014). Comparing environmental risks: tools for setting government priorities.
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Williams, P. T. (2013). Waste treatment and disposal. John Wiley & Sons.