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Special Announcements
- EPA Awards $2 Million to Small Businesses to Support Environmental Innovation, Protect Health
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded seven contracts totaling more than $2 million to small businesses across the nation to develop new technologies to keep the environment clean and healthy. [Read More] - EPA Funds 25 Small Businesses to Develop Environmental Technologies
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is awarding nearly $2.25 million to 25 small companies to support the development of new technologies for protecting the environment and public health. [View Recipients] [Read More]
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is one of 11 federal agencies that participate in the SBIR Program established by the Small Business Innovation Development Act of 1982. EPA issues annual solicitations for Phase I and Phase II research proposals from science and technology-based firms. Phase II contracts are limited to small businesses that have successfully completed their Phase I contracts. [Read More]
Since its inception, EPA's SBIR Program has provided incentive funding to small businesses to translate their innovative ideas into commercial products that address environmental problems. View some of our most recent successes:
- Albemarle Mercury Control Division - Gas-Phase Bromination for Cost-Effective Mercury Control (PDF) (2 pp, 125 K)
- Bridger Photonics - Hand-Held Sensor for Carbon Dioxide (PDF) (2 pp, 110 K)
- Ceramatec, Inc. and EmiSense Technologies, LLC. - NOx Monitoring From Mobile Sources (PDF) (2 pp, 670 K)
- Compact Membrane Systems, Inc. - Reducing NOx Emissions From Diesel Engines (PDF) (2 pp, 161 K)
- Creare, Inc. - Low-Cost Machining Without Cutting Fluids (PDF) (2 pp, 123 K)
- Ecovative Design, LLC - Renewable and Biodegradable Insulation and Packaging Materials (PDF) (2 pp, 140 K)
- Gevo, Inc. - Second-Generation Biofuel: Isobutanol Producing Biocatalyst (PDF) (2 pp, 140 K)
- Jet Process Corporation - Advanced Thin Film Coating for Electroplating Metals (PDF) (2 pp, 142 K)
- NanoMech, Inc. - Biomimetic Nanostructured Coating for Environmentally Preferable Dry Machining (PDF) (2 pp, 262 K)
- National Recovery Technologies, Inc. - High-Speed Plastic Recycling (PDF) (2 pp, 141 K)
- Polymer Recycling, LLC and Enviro Roof Repair, Inc - Greener Roofs: Innovative Roof Repair Products From Recycled Materials (PDF) (2 pp, 130 K)
- Precision Combustion, Inc. - Fast Lightoff Catalytic Converter for Reduced Combustion Emissions (PDF) (2 pp, 170 K)
- Rheonix, Inc. - Rapid Detection of Waterborne Pathogens in Drinking Water (PDF) (2 pp, 189 K)
- WWETCO, LLC - Nonmechanical Device for Stormwater Flow Control (PDF) (2 pp, 138 K)
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