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Editor's note: As part of our effort to highlight innovative approaches to improving the environment and the health of communities, the Journal is featuring a bimonthly column from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (U.S. EPA's) new Community Action for a Renewed Environment (CARE) program. Since the CARE program is designed to work with and support community-based efforts to understand and address local environmental health concerns, we think this column will be of interest to a broad range of environmental health projessionals. The CARE program will report here on the activities and lessons learned from CARE communities across the nation and describe the broad range of U.S. EPA resources and programs available to support local environmental health initiatives. The purpose of this column is to keep readers up to date on CARE's progress in building a partnership that spans federal, state, and local environmental and environmental health agencies to improve support for communities. We believe that the column is an indication of U.S. EPAs commitment to joining with environmental health projessionals to better meet the needs of communities, and we are pleased to make it available to our readers.
Ted Coopwood, the author of this month's installment, works in U.S. EPAs Office of Children's Health Protection and Environmental Education, where he is responsible for developing and implementing environmental health activities and programs to protect children and older adults from environmental exposures. In the past 19 years, he has worked with a number oj U.S. EPA programs, including the National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Conference, the Toxicity Testing Program in the Ojfice of Water, and has served as environmental justice coordinator in the Ojfice...