Environmental Compliance
Purpose
The goal of Environmental Compliance is to:
- Monitor and analyze changes in United States (U.S.) federal and state environmental, health and safety (EH&S) laws and regulations
- Understand and minimize the impacts associated with the ban, restriction, or regulation of certain chemicals and materials needed for NASA to carry out its mission.
- Identify and validate environment and energy technologies needed to reduce the impacts of EH&S laws and regulations through collaboration within NASA, with other Federal agencies, and through international partnerships.
- Improve and enhance risk management practices, communication activities, and knowledge sharing to enable success of current and future NASA programs.
How Environmental Compliance Supports NASA’s Mission
Environmental Compliance contributes directly to the NASA mission by improving mission performance. This improvement is accomplished through analysis of the changing environmental regulatory environment and providing alternative materials and processes to ensure compliance. The Environmental Management Division will continue its role to mitigate agency-wide environmentally-driven programs
Environmental Compliance Regulatory Drivers
The regulatory drivers can emerge from state and federal regulations, international agreements, or foreign regulations. Since NASA operates in a global environment, required materials and their formulations can be affected by changes anywhere on the planet.
Environmental Compliance Point of Contact