EPA staff can't give interviews to students or respond to student enquiries. Instead we have a list of resources to help with environmental assignments:
- Compliance and enforcement – how EPA monitors industry and makes sure it complies with the law.
- Licences and approvals – a lot of industrial work needs EPA approvals and licences before it can start.
- Current issues – updates on environmental issues affecting us all.
- Environmental auditing – Victoria’s system to assess environmental harm industry might cause.
- Monitoring the environment – what EPA – and other agencies – monitor and how we do it.
- Programs and initiatives – current and past EPA programs, and those we have supported.
- Setting and reviewing standards – EPA regularly reviews environmental policy and regulations.
- Publications
- Priority Sites Register – a list of sites where EPA requires owners or occupiers to clean up, monitor or prevent pollution.
- News and updates – latest announcements.
Media releases from the Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change are another helpful resource.
Information on who we are and what we do
EPA is Victoria's environmental regulator. Our main roles are to:
- prevent and reduce harm to human health and the environment from pollution and waste
- enforce the state's environmental protection laws
- assess environmental risks
- set and enforce environmental Regulations and standards
- publish guidance for business and industry to help them comply with the law.
EPA is part of the Victorian Government's environment portfolio. We work with the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) to make environment protection policies and laws. We also work with Sustainability Victoria (SV) on programs to make waste and resource management more efficient.
We're changing
Victoria's environment protection laws are changing. The new laws will introduce the general environment duty – your responsibility to prevent harm from pollution and waste.
EPA and the CSIRO STEM Professionals in Schools Program
The CSIRO STEM Professionals in Schools Program is a national volunteer program. STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and maths. Through partnerships between schools and industry, this program brings STEM into the classroom. This includes boosting student engagement in STEM through school.
EPA supports Victorians to understand the condition of their environment. We have been working with schools and teachers to build environmental and science literacy through this program since 2018.
Find out more or get involved in the CSIRO STEM Professionals in Schools Program.
Read more EPA news and updates
Reviewed 2 December 2020
