EPA American's Children and the Environment

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America’s Children and the Environment is an EPA report that presents key information on environmental stressors that can affect children’s health. In January 2013, EPA released an updated third edition of this report (ACE3) that shows the status and trends of:

• Environments and Contaminants (contaminants in air, water, food, and soil and other environmental conditions),
• Biomonitoring (chemicals measured in the bodies of mothers and children), and
• Health (childhood diseases and health outcomes).

To read America's Children and the Environment, Third Edition, please view:

• America’s Children and the Environment, Third Edition (PDF) (412pp, 11.3MB)
• Appendices to the Report (data tables, metadata, alignment of ACE3 indicators with Healthy People 2020 objectives) (PDF) (98pp, 2MB)

A printable version with formatting enhancements will be available soon.
Download previous editions of the ACE report:

• U.S. EPA, 2003. America’s Children and the Environment: Measures of Contaminants, Body Burdens, and Illnesses (PDF) (181pp, 1.4MB)
• U.S. EPA, 2000. America’s Children and the Environment: A First View of Available Measures (PDF) (91pp, 1.1 MB)