• Addressing Climate Change in the Water Sector
  Learn about the steps EPA is taking to address the impacts of climate change in the water sector.
• EPA's Office Water Adaptation Implementation Plan
• EPA National Water Program Climate Adaptation Tools Handout
  This double-sided resource created by the Office of Water is for you to share with partners (e.g., conferences, meetings, outreach) or use as your own reference! The document summarizes 15 tools developed by the EPA National Water Program for state, tribal and local governments and others to adapt their clean water and drinking water programs to a changing climate. The document is organized around: Climate Ready Estuaries; Creating Resilient Water Utilities; Emergency/Incident Planning, Response, and Recovery; and Water Quality.

Climate impacts on Water Resources Website

• Stormwater Calculator Technical Fact Sheet (PDF) (1 pg, 396 K)
  A factsheet on how to use the Stormwater Calculator tool to include future climate vulnerability scenarios when estimating the annual amount of rainwater and frequency of runoff from a specific site.
• Green Infrastructure for Climate Resiliency Brochure
  Information on how green infrastructure practices can help communities prepare for and manage the effects of climate change. This brochure focuses on several topics, among them increasing water management efficiency, managing stormwater, preparing for drought, and protecting coastal areas.
• State Water Agency Practices for Climate Adaptation
  Descriptions of innovative practices that state water agencies are currently implementing to reduce their vulnerability to climate-related impacts and to build resilience to climate change. These select state practices can serve as useful models for other state agencies seeking to make water programs more resilient to climate change.

Creating Resilient Water Utilities Website

• Creating Resilient Water Utilities Adaptation Strategies Guide
  This guide will walk you through an understanding of climate information at your location, what challenges you may expect to see, and what adaptation options you can use to address each climate challenge.
• Climate Resilient Evaluation and Awareness Tool version 2.0 Fact Sheet
  The Climate Resilience Evaluation and Awareness Tool (CREAT), developed under EPA's Creating Resilient Water Utilities initiative, assists drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater utility owners and operators in assessing climate risks to utility assets and operations.

Climate Ready Estuaries website

• Climate Ready Estuaries: Synthesis of Adaptation Options for Coastal Areas
  This guide provides a brief introduction to key physical impacts of climate change on estuaries and a review of on-the-ground adaptation options available to coastal managers to reduce their systems' vulnerability to climate change impacts.
• Being Prepared for Climate Change: A Workbook for Developing Risk-Based Adaptation Plans
  This workbook presents a guide to climate change adaptation planning based on EPA's experience with watershed management, the National Estuary Program and the Climate Ready Estuaries program. The Workbook will assist organizations that manage environmental resources to prepare a broad, risk-based adaptation plan.
• Rolling Easements Primer
  This document provides a primer on more than a dozen land use and legal tools for ensuring that intertidal habitats (wetlands, mudflats, and beaches). Rolling easements help ensure that these habitats can persist even as sea level rises.
• Collaborative Guide: A Reef Manager's Guide to Coral Bleaching
  The Collaborative Guide: A Reef Manager's Guide to Coral Bleaching provides coral reef managers with the latest scientific information on the causes of coral bleaching and new management strategies for responding to this significant threat to coral reef ecosystems.

• Office of Land and Emergency Management (Formerly Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response) Climate Adaptation Plan

• Climate Change Adaptation Technical Fact Sheet: Landfills and Containment as an Element of Site Remediation (PDF)(8 pp, 853 K, About PDF)
  • This fact sheet addresses contaminated site remedies involving source containment systems.
  • It is intended to serve as an adaptation planning tool by: 
    • providing an overview of potential climate change vulnerabilities
    • presenting possible adaptation measures that may be considered to increase a remedy's resilience to climate change impacts
• Climate Change Adaptation Technical Fact Sheet: Contaminated Sediment Remedies (PDF)(8 pp, 869 K, About PDF)
  • This fact sheet addresses remedies for contaminated sediment.
  • It is intended to serve as an adaptation planning tool by: 
    • providing an overview of potential climate change vulnerabilities
    • presenting possible adaptation measures that may be considered to increase a remedy's resilience to climate change impacts
• Climate Change Adaptation Technical Fact Sheet: Groundwater Remediation Systems (PDF)(8 pp, 1 MB, About PDF)
  • This fact sheet addresses remedies involving groundwater remediation systems.
  • It is intended to serve as an adaptation planning tool by: 
    • providing an overview of potential climate change vulnerabilities
    • presenting possible adaptation measures that may be considered to increase a remedy's resilience to climate change impacts
• Superfund Climate Change Adaptation – EPA's Superfund program has developed an approach that raises awareness of climate change vulnerabilities to contaminated sites and applies climate change science as a standard operating practice in cleanup projects.
• Climate Adaptation and Brownfields Factsheet/Checklist – EPA has created a checklist to help cleanup and revolving loan fund recipients address changing climate concerns in an analysis of brownfield cleanup alternatives (ABA).
• Climate Smart Brownfields – EPA continues to help communities develop sustainable strategies to address climate change and become more climate resilient through brownfield revitalization.

• Waste Management Planning to Mitigate the Impact of Climate Change – Climate change is expected to produce more frequent and powerful natural disasters, which will increase the amount of disaster-related waste generated. Communities can adapt to these disasters and increase their resiliency by preparing for these disasters through pre-incident planning.

• U.S. Global Change Research Program – Climate and Health Assessment
• Air
  • ​EPA's Office of Air and Radiation Adaptation Plan
• ​Water
  • EPA's Office Water Adaptation Plan
• Chemical Exposure & Waste Management
  • EPA's Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention Adaptation Plan
  • EPA's Office of Land and Emergency Management Adaptation Plan
    • (formerly EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response)

• Adapting Buildings for Indoor Air Quality in a Changing Climate

• Addressing Climate Change in the Water Sector
• State Water Agency Practices for Climate Adaptation
• National Water Program Climate Adaptation Tools Summary
• Drinking Water Requirements for States and Public Water Systems
• Creating Resilient Water Utilities
• Enhancing Sustainable Communities with Green Infrastructure: A Guide to Help Communities Better Manage Stormwater While Achieving Other Environmental, Public Health, Social, and Economic Benefits

• Superfund Climate Change Adaptation
• Superfund Climate Change Adaptation: Information Sources

• The National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) – U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit –

  This interagency website is a 'one stop shop' for information on extreme heat. The site integrates heat-health information, case studies, and tools from across the Federal Government to support on-the-ground efforts to reduce heat-related impacts on human health.

• Climate and Health Assessment – Temperature-Related Death and Illness –

  Learn how climate change is a significant threat to the health of the American people. This scientific assessment examines how climate change is already affecting human health and the changes that may occur in the future.

• EPA's Heat Island Effect –

  Learn about how climate change and heat islands interact, how EPA is helping communities reduce heat islands, and the strategies to reduce the heat island effect: trees and vegetation, green roofs, cools roofs, cool pavements, and smart growth.

• Climate Change and Extreme Heat: What You Can Do to Prepare –

  This booklet answers some of the key questions about extreme heat in a changing climate (e.g., Why extreme heat is on the rise? How might extreme heat affect you? What you can do before and during an extreme heat event to reduce your health risk?).

• U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit – Steps to Resilience
• National Climate Assessment – Adaptation Process

• U.S. Global Change Research Program – Federal Adaptation Resources
• U.S. General Services Administration – Sustainable Facilities Tool – Information on efficient building operations, green buildings, and sustainable purchasing

• U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit – Topics