Funding & Career Opportunities

Small Business Innovation Research

Are you an entrepreneur with an idea for environmental technology? EPA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program may be an opportunity to help advance your innovation. Learn About SBIR.

Research Grants

EPA awards research grants through a variety of mechanisms, including Science to Achieve Results (STAR), National Priorities, People Prosperity and the Planet (P3), and more. Learn more about these grant programs, see upcoming funding opportunities, and read about recent grant awardees. 

Science Careers at EPA

Want to help protect your environment? Improve the health of all Americans?  From geology to mechanical engineering, from biology to chemistry, EPA is looking for scientists, technologists and engineers to perform cutting-edge research in a dynamic learning environment -- research that can help make this a cleaner, more sustainable planet.

Federal Technology Transfer Act

Under the Federal Technology Transfer Act (FTTA), EPA can collaborate with external parties on research projects, and share research materials. These collaborations can lead to improved research outcomes, and often, the creation of new intellectual property. Intellectual property refers to ideas of the mind, such as inventions. This intellectual property can be protected under a patent. 

Under FTTA, EPA can also protect confidential business information that is provided to us by research partners.