EPA Announces Winners of Apps for the Environment Challenge
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the winners of its Apps for the Environment challenge, which encouraged new and innovative uses of EPA鈥檚 data to create apps that address environmental and public health issues. Developers from across the country created apps with information about everything from energy efficient light bulbs to local air quality. A few even developed games to help people learn environmental facts.
鈥淚nnovators from across the country have used information to help people protect our health and the environment,鈥 said Malcolm Jackson, EPA鈥檚 Chief Information Officer. 鈥淭he winners of the Apps for the Environment challenge demonstrate that it鈥檚 possible to transform data from EPA and elsewhere into applications that people can use.鈥