Through its Environmental Management System (EMS), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is committed to:
Environmental Policy
- Complying with applicable environmental, public health, and resource conservation laws and regulations.
- Preventing pollution, minimizing waste, and conserving natural resources.
- Correcting environmental hazards and cleaning up existing environmental problems.
- Continually improving the Laboratory’s environmental performance while maintaining operational capability and sustaining the overall mission of the Laboratory.
Read the complete Environmental Management System Policy.
ISO 14001 Conformance
DOE Order 436.1, Departmental Sustainability (DOE, 2011a), requires DOE sites such as Berkeley Lab to develop and maintain an EMS that conforms to the ISO 14001 standard, Environmental Management Systems – Requirements with Guidance for Use (ISO, 2015). Click on the left for Berkeley Lab’s most recent Department of Energy (DOE) declaration of conformance of Berkeley Lab’s EMS to the ISO 14001 standard.
Each year Berkeley Lab prepares a Site Environmental Report that describes its environmental programs and performance for the most recent calendar year. This report provides an overview of Berkeley Lab, its EMS, and environmental compliance programs, including a discussion of surveillance and monitoring activities, radiological dose assessment results, and quality assurance measures.
The document meets the reporting requirements of U.S. Department of Energy Order 231.1B, Environment, Safety, and Health Reporting. Click on the left for the most recent Site Environmental Report. Past reports, as well as other environmental documents, can be found on Berkeley Lab’s Environmental Publications page.
