Regulates air emissions and enforces pollution standards.

Cleans up hazardous waste sites and responds to environmental emergencies.

Finances water quality projects, including wastewater treatment.

Offers loan guarantees to help small businesses secure financing.

Provides long-term, fixed-rate financing for major assets like real estate or equipment.

Funds technological innovation in small businesses through competitive awards.

Investigates securities law violations, including insider trading and fraud.

Conducts examinations of regulated entities like broker-dealers and investment advisers.

Electronic platform for companies to file public financial disclosures.

Funds studies comparing health interventions and outcomes from the patient perspective.

Ensures that research findings reach healthcare providers and patients.

Supports a national patient-centered clinical research network.

Develops guidelines for the built environment, transportation, communication, and more.

Provides resources and information on accessibility requirements.

Conducts studies and research to improve accessibility in all areas of life.

Provides temporary financial assistance to workers unemployed through no fault of their own.

Ensures safe and healthy working conditions by setting and enforcing standards.

Offers free education and vocational training to young people aged 16–24.

Examines industrial chemical accidents to determine causes and prevent recurrences.

Issues findings and best practices to enhance industrial chemical safety.

Creates educational videos illustrating how accidents happen and how to prevent them.

Protects pension benefits in single-employer defined benefit plans.

Insures pensions for multiemployer plans negotiated by unions and employers.

Provides relief to severely underfunded multiemployer pension plans.

Facilitates negotiations between rail and air carriers and their unions.

Provides binding arbitration for unresolved railway or airline labor disputes.

Appointed by the President to investigate and recommend solutions for major disputes.

Conducts hearings and issues decisions on mine safety violations and penalties.

Evaluates monetary penalties for noncompliance with safety and health standards.

Reviews contested decisions for consistency with mine safety and health laws.