green infrastructure News
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EPA Kicks Off Third-Annual Campus RainWorks Challenge to Develop Innovative Approaches to Stormwater Management
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is launching its third-annual Campus RainWorks Challenge, a prize contest that engages college students in developing innovative green infrastructure systems to reduce stormwater pollution and build resilience to climate change. Through Campus RainWorks, teams of undergraduate and graduate students, working with a faculty advisor, develop a proposed green ...
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EPA Awards $65,000 to Pima County to Reduce Water Pollution, Build Resilience to Climate Change
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced $65,000 in funds to help Pima County expand its use of green infrastructure to reduce water pollution and boost resilience to the impacts of climate change. The funding will help the county complete a green infrastructure guidance manual. The southern Arizona project is one of six announced today in support of President Obama’s ...
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Tell EPA About Your Green Infrastructure Project
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced a poster contest to highlight green infrastructure and low-impact development projects in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas. Did your business build a parking garage with a green roof? Do your city government buildings harvest rainwater? EPA wants to hear about projects like these in preparation for the EPA Region 6 ...
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EPA Awards $75,000 to Providence, R.I. to Reduce Water Pollution, Build Resilience to Climate Change
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced funding of approximately $75,000 to help Providence, R.I. expand its use of green infrastructure to reduce water pollution and boost resilience to the impacts of climate change. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy announced the new funding in an event with Senator Jack Reed this afternoon the Riverwalk in Providence, RI. The assistance ...
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The Benefits of Green Infrastructure
Dear colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, I am very pleased to be here today to discuss the benefits of Green Infrastructure for Europe's regions and cities, the role that different actors can play at all levels to deploy nature-based solutions across the EU, and how we can work together to make it happen. However, let me first thank the Committee of the Regions and the Economic and Social ...
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EPA Kicks Off Campus RainWorks Challenge to Develop Innovative Approaches to Stormwater Management
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is launching its fourth annual Campus RainWorks Challenge for undergraduate and graduate students to design green infrastructure systems to reduce stormwater pollution and increase resiliency to climate change. Student teams, working with a faculty advisor, will propose green infrastructure projects for their campuses, demonstrating how managing ...
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EPA Awards $860,000 to Communities to Reduce Water Pollution, Build Resilience to Climate Change
This week the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the Albuquerque flood control authority is one of 14 recipients nationwide of part of $860,000 to expand the use of green infrastructure to reduce water pollution and boost resilience to the impacts of climate change. The funding is in support of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, which directs federal agencies to ...
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Scranton Gets EPA Support for Green Infrastructure in Iron Arts District
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that the City of Scranton is one of 14 communities nationwide to receive EPA support to expand the use of green infrastructure to reduce water pollution and boost resilience to the impacts of climate change. The Scranton Sewer Authority will receive technical support of $25,000 to help incorporate green infrastructure into a comprehensive ...
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EPA Awards $400,000 to Communities to Reduce Water Pollution, Build Resilience to Climate Change
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced $400,000 to help six communities expand their use of green infrastructure to reduce water pollution and boost resilience to the impacts of climate change. The funding is in support of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, which directs federal agencies to identify climate-resilient investments such as agency grants and ...
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EPA Awards Spartanburg, S.C., Green Infrastructure Assistance to Reduce Water Pollution, Build Resiliency to Climate Change
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced $400,000 to help six communities across the country, including Spartanburg, S.C., expand their use of green infrastructure. The funding is in support of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, which directs federal agencies to identify climate-resilient investments such as agency grants and technical assistance for communities ...
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Investing in green infrastructure will bring multiple returns to nature, society and people
The European Commission adopted today a new strategy for encouraging the use of green infrastructure, and for ensuring that the enhancement of natural processes becomes a systematic part of spatial planning. Green Infrastructure is a tried and tested tool that uses nature to provide ecological, economic and social benefits. Instead of building flood protection infrastructure, for example, a green ...
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In the Wake of Sandy, Conference Offers Green Solutions for New Jersey Communities; EPA and Rutgers University Co-Host Green Infrastructure Conference at Duke Farms - Public Encouraged to Attend
A conference to be held on July 31 in Hillborough, New Jersey will highlight the critical importance of using green infrastructure to manage storm water and enhance treatment of sewage and better withstand storms like Sandy. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Rutgers University Cooperative Extension are co-sponsoring the New Jersey Green Infrastructure Forum July 31 at Duke Farms in ...
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EPA Awards $860,000 to Communities to Reduce Water Pollution, Build Resilience to Climate Change
This week the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the Pueblo de Cochiti is one of 14 communities nationwide receiving part of $860,000 to expand the use of green infrastructure to reduce water pollution and boost resilience to the impacts of climate change. The funding is in support of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, which directs federal agencies to identify ...
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EPA Helping Five State Capitals Develop Green Infrastructure, Improve Climate Resiliency
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that it will provide technical assistance to help five capital cities develop green infrastructure that will contribute to greener, more vibrant neighborhoods and increase resiliency from the impacts of our changing climate. EPA selected the following cities for this year’s Greening America’s Capitals program through a ...
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Racine Receives EPA Great Lakes Shoreline Cities Green Infrastructure Grant
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced the award of a $250,000 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant to the city of Racine to fund green infrastructure projects to improve water quality in Lake Michigan. EPA Region 5 Administrator / Great Lakes National Program Manager Susan Hedman was joined at Memorial Hall by Racine Mayor John Dickert and Vicki Elkin, Executive Director of ...
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EPA Awards $860,000 to Communities to Reduce Water Pollution, Build Resilience to Climate Change
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced $860,000 to help 14 communities expand their use of green infrastructure to reduce water pollution and boost resilience to the impacts of climate change. The funding supports President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, which directs federal agencies to support community-based preparedness and resilience efforts across the country. ...
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EPA Awards Green Infrastructure Grant of $20,000 to Kansas State University for Projects on Campus in Manhattan, Kan.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded a $20,000 grant to Kansas State University to carry out a green infrastructure demonstration and training project on its campus in Manhattan, Kan. Faculty and students will create “living laboratories” to conduct green infrastructure monitoring at two on-campus sites – the rain garden at the International Student Center ...
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EPA Awards the City of Santa Monica $60,000 to Reduce Water Pollution, Build Resilience to Climate Change
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced approximately $60,000 to help the City of Santa Monica design a stormwater diversion system that will be used to reduce runoff, protect water quality, and replace potable water used to irrigate parkland. “By investing in green infrastructure, Santa Monica is taking another step towards its goal of eliminating the use of ...
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Milwaukee Receives EPA Great Lakes Shoreline Cities Green Infrastructure Grant
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced the award of a $1 million Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant to the city of Milwaukee to fund green infrastructure projects to improve water quality in Lake Michigan. EPA Region 5 Administrator / Great Lakes National Program Manager Susan Hedman was joined at the Global Water Center by Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett to announce the ...
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EPA Awards Green Infrastructure Grant of $20,000 to Mississippi State University
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded a $20,000 grant to Mississippi State University to carry out a green infrastructure demonstration and training project. The university will create a 1,500-square-foot rain garden on its campus. According to the project narrative, students will be involved “at every aspect of the design, construction, maintenance and monitoring of the ...
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