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EPA Awards Santa Fe community college $300,000 for environmental job training program
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $300,000 to Santa Fe Community College to provide funding for its Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training Program. The funds will be used to recruit, train and place unemployed or underemployed residents throughout the Santa Fe, New Mexico, region in environmental careers. Those selected to participate in the program will be ...
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Submit your abstract on Environmental Forensics applied to Waste Management and contaminated sites
In the last years, the increasing attention to the environment themes with a specific attention to the pollution, to the legal responsibilities of it and to the effects on the human health has created the condition for the development of a new discipline: the “Environmental Forensics”. The environmental investigation is a very peculiar frontier among the forensic disciplines ...
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EPA awards Little Tokyo agency US$200,000 to clean up petroleum contamination
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today presented a $200,000 Brownfields grant to the Los Angeles, Calif.-based Little Tokyo Service Center Community Development Corporation to clean up an oil field drilling site in Historic Filipinotown. The center is partnering with the Pilipino Workers Center to cleanup and redevelop the site at 153 Glendale Boulevard. The partners plan to develop 48 ...
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EPA dishes $69.3 million towards contaminated sites cleanup & community revitalization
Contaminated sites stemming from abandoned industrial and commercial properties are a problem. Other than being an eyesore, they can significantly prohibit the growth and economic development of their surrounding communities. It is for this reason the EPA announced on May 24th that they will be dispersing $69.3 million in grants towards new investments that will provide funding for communities to ...
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Pathways-VA to receive $300,000 EPA brownfields training grant
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that Pathways-VA in eastern Virginia will receive a $300,000 Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training Grant to help train low-income residents for environmental jobs in Petersburg, Va. Pathways-VA, a non-profit organization, will use the funding to train 64 students for entry-level environmental jobs helping to clean up ...
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Civic works to receive $300,000 EPA brownfields training grant
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that Civic Works in Baltimore will receive a $300,000 Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training Grant to help train low-income residents for environmental jobs. Civic Works, a non-profit AmeriCorps program, will use the funding to train 144 students for entry-level environmental jobs helping to clean up abandoned and ...
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Wilmington’s West End Neighborhood House receives $192,000 EPA brownfields training grant
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that West End Neighborhood House in Wilmington will receive a $192,300 Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training Grant to help train low-income residents for environmental jobs. West End Neighborhood House is a non-profit organization that has been improving lives in an economically and culturally diverse community for more than ...
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EPA presents $200,000 brownfields grant to help clean up former TSandT Pottery site in Chester, W. Va.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today presented a $200,000 brownfields cleanup grant to the Business Development Corporation of the Northern Panhandle that will be used to help clean up hazardous substances at the site of a former pottery plant in Chester, W. Va. "This funding will help the Business Development Corporation of the Northern Panhandle spearhead cleanup activities at an ...
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EPA announces $16 million in brownfields funds to clean up communities (HQ)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced more than $16 million in supplemental funding for cleanup efforts at contaminated sites known as brownfields. Communities representing 27 state or local governments were chosen to receive the supplemental funding, which will help them carry out cleanup activities, redevelopment projects, and create jobs for people living near brownfields sites. ...
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Vermont receives US$800,000 from EPA to clean brownfields
Two Vermont organizations will share US$800,000 from EPA to help clean contaminated sites known as brownfields. This funding is part of more than US$16 million for brownfields allotted nationally and US$3 million allotted in New England by EPA. The recipients of the EPA funding are the Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development and the Southern Windsor County Regional Planning ...
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US$2.6m for brownfields environmental job training
Thirteen communities in 12 states will share US$2.6 million in job training grants geared toward cleaning up contaminated properties and turning them into productive community assets. EPA’s Brownfields Program is awarding grants of US$200,000 each to non-profit organizations, workforce investment boards, and state and local governments. The grants will teach environmental assessment and cleanup ...
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EPA awards $900,000 Brownfields revolving loan fund grant to Texarkana, Texas, to improve business opportunities
The city of Texarkana, Texas, will receive a $900,000 brownfields revolving loan fund grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The grant will be used to capitalize a revolving loan fund from which the city of Texarkana will provide loans and subgrants to support cleanup activities for sites contaminated with hazardous substances and petroleum. The revolving fund program will ...
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Gloucester to receive $400,000 in EPA funding for Brownfields
The City of Gloucester will receive $400,000 from EPA to help clean contaminated sites known as brownfields. This funding is part of more than $16 million for brownfields allotted nationally and $3 million allotted in New England by the EPA. “This funding to the City of Gloucester will be a boon to the local economy and will continue to assist in job creation in the area. With this ...
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USD 2.5m for brownfields environmental job training in 10 US states
Thirteen communities in 10 US states will share more than USD 2.5 million in job training grants geared toward cleaning up contaminated properties and turning them into productive community assets. The US Environmental Protection Agency, under its Brownfields Initiative, is awarding grants of up to USD 200,000 each to non-profit organizations, local governments, a university, and a tribe. The ...
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Nov. 28 is deadline to apply for 2012 EPA Brownfields funding
EPA is encouraging eligible entities to apply now through Nov. 28, 2011, for 2012 Brownfields funding. These grant funds can be used to address sites contaminated by petroleum and hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants, including hazardous substances comingled with petroleum. Available grants from EPA’s Brownfields Program include assessment grants (each funded up to $200,000 ...
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India takes steps to reduce persistent organic pollutants
India being a signatory to the Stockholm Convention would require to develop a National Implementation Plan to demonstrate how the obligations of the convention will be implemented. Inaugurating the Inception Workshop for the Development of National Implementation Plan in India as First Step to Implement the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Ms Meena Gupta, Secretary ...
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EPA provides $1 million to clean up and revitalize contaminated properties in Puerto Rico; Guayanilla, Penuelas and Ponce to receive funding
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is providing $1 million to Desarrollo Integral del Sur, Inc., an organization representing a coalition of Puerto Rico municipalities, for the assessment of abandoned and contaminated sites in Guanyilla, Penuelas and Ponce. The funding was awarded through EPA’s Brownfields Program, which helps communities assess, clean up, redevelop, and reuse ...
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EPA announces US$55m for contaminated land clean up and local job creation
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson announced this week that $55 million in supplemental funding is being awarded for cleanup efforts at contaminated sites known as brownfields. The funds provide revolving loans and subgrants to help communities carry out cleanup activities, redevelopment projects, and create jobs for people living near brownfields sites. Of the $55 ...
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Nov. 19 is Deadline to Apply for 2013 EPA Brownfields Funding
EPA is encouraging eligible entities to apply now through Nov. 19, 2012, for 2013 Brownfields funding. These grant funds can be used to address sites contaminated by petroleum and hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants, including hazardous substances co-mingled with petroleum. Available grants from EPA’s Brownfields Program include assessment grants (each funded up to $200,000 ...
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Somerville to receive US$400,000 in EPA funding for brownfields
The City of Somerville will receive US$400,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to help clean contaminated sites known as brownfields. This funding is part of more than US$16 million for brownfields allotted nationally and US$3 million allotted in New England by the EPA. “This funding for Somerville will help the local economy and will continue to assist in creating and ...
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