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EPA grant application closes on Nov. 22

FY23 Guidelines for Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund Grants grant opened on Sept. 12.


EPA offers new grant application process starting Sept. 12

FY 23 Guidelines for Brownfield Assessment Grants (Community-Wide Assessment Grants for States and Tribes) grant opened on Sept. 12.


News Release: PHILADELPHIA (Sept. 9, 2022) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it is adding the Georgetown North Groundwater site in Sussex County, Delaware, to the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL). The NPL is the list of hazardous waste sites in the United States eligible for cleanup, financed under the federal Superfund program.



EPA offers new grant application process starting Sept. 12

FY23 Guidelines for Brownfield Assessment Grants (Community-Wide Assessment Grants) grant opened on Sept. 12.


Public notices: Environmental Protection Agency publishes 12 in week ending Sept. 10

There were 12 notices published by the Environmental Protection Agency in week ending Sept. 10, according to the Federal Register.


“Senate Committee Meetings“ was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D939-D940 on Sept. 7


The Daily Digest section of the Congressional Record published “CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD” on Sept. 6.


News Release: SAN FRANCISCO – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $2 million in research funding to the University of California, Berkeley to develop a cost-benefit tool to support enhanced aquifer recharge (EAR) as a viable, safe, and cost-effective water management strategy. EAR is the practice of using excess surface water to intentionally replenish and supplement existing groundwater supplies for storage and potential reuse.


News Release: DALLAS, TEXAS (De septiembre de 8th 2022) – La Agencia de Protección Ambiental de Estados Unidos (EPA, por sus siglas en inglés) está comprometida a reducir los riesgos para la salud de la contaminación tóxica del aire y está trabajando para actualizar y fortalecer las normas de la Ley de Aire Limpio ...


EPA Awards Nearly $2 Million to UC Berkeley for Research to Advance Water Management and Security

News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced nearly $2 million in research funding to the University of California, Berkeley to develop a cost-benefit tool to support enhanced aquifer recharge (EAR) as a viable, safe, and cost-effective water management strategy. EAR is the practice of using excess surface water to intentionally replenish and supplement existing groundwater supplies for storage and potential reuse.


News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) applauded the Biden Administration’s final rule restoring longstanding policy on the treatment of noncitizens seeking government assistance. Soon, legal immigrants will...


News Release: DALLAS, Texas (September 8, 2022) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is committed to reducing health risks toxic air pollution and is working to update and strengthen Clean Air Act standards for commercial sterilizers to achieve that goal. As part of that process, EPA is reaching out to ...


News Release: CHAPEL HILL, NC (September 8, 2022) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the selection of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill as a pollution prevention (P2) grant recipient made possible by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s historic $100 million program ...


EPA Adds the Ochoa Fertilizer Co. Site in Guánica, Puerto Rico to the Superfund National Priorities List

News Release: NEW YORK – In a move that will allow it to protect the nearby community, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced that it will add the Ochoa Fertilizer Co. site in Guánica, Puerto Rico to its Superfund National Priorities List (NPL), along with four other sites across the U.S. EPA will also propose two sites to the NPL, where releases of contamination pose significant human health and environmental risk.


EPA Selects Georgia Institute of Technology as a Recipient of a Pollution Prevention Grant Funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

News Release: ATLANTA (September 8, 2022) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the selection of Georgia Institute of Technology as a pollution prevention (P2) grant recipient made possible by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s historic $100 million program investment. These ...


News Release: GREENVILLE, NC (September 8, 2022) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the selection of East Carolina University as a pollution prevention (P2) grant recipient made possible by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s historic $100 million program investment. These ...


EPA Selects the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet, Department for Environmental Protection as a Recipient of a Pollution Prevention Grant Funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

News Release: ATLANTA (September 8, 2022) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the selection of the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet, Department for Environmental Protection as a pollution prevention (P2) grant recipient made possible by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure ...


News Release: (CHICAGO – September 8, 2022) Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a $135,212 pollution prevention, or P2, grant to Central Michigan University. This is one of the 39 national grants made possible by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s historic $100 million program investment. ...


EPA Highlights Successes in Camden, N.J. Communities in Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Clean Water Act

News Release: WASHINGTON — Today U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Deputy Assistant Administrator for Water Bruno Pigott joined U.S Representative Donald Norcross, Camden Mayor Victor Carstarphen, EPA Region 2 Senior Advisor for Equity and Chief of Staff Olivia Glenn, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Shawn La