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President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law creates new EPA program to protect children’s health, reduce pollution, and boost American manufacturing
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Mercer Island, WA Student Earns National EPA Recognition for Agriculture Project

Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that two high school students -- Josephine “Josie” Barber, a junior at Mercer Island High School, Mercer Island, Washington and Mason Sufnarski, a senior at Marvin Ridge High School in Waxhaw
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Biden Administration and EPA Announce $113M to fund Great Lakes Restoration Projects near Duluth, Minnesota

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law accelerating long-awaited work in St. Louis River Area of Concern on Lake Superior
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EPA Announces $500 Million for Clean School Buses, urges Pacific Northwest and Alaska districts to apply

President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Creates New EPA Program to Protect Children’s Health, Reduce Pollution, and Boost American Manufacturing
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EPA Regional Administrator Debra Shore Urges Eligible School Districts in Ohio to Apply for $500 Million In Available Funding for Clean School Buses

President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Creates New EPA Program to Protect Children’s Health, Reduce Pollution, and Boost American Manufacturing
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EPA Adds Five PFAS Chemicals to List of Regional Screening and Removal Management Levels to Protect Human Health and the Environment

Today, EPA is taking an important step forward to protect people from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) by adding five PFAS chemicals for a total of six PFAS chemicals to a list of risk-based values that help EPA determine if response or remediation activities are needed.
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Bohan: 'Today's settlement will protect the Pueblo community and surrounding environment'

A recently announced first-of-its-kind settlement between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and a Colorado company will provide protections for the local community against coal ash and its contaminants.
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EPA Announces Record $3.15 Million Brownfields Investment in Rhode Island

President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will help revitalize New England communities, Build a Better America and Address Environmental Justice Concerns
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EPA Announces Additional $1.9 Billion in State Revolving Loan Funds for Water Infrastructure Upgrades

$1.9 Billion in annual appropriations adds to $7.7 billion in SRF funding through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in 2022
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EPA Announces Record $24.2 Million Brownfields Investment in Maine

President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will help revitalize New England communities, Build a Better America and Address Environmental Justice Concerns
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EPA Announces $8.3 Million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds to Revitalize Communities in Oregon

Funds part of a $254 Million Nationwide effort to tackle polluted Brownfield sites
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EPA Announces $284 Million WIFIA Loan to Modernize Water Infrastructure in DeKalb County, Georgia

Nationally, 83 WIFIA loans are financing nearly $32 billion in water infrastructure upgrades, creating 95,000 jobs
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EPA Regional Administrator Debra Shore Urges Eligible School Districts in Indiana to Apply for $500 Million In Available Funding for Clean School Buses

President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Creates New EPA Program to Protect Children’s Health, Reduce Pollution, and Boost American Manufacturing
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EPA Proposes that Indiana’s Clark and Floyd Counties Now Meet Federal Air Quality Standard for Ozone, Opens 30-day Comment Period

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today started a 30-day public comment period on its proposal to redesignate the Indiana portion of the Louisville area to attainment of the 2015 National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ground-level ozone
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EPA offers new grant application process starting June 1

FY23 BROWNFIELDS JOB TRAINING (JT) GRANTS grant opened on June 1.
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What did Environmental Protection Agency publish on May 31?

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a two page notice on May 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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EPA grant application closes on July 18

Pesticide Inspector Residential Training (PIRT) grant opened on June 1.
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Environmental Protection Agency discusses Air Plan Approval; Rhode Island; Infrastructure State Implementation Plan Requirements for the 2012 PM2.5 on May 31

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a five page rule on May 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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Air Plan Approval; Pennsylvania; 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard Nonattainment New Source Review Certification discussed on May 31 by Environmental Protection Agency

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a three page proposed rule on May 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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Notice published on May 31 by Environmental Protection Agency

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a one page notice on May 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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