The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced approximately $12 million to fund environmental job training grants.
The Fiscal Year 2023 Brownfields Job Training Program will award grants of up to $500,000 per grant to approximately 25 environmental cleanup organizations across the nation. a recent EPA news release said.
“EPA’s Brownfields Job Training Program boosts the environmental workforce while helping to transform communities that need it the most,” Carlton Waterhouse, EPA deputy assistant administrator for the Office of Land and Emergency Management, said in the release. “This grant cycle, we were able to increase the amount of funding available so that organizations can apply for more resources as they work to create a skilled workforce in communities where assessment, cleanup, and preparation of brownfield sites for reuse activities are taking place.”
Funding for this initiative is provided by a $1.5 billion investment from President Joe Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The investment seeks to create jobs in the brownfields revitalization sector while also transforming traditionally disadvantaged communities.
Applications for grants can be submitted though grants.gov. The deadline for applications is Aug. 2, 2022.
