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Businesses Receive $246,000 to Invest in Workers’ Skills
Thirty-one of the state’s employers received grants this month totaling $246,807 to train 612 workers. The federally funded NCWorks Incumbent Worker Training Grants are reimbursements awarded twice a year to employers who qualify for financial assis...
Himes, Finch applaud EPA grants to clean up hazardous sites in Bridgeport area
The EPA’s Brownfields program works with states and localities by providing funds to help clean up properties that may be contaminated by hazardous substances or pollutants. In this round of funding, the EPA is distributing $600,000 to areas in the 4...
EPA provides $500K to the City of Fort Collins to advance the cleanup and...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded the City of Fort Collins $500K in Brownfields grant funding to expand local efforts to assess, clean up and redevelop properties along the Poudre River and the northern edge of the city’s dow...
New Home Purchase Made Possible by HELP Grant That Covers Down Payment
Lora and Michael Gallion were lifelong renters and living on a fixed income. The only houses the couple could afford were run-down spaces that were almost uninhabitable.
THOMPSON, GARAMENDI ANNOUNCE $467,000 BROWNFIELDS EPA GRANT TO SOLANO COUNTY WATER AGENCY
U.S. Reps. Mike Thompson (CA-5) and John Garamendi (CA-3) today announced that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded the Solano County Water Agency, in collaboration with the Westside Sacramento Integrated Water Management Group, a...
Minnesota Receives $38 Million in Federal Grants for Veterans Homes
Governor Mark Dayton today announced that the Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs (MDVA) will receive a federal grant totaling $38 million for the construction of a skilled care nursing facility, and infrastructure tying the existing and future co...
City of Bogalusa receives $400,000 EPA Brownfields Redevelopment Grant
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced the City of Bogalusa as a recipient of $400,000 to assess, clean and redevelop contaminated properties in the local community. EPA recently awarded $54.3 million in investments grants to...
Kansas City, Mo., and St. Louis to Receive EPA Brownfields Grants to Help toward...
EPA has selected the communities of Kansas City, Mo., and St. Louis to receive a total of $900,000 in grants from the Agency’s Brownfields Program to assist with the environmental assessments of contaminated brownfields properties, a key step in pavi...
Congressmen Garamendi, Thompson Announce $467,000 Brownsfields EPA Grant to Solano County Water Agency
Congressmen John Garamendi (CA-3) and Mike Thompson (CA-5) announced that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded the Solano County Water Agency, in collaboration with the Westside-Sacramento Integrated Water Management Group, a $467...
Leahy, Sanders, Welch: 6 Vermont Communities Net Brownfields Grants Totaling $2 M.
Representative Peter Welch (D-Vt.) Thursday announced that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has selected six Vermont communities to receive a total of $2 million for grants under the Brownfield Grant Program that will help them assess an...
Federal Funding For Plattsburgh Will Be Used To Purchase New Equipment
U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand today announced $57,943 in federal funding for the Plattsburgh Fire Department to purchase new equipment. The money was allocated through the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Assista...
Congressman Fattah Announces EPA Brownfield Grants to Three Philadelphia-Area Organizations
Each grant allocation is part of EPA’s Brownfields Program that provides communities the necessary funding to asses, clean, and redevelop contaminated properties in order to boost the local economy and protect public health and the environment. The g...
EPA Awards $1 Million in Brownfields Grants to Cleanup and Revitalize Communities in Kentucky
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that it plans to award four recipients in Kentucky with brownfields grants for new investments to provide communities with funding necessary to clean and redevelop contaminated properties, ...
Rep. Israel Announces $1.1 Million FEMA Grant for Superstorm Sandy Repairs in Oyster Bay
Congressman Steve Israel (D-Huntington) announced a more than $1.1 million infrastructure investment for the Town of Oyster Bay to repair damage caused by Superstorm Sandy. This disaster assistance, made available through the Department of Homeland Sec...
Sen. Brown Announces $900,000 to Redevelop Cuyahoga County Brownfield Sites
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced $900,000 in new federal funds to support brownfield site assessment and cleanup in Cuyahoga County.
Wells Fargo awards grants in Salt Lake City to help homeless
The Road Home ($300,000) and The Community Foundation of Utah ($200,000) are receiving the grants to help prevent homelessness in Salt Lake City. The grant recipients were selected in close collaboration with Mayor Ralph Becker and the city’s divisio...
DEQ awards 10 water quality grants
The DEQ today announced grants totaling almost $3.1 million to improve water quality in Michigan lakes and streams. These grants will help restore impaired waters and protect high-quality waters by reducing nonpoint sources of sediment, nutrients and o...
Cardin, Mikulski, Delaney Announce Federal Grant For Water Infrastructure Project In Allegany County
U.S. Senators Ben Cardin, a senior members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and Barbara A. Mikulski, together with Congressman John Delaney (all D-Md.), today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development (USD...
MIKULSKI, CARDIN, DELANEY ANNOUNCE FEDERAL GRANT FOR WATER INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT IN ALLEGANY COUNTY
U.S. Senators Barbara A. Mikulski and Ben Cardin, together with Congressman John Delaney (all D-Md.), today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development (USDARD) has awarded a total of $700,000 in grants and loans to Allegany Cou...
California State Parks Announces Grant Awards for Local Recreation Projects
California State Parks Director Lisa Ann L. Mangat announced recommendations to the National Park Service for $6,142,673 in funding for ten local park projects under the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) program. Grant funding is made available...
Ohio EPA Awards Community Grants for Recycling and Litter Prevention
The grants will expand three new curbside programs and provide infrastructure upgrades that will allow more efficient operation of eight material recovery facilities. In addition, funding is being channeled toward litter prevention, law enforcement, re...
Early career award goes to MSU scientist who investigates solar cell materials
A Montana State University faculty member who investigates new materials for solar cells has received an early career award from the U.S. Department of Energy.
Ohio EPA Awards Recycling Market Development Grants
Projects include assisting four businesses with recycling and diverting more material (including plastics, glass and fiber) from regional waste streams; expanding the capability of a construction and demolition debris facility; and increasing the capac...
State announces $1.6 million in public infrastructure project investments in Cowlitz, Okanogan, Skamania, and...
The Washington State Community Economic Revitalization Board (CERB) today approved $1,672,500 in grants and loans for infrastructure development and economic feasibility studies targeting business growth and job creation in the Port of Woodland, Town o...
OHFA Board Approves More Than $3 Million to Help Finance Affordable Housing in Lawrence,...
The Ohio Housing Finance Agency Board approved more than $3 million for affordable housing initiatives across the state of Ohio, including:
U.S. Department of Commerce Invests Nearly $2.2 Million to Support Manufacturing and Reshoring in...
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a nearly $2.2 million grant to the Ogden City Corporation in Ogden, Utah.
Wells Fargo grants $500,000 to help revitalize Tucson
Community Food Bank of S. AZ, Pima Council on Aging, Tucson Clean and Beautiful-Trees for Tucson, Tucson Urban League, Old Pueblo Community Services, Our Family Services, Pima Community College Foundation to benefit from NeighborhoodLIFT program funds
Kentucky Historical Society Announces Oral History Grant Recipients
The Kentucky Oral History Commission (KOHC), an agency of the Kentucky Historical Society, has awarded $29,202 in new grants to support oral history projects. These projects range from Appalshop in the Appalachian Mountains to a New Deal agricultural p...
The Working Lands Enterprise Initiative Announces over $1 Million in Grants to 36 Vermont...
Working Lands Enterprise Board announced this years 36 grant recipients 24 agriculture and 12 forestry projects for just over $1 million in both Working Lands and Local Food Market Development grant funding.
Housing Authority of the City of Austin awarded $250,000 to Improve Security for Elderly...
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has awarded the Housing Authority of the City of Austin (HACA) $250,000 to improve security and monitoring at Lakeside Apartments, an elderly public housing property located in Downtown Austin.
