EPA News - epa.gov (Washington, D.C. - March 6, 2008) Thirteen communities in 10 states will share more than $2.5 million in job training grants geared toward cleaning up contaminated properties and turning them into productive community assets. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, under its Brownfields Initiative, is awarding grants of up to $200,000 each to non-profit organizations, local governments, a university, and a tribe. The grants will teach environmental assessment and cleanup job skills to individuals living in low-income areas near brownfields sites in Alabama, California, Louisiana, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Washington.
"Through brownfields job training grants, EPA is literally putting both people and property back to work," said EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson. "By teaching people the skills to revitalize their own neighborhoods, EPA is improving lives and livelihoods in communities across the nation."
EPA's brownfields assistance has attracted more than $9.9 billion in private investment and helped attract more than 45,000 jobs.
Information on March 2008 grant recipients: http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/jt0308/jt0308.htm
"Through brownfields job training grants, EPA is literally putting both people and property back to work," said EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson. "By teaching people the skills to revitalize their own neighborhoods, EPA is improving lives and livelihoods in communities across the nation."
EPA's brownfields assistance has attracted more than $9.9 billion in private investment and helped attract more than 45,000 jobs.
Information on March 2008 grant recipients: http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/jt0308/jt0308.htm
Information on Brownfields job training grants: http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/job.htm
