Cooperative Agreement 83346701

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded a $417,878 Project Grant (CFDA 93.113 - Environmental Health) to Research Triangle Institute (RTI International) to conduct a comprehensive environmental and public health monitoring study in disadvantaged communities in Sampson and Duplin Counties, North Carolina. The study aims to establish a baseline assessment of environmental exposures and health outcomes prior to the expansion of swine waste-to-energy operations in the...

This USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Integrated Programs (CFDA 10.303) Project Grant award of $629,998 to Mississippi State University addresses critical issues facing the dry-cured pork industry's reliance on methyl bromide fumigation. The project aims to develop integrated pest management strategies to control the mite Tyrophagus putrescentiae without using methyl bromide. Key research objectives include: 1) Integrating nanoparticles and reinforcing agents into...

This $460,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the "Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act" (CFDA 66.034) program provides funding to the Wildlife Habitat Council, Inc. to conduct ambient air quality monitoring and community engagement activities in environmental justice communities in Detroit, Michigan and the Calumet watershed region of Chicago, Illinois. The...

This $205,767 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of a novel hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) technology to efficiently recover nutrients from animal manure into liquid fertilizer, while also producing value-added engineered carbon materials. The project aims to optimize nutrient recovery, improve resource utilization, and create new products to enhance the agricultural sector's sustainability and reduce...

This $179,640 Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) project grant, awarded by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, aims to improve understanding of nitrogen pollution in agricultural watersheds and develop better methods for managing and reducing this pollution. The project uses a combination of field experiments, sensor technology, and computer-based mapping tools to study the causes of post-storm nitrate enrichment - elevated nitrate levels in streams after storms....

This Project Grant award, funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Research Program (CFDA 66.509), provides $778,982 to Temple University to examine and address cumulative environmental exposures and health disparities in Hispanic environmental justice communities in Norristown, PA. The key activities include: Characterizing indoor home environmental quality and evaluating individual health, well-being, and quality of life Implementing and evaluating...

This $520,512 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 2 under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act (CFDA 66.034) program will fund a 3-year effort to establish a community-driven network platform to monitor outdoor and indoor air quality across underserved neighborhoods in New York State. Key activities include deploying 21 air quality monitoring sensors,...

This $499,715 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act (CFDA 66.034) program will support the Charleston Community Research to Action Board (CCRAB) in South Carolina to conduct ambient air monitoring of pollutants of greatest concern in communities with environmental and health disparities. The funding will enable CCRAB to establish a...

This Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under CFDA Program 66.034 - Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act, will fund the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) to enhance its air monitoring capabilities. Specifically, the $674,855 grant will enable WVDEP to purchase multi-flow calibrators, ozone monitors, and sulfur dioxide monitors to maintain and...

This $1,000,000 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310) will fund research at Purdue University to develop an intensive aquaculture production system with near-zero emissions through integrating recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS), phycoremediation using algae to treat wastewater, and anaerobic digestion for nutrient reuse, energy production and carbon...