Cooperative Agreement 96348101

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Brownfields Job Training Cooperative Agreements program (CFDA 66.815), provides $500,000 in funding to the Northside Industrial Development Company, doing business as Riverside Center For Innovation, to conduct environmental workforce development activities. The recipient will recruit, train, and place approximately 150 unemployed and underemployed residents of Pittsburgh in environmental careers. The...

This $100,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) will enable Women for a Healthy Environment (WHE), a non-profit organization, to implement a 1-year project that designs, demonstrates, and disseminates environmental education practices, methods, and techniques to increase environmental literacy and encourage pro-environmental behaviors in Pittsburgh, PA. The key activities include: 1) Creating eco-student...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 9, under the Brownfields Job Training Cooperative Agreements program (CFDA 66.815), provides $494,000 in funding to the City of Pittsburg, California to recruit, train, and place unemployed and underemployed residents of Northeastern Contra Costa County in environmental careers. The program will operate over 5 years, conducting 8 training cycles with 20-22 participants each, focusing on skills and...

The Environmental Protection Agency Region 3 awarded Auberle a $499,169 cooperative agreement under the Brownfields Job Training Program (CFDA 66.815) from April 1, 2023 through March 31, 2028. The award will fund training and placement of 95 unemployed and underemployed residents of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania in environmental careers involving hazardous waste site remediation. Specifically, Auberle will conduct 12 classroom and practical training sessions covering 40-hour OSHA HAZWOPER...

This Project Grant award of $371,516, provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Reduce, Reuse, Recycling Education and Outreach (REO) Grant Program (CFDA 66.921), supports the Clean Air Council's efforts to enhance residential composting and recycling in the disadvantaged communities of Braddock, Clairton, and Swissvale, Pennsylvania. The project aims to build and support backyard and community composting systems, including conducting outreach campaigns, developing...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 3 awarded a $149,336 Cooperative Agreement to the Pittsburgh Conservation Corps under the Solid Waste Management Assistance Grants program (CFDA 66.808). The project aims to implement an integrated model for biomass management and workforce development, diverting 625 tons of urban wood waste annually to produce 150,000 board feet of merchantable lumber in the first year. The project will establish a sawmill to process fallen trees into...

This $199,327 cooperative agreement from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 3 through the Brownfields Job Training Cooperative Agreements program (CFDA 66.815) will fund Auberle to provide environmental career training and placement services. Auberle will recruit, train, and place 50 unemployed and underemployed residents of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania in environmental remediation jobs through classroom and practical training courses in OSHA HAZWOPER, asbestos, lead, and...

The Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy (PPC) was awarded a $130,626 Project Grant from the Environmental Protection Agency Region 3 under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) to develop a Junior Young Naturalist program. The program will provide environmental education to middle school students through Propel Schools' summer camps for five weeks and a one-week intensive program for 12 youth ages 13-15. It will also provide $5,000 subawards to five organizations to support...

This federal Project Grant award of $539,500 from the 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 fund the expansion and enhancement of air monitoring activities in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The key products and services to be delivered include procuring and installing new air measurement instrumentation, calibrators, and zero air sources...

This $500,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 2 under the Brownfields Job Training Cooperative Agreements (CFDA 66.815) program will provide funding for Pathstone Corporation, a Rochester, NY-based non-profit organization, to recruit, train, and place unemployed and underemployed residents of Puerto Rico in environmental careers. The core training program will include 80 hours of instruction in hazardous waste operations, emergency response,...