The Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 awarded a $284,389 Project Grant to the Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951). The grant will support environmental education activities for 1,000 seventh grade students in Albuquerque, Truth or Consequence, Los Lunas, Belen, and Rio Rancho, New Mexico. Students will learn about bosque ecosystem health through outdoor lessons and data collection measuring groundwater depth, precipitation...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $398,500 grant under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act (CFDA 66.034) program to the City of Albuquerque Environmental Health Department. The funding will be used to enhance air quality monitoring activities, with a focus on improving the monitoring of particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) and other National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) pollutants in...
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 federal Project Grant award, provided 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 program (CFDA 66.034), will fund a $500,000 initiative to conduct ambient air quality monitoring in communities with environmental and health disparities in the South Bronx, New York. The key activities under this grant include establishing community-based air quality...
The Pueblo of Isleta was awarded a $160,000 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 2 under the National Wildlife Refuge System Enhancements program (CFDA 15.654). The funding will support the Pueblo's participation in the Community-Based Environmental Justice Air Monitoring Network (EJ AIR) project, in collaboration with the Mountain View Neighborhood and Greater South Valley. The project aims to collect baseline data on air pollution in...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 awarded the City of Albuquerque, New Mexico a $115,000 Project Grant under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act program (CFDA 66.034). The grant funds will be used to enhance particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) and other National Ambient Air Quality Standards pollutant monitoring in communities facing disproportionate pollution exposure and health risks, which are...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 awarded $404,200 to the New Mexico Environment Department under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act federal grant program (CFDA 66.034) to advance enhanced monitoring of particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) or other national ambient air quality standards pollutants in and near communities with environmental justice concerns in New Mexico. Funding will be used to upgrade...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the 66.034 - Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act program, provides $264,390 in funding to the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) Air Quality Bureau. The grant supports the expansion and enhancement of NMED's air monitoring activities, including upgrading equipment, site structures, and the data network to...
This Project Grant award of $910,488 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 9, under the CFDA program 66.034 - Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act, will provide funding to the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) to expand and enhance their air monitoring activities. The key products and services to be delivered include: Procurement and deployment of data telemetry, laboratory,...
Tree New Mexico, Inc. received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 under the Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving Cooperative Agreement Program (CFDA 66.306) to address urban heat island effects in Albuquerque, New Mexico from April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2024. The award will fund activities to develop a citizen science heat mapping and monitoring program, conduct tree plantings and educational workshops on tree care, and analyze air...