Project Grant 00E01513

This $2,000,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Reduce, Reuse, Recycling Education and Outreach (CFDA 66.921) program will fund a comprehensive recycling outreach and education campaign led by the Metropolitan Mayors Caucus in Northeastern Illinois. The three-year initiative aims to increase waste prevention activities, boost recycling participation rates, and reduce contamination in the recycling stream across 275 municipalities and 7 counties. Key activities...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 has awarded a $471,126 Cooperative Agreement under the Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) Grant Program (CFDA 66.920) to the State of Ohio Office of Budget and Management State Accounting, operating as the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA). The purpose of this award is to enhance Ohio EPA's efforts to meet the SWIFR grants elements. Through this funding, Ohio EPA will conduct a statewide full waste characterization...

This Cooperative Agreement provides $3,000,000 in funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 under the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CFDA 66.046) program to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA) to develop a comprehensive, economy-wide climate mitigation plan for the state. The key deliverables include a Priority Climate Action Plan due by March 2024 and a Comprehensive Climate Action Plan due by summer 2025. The funding will also support stakeholder...

The Environmental Protection Agency Region 3 awarded a $350,000 Project Grant to the University of Maryland, College Park under the Pollution Prevention Grants Program (CFDA 66.708). The grant will provide technical assistance to small brewery businesses in Delaware and Southeastern Pennsylvania to help them adopt source reduction practices that improve environmental outcomes while reducing costs. Specifically, the University will refine a pollution prevention benchmarking and assessment tool,...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 awarded the City of Cincinnati a Cooperative Agreement totaling $4,999,557 under the Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) Infrastructure Grants program (CFDA 66.920), effective April 1, 2026, through March 31, 2029. This award supports the City's efforts to modernize and expand its curbside recycling infrastructure by procuring and deploying 80,000 new recycling carts to replace broken...

The Pacific Northwest Pollution Prevention Resource Center (PPRC) was awarded a $121,053 project grant from the Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 under the Source Reduction Assistance federal grant program (CFDA 66.717). The grant will fund PPRC's delivery of pollution prevention technical assistance services to six industrial facilities located in economically disadvantaged communities in Washington, Idaho, and Oregon. Services will include hosting roundtable discussions on pollution...

This $157,667 project grant awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Research Program (CFDA 66.509) will develop new models, methods, and software tools to enable greater sustainability and circularity in the U.S. chemicals industry. Key activities include creating an open-access model of the current U.S. chemicals industry, developing innovative methods for discovering novel circular chemical reaction networks, and designing frameworks for...

This $350,000 Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 Project Grant will provide technical assistance to businesses in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to adopt source reduction practices from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2024. Under the Pollution Prevention Grants Program (CFDA #66.708), the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality will identify businesses using organic solvents in uniquely vulnerable areas and provide them with information, training, and tools to reduce and replace toxic...

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency will implement the $311,000 Fish and Benthos Improvements with Urban Chloride Reductions Project under a Project Grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469). The project aims to develop a three-phased approach to reducing chloride levels in the Maumee Area of Concern and implement the first phase, helping to restore biological communities impaired by degraded benthos and fish populations. The Ohio...

The Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 awarded Groundwork Ohio River Valley, Inc. a $156,331 Project Grant under the Environmental Justice Small Grant Program (CFDA 66.604). The grant will fund expansion of the recipient's air quality education, training, and monitoring programs for its Green Team youth workforce and neighborhood residents in Cincinnati, Ohio. Activities include compiling neighborhood- and individual-level air toxin exposure data through citizen-driven monitoring efforts...