The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 awarded a $429,746 Project Grant to the City of Madison, Wisconsin to conduct air quality monitoring and promote community partnerships related to the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act (CFDA 66.034) program. The funding will be used to install a city-wide network of air quality sensors to provide publicly accessible information on particulate matter...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 awarded the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources $198,000 under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act federal grant program (CFDA 66.034) on August 1, 2022 with a projected completion date of July 31, 2024. The purpose of this American Rescue Plan funded project grant is to advance enhanced monitoring of particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) and other National Ambient...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $442,354 Project Grant to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) through the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act (CFDA 66.034) program. The purpose of this 3-year grant is to coordinate Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) related work, including air sensor research, policy and data analysis, and community outreach. Key activities include hiring a policy...
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 $115,000 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 will fund the Forest County Potawatomi Community in Wisconsin to upgrade their regulatory air monitoring site. The award will enable the tribe to replace aging monitoring equipment with newer models to ensure consistent, reliable, and accurate data collection...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5, under the "Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act" (CFDA 66.034) program, provides $456,170 to Warehouse Workers Justice Center, a non-profit organization, to conduct ambient air monitoring of pollutants in communities with environmental and health disparities stemming from pollution and the COVID-19 pandemic. The key...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 awarded a $745,854 Project Grant to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA) under the federal Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act (CFDA 66.034) grant program. The purpose of this grant is to provide financial assistance to Ohio EPA to support their air monitoring efforts, including funding personnel costs, purchasing air sensors and detectors,...
The City of Minneapolis, Minnesota received a $411,170 project grant award from the United States Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act federal grant program (CFDA #66.034). The grant funds will support community air quality monitoring and education efforts in environmental justice neighborhoods from June 2023 through November 2025. Specifically, the City will...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 1 awarded a $510,211 Project Grant to Health Resources In Action, Inc. (HRIA) doing business as The Medical Foundation under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act program (CFDA 66.034). HRIA will conduct ambient air monitoring of pollutants in environmental justice communities in Massachusetts disproportionately impacted by pollution and COVID-19. Activities include...
This $136,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 will support the Mobile Care Foundation's (MCF) efforts to provide home environment assessments and air quality monitoring to asthma and allergy patients in underserved areas of Chicago and its southern suburbs. Funded through EPA's $100K-or-less Environmental Justice Small Grants Program, MCF will sustain and expand its pilot program pairing virtual home assessments with air allergen sensors. Outputs will...