The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded the Oxnard Harbor District (dba Port of Hueneme) a $500,000 Project Grant under the "Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act" (CFDA 66.034) program. The purpose of this grant is to conduct ambient air quality monitoring of pollutants in communities with environmental and health disparities stemming from pollution and the COVID-19 pandemic. The grant will...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 2 awarded the Puerto Rico Commonwealth Of $247,500 under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act program (CFDA 66.034) for the period of August 1, 2022 through July 30, 2024. The purpose of this American Rescue Plan-funded cooperative agreement is to enhance monitoring of particulate matter 2.5 or other National Ambient Air Quality Standards pollutants in communities...
This federal Project Grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Research Program (CFDA 66.509) aims to examine environmental exposures in Hispanic environmental justice communities, implement and evaluate an intervention program to improve indoor air quality and reduce health disparities, and develop a sustainable action plan. The $778,982 award, running from December 1, 2024 to November 30, 2027, will support the following key activities:...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 9 awarded a $500,000 Project Grant under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act (CFDA 66.034) program to Comite Civico Del Valle, Inc. The grant funding will support the establishment of a regional air monitoring network in the Salton Sea Air Basin to screen for toxic metal hazardous air pollutants (HAPs). This will leverage Comite Civico Del Valle, Inc.'s...
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...
The City of Albuquerque Environmental Health Department received a $423,604 Project Grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 6 under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act (CFDA 66.034) program. The purpose of this award is to maintain a fine particulate matter (PM2.5) monitoring network to collect quality-assured data on ambient air concentrations of PM2.5, its chemical composition, and...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $500,000 and issued 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 support community-based ambient air quality monitoring efforts in the South Bronx, New York. The primary activities will involve establishing air quality monitoring teams and infrastructure in several South Bronx...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $499,988 Project Grant to Miami-Dade County, Florida 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 support the expansion and strengthening of the "What's Your 305 Air Quality?" community partnership program. Key activities include: Establishing the "What's Your 305 Air Quality?" Miami-Dade...
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) awarded a $472,656 Project Grant under the CFDA 66.034 "Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act" program to the Black Parents United Foundation (BPUF) to conduct ambient air monitoring in vulnerable communities in Aurora, Colorado. The funding will support the establishment of a mobile air monitoring trailer to continuously track levels of ozone precursors,...