The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $305,000 Project Grant to the Cook County Department of Environment and Sustainability under the Federal Grant Program 66.034 - Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act. The funding will be used to upgrade and expand the county's air monitoring equipment and activities, with a focus on enhancing the monitoring of nitrogen oxides, ozone, and sulfur dioxide...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 awarded a $1,110,081 Project Grant to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) under 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 replace aging air monitoring and quality assurance audit equipment in order to maintain and enhance IEPA's existing multipollutant air monitoring operations. Many of the...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 9 awarded a $123,159 Project Grant to the Clark County Department of Environment and Sustainability (CCDES) under the "Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act" program (CFDA 66.034). The purpose of this grant is to conduct and promote research, investigations, and studies related to air pollution control. Specifically, CCDES will use the funding to...
This $440,485 Project Grant awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 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 Ecology Action Center (EAC) to conduct ambient air quality monitoring in communities in the Bloomington-Normal, Illinois area with environmental and health disparities stemming from pollution and the COVID-19 pandemic. EAC will...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 awarded a $181,600 Project Grant to the County of Hamilton, Ohio under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act federal grant program (CFDA 66.034). The purpose of this American Rescue Plan-funded grant is to advance enhanced monitoring of particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) or other National Ambient Air Quality Standards pollutants in communities with environmental justice...
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 County of Clark Department of Environment and Sustainability Division received a $189,304 project grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 9 under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act program (CFDA 66.034). The grant funds the collection of quality-assured particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) concentration data and submission of results to EPA's National Air Quality Database from April 1,...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $398,104 Project Grant to the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) 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 3-year award is to enhance and assure continuous air quality monitoring activities in Maryland, including monitoring of particulate matter (PM2.5), air toxics, and other National Ambient Air...
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 Environmental Protection Agency Region 8 awarded the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment a $445,000 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 will fund upgrading 12 air quality monitors, 6 monitor shelters, and associated data logging and meteorological equipment to enhance particulate matter 2.5 monitoring in communities near Denver,...