The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 awarded a $135,000 Project Grant to the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (MDEGLE) under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469). The grant funding will enable MDEGLE to extend learning beyond the classroom by providing a funding opportunity for student-led community-based water stewardship projects. The project will engage up to 1,750 students and educators in experiential...
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy will receive $149,025 from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative federal grant program (CFDA #66.469) to expand its "From Students to Stewards Initiative" program. This program will award grant opportunities to K-12 schools in Michigan to integrate place-based education into their curriculums focused on the Great Lakes. The goal is to help close the Great Lakes literacy gap and...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 has awarded a $7,561,778 Project Grant to the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (MDEGLE) under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469). The purpose of this 5-year grant award is to evaluate gaps in previously collected sediment data within the Detroit River Area of Concern (AOC) in order to further define the scope of future sediment cleanup actions. Key activities include: 1)...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) provides $192,352.00 to the Inland Seas Education Association to implement an environmental education project in Suttons Bay, Michigan. The project will design, demonstrate, and disseminate environmental education practices, methods, and techniques to increase environmental literacy and encourage pro-environmental behaviors. Key activities include hosting...
This Project Grant award of $500,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) provides funding to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) to implement a comprehensive program for public education and early detection of aquatic invasive species (AIS) in Michigan. Key activities include sharing AIS information through social media and billboards, conducting a mobile boat wash program with vegetation...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $800,000 project grant under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) to the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (MDEGLE). The grant will fund a project to provide incentive payments to farmers in the Western Lake Erie Basin to reduce phosphorous fertilizer application and runoff into surface waters. Key activities include developing quality documentation, engaging with farmers,...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $1,059,022 Project Grant to the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (MDEGLE) under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) to implement two green infrastructure projects in the Ox Creek watershed of Benton Harbor, Michigan. The projects will reduce stormwater runoff by 850,000 gallons per year through the installation of bioretention areas, native plantings, and swales. MDEGLE will...
This $2,241,767 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) will enable the Southeast Michigan Council Of Governments Fund to create the Advancing Environmental Quality of Life in Underserved Communities Grants Program. The program will provide technical support, capacity building, and guidance to up to 15 local government entities in Southeast Michigan to implement green...
This $770,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the CERCLA Section 128(a) State and Tribal Response Program Grants (CFDA 66.817) program is intended to enhance the capacity of the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy's (MDEGLE) brownfields response program. The key activities under this award include: conducting timely surveys and inventories of brownfield sites across Michigan, overseeing and enforcing response actions to...
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (MDEGLE) received a $807,837 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the CERCLA Section 128(a) State and Tribal Response Program (CFDA 66.817). The primary objectives of this grant are to enable MDEGLE to (1) establish or enhance the statutory elements of an effective state response program for addressing brownfields sites, (2) maintain a public record of completed and planned response...