Project Grant 00J06501

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 Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), within the Department of Commerce, will provide $350,000 to the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (Cmap) to develop new resources for flood resilience prioritization. Funded through NOAA's Congressionally Identified Awards and Projects program (CFDA 11.469), Cmap will update the Chicago region's Urban Flood Susceptibility Index with additional data to help local and county governments in Northeastern...

This Project Grant award, provided by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the CFDA Program 66.034 - Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act, will fund the expansion and enhancement of air monitoring activities by the District of Columbia Department of Energy and Environment (DOEE). The $600,000 award will enable DOEE to establish a mobile air monitoring platform focused on providing hyper-local,...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program (CFDA 15.810) provides $613,653.00 to the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) to conduct geologic mapping and research projects across Mississippi. The key deliverables include: Surficial geologic maps, cross-sections, and databases for the Redwood, Vicksburg East, and Vicksburg West quadrangles in Warren and Issaquena Counties. Surficial and...

This $20,000,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grants Program (CFDA 66.616) will fund the "Moving Evansville Towards a Healthier Future" project in Evansville, Indiana. The project comprises four integrated, mutually reinforcing initiatives designed to comprehensively address community challenges related to poor air quality, related health impacts, and lack of clean transportation...

This $500,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities under the Integrative Activities federal grant program (CFDA 47.083) will support the development of a geospatial big data infrastructure and services. Led by researchers at North Carolina Central University in partnership with three other minority-serving institutions, the award will coordinate the creation and sharing of new GIS data layers according to FAIR data principles. Standardized...

Tree New Mexico, Inc. received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 under the Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving Cooperative Agreement Program (CFDA 66.306) to address urban heat island effects in Albuquerque, New Mexico from April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2024. The award will fund activities to develop a citizen science heat mapping and monitoring program, conduct tree plantings and educational workshops on tree care, and analyze air...

This $944,618 federal Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 1 under the Environmental Justice Government-to-Government (EJG2G) Program (CFDA 66.312) provides funding to the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM) to strengthen community connections and build understanding of environmental justice concerns in the Upper Narragansett Bay watershed. Key activities include training a cohort of staff from community-based...

This EPA Region 2 Cooperative Agreement award provides $442,770 in funding to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) to carry out ground-truthing and analysis of two wetland mapping methods in Bergen and Atlantic Counties, New Jersey. The goal is to determine if these novel methods could improve future land use/land cover (LULC) mapping efforts across the state. Key activities include developing a quality assurance project plan, conducting field data collection and...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded a $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) under the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants program (CFDA 66.046) to develop or update regional climate action plans covering the Boston-Cambridge-Newton metropolitan area. Specifically, MAPC will create a Priority Climate Action Plan (PCAP) due by March 2024, a Comprehensive Climate Action Plan (CCAP) due within 2 years, and a status report by the end of the...