The Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 awarded the City of Albuquerque, New Mexico a $115,000 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 funds will be used to enhance particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) and other National Ambient Air Quality Standards pollutant monitoring in communities facing disproportionate pollution exposure and health risks, which are...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $398,500 grant under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act (CFDA 66.034) program to the City of Albuquerque Environmental Health Department. The funding will be used to enhance air quality monitoring activities, with a focus on improving the monitoring of particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) and other National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) pollutants in...
This Formula Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 6 provides $2,398,273 in funding to the City of Albuquerque Environmental Health Department to implement air pollution control programs throughout the city. The grant supports activities within the EPA's Section 105 Air Pollution Control Program, including air quality monitoring, emissions inventory development, regulation implementation, public outreach, and other initiatives to attain and maintain National...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 awarded $404,200 to the New Mexico Environment Department under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act federal grant program (CFDA 66.034) to advance enhanced monitoring of particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) or other national ambient air quality standards pollutants in and near communities with environmental justice concerns in New Mexico. Funding will be used to upgrade...
The City of Albuquerque received a $999,652 Cooperative Agreement from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants program (CFDA 66.046) to develop or update regional climate mitigation plans to address greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and reduction measures across the metropolitan area. Key deliverables include a Priority Climate Action Plan due by March 1, 2024, a Comprehensive Climate Action Plan due two years from the award date, and a final status...
This $260,272 Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 Project Grant to the New Mexico Environment Department will support fine particulate matter monitoring networks and related activities from April 2022 through March 2024. As part of the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act program (CFDA 66.034), the recipient will collect quality-assured PM2.5 concentration data and submit results to EPA's National Air...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 4 awarded a $437,545 Project Grant to the Southern Research Institute to conduct ambient air quality monitoring in two underserved neighborhoods in Birmingham, Alabama. This grant is funded through the EPA's "Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act" program (CFDA 66.034). The project will monitor levels of particulate matter, gaseous pollutants, and...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $488,210 Project Grant under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act (CFDA 66.034) program to Pima County, Arizona. The purpose is to conduct ambient air monitoring of pollutants in communities with environmental justice and COVID-19 health disparities. Pima County will leverage relationships with school districts to deploy low-cost outdoor air pollution...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 9 awarded a $219,107 Project Grant to the San Diego County Air Pollution Control District, a local government agency, under the "Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act" (CFDA 66.034) program. This award provides funding to develop emission inventories and conduct health risk impact evaluations for facilities in San Diego County that emit criteria...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $662,489 Project Grant under the CFDA Program 66.034 - Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act to Pima County, Arizona. The funding will support the expansion and enhancement of Pima County's air monitoring activities, including the purchase of new monitoring supplies and equipment, calibration and certification of monitoring equipment, hiring of a new Quality...