This Project Grant award, totaling $500,000 and made by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Research Program (CFDA 66.509), aims to elucidate the policy-making process to mitigate environmental exposures and elevate resident voices in Colorado's Commerce City-North Denver neighborhoods. The key objectives are to: (1) develop models of the cumulative health burden experienced by these marginalized communities, and (2) facilitate resident roundtables to...
This $800,051 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Research Program (CFDA 66.509) will support Temple University's research examining baseline levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in urban farming and gardening resources, as well as the bioavailability of PFAS in edible crops. The key activities of this 3-year project include: (1) quantifying the impact of soil, nutrient amendments, and irrigation water on...
This Project Grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency's Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Research Program (CFDA 66.509) provides $500,000 to The Regents of the University of California, Berkeley to create comprehensive cumulative impact indices that assess the effects of chemical and non-chemical stressors on respiratory conditions, cardiovascular diseases, and lung cancer within underserved communities in California. The key activities include: 1) investigating the cumulative...
This EPA Region 3 Project Grant award for $539,500 under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act program (CFDA 66.034) will fund the City of Philadelphia's Air Management Services (AMS) division to expand and enhance air monitoring activities in the Nicetown-Tioga neighborhood. The key products and services to be delivered include: Establishing a new multipollutant air monitoring station to measure PM2.5, NO2,...
The City of Philadelphia received a $149,000 project grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency Region 3 to advance enhanced monitoring of particulate matter 2.5 or other national ambient air quality standards pollutants in communities with environmental justice concerns. The purpose of the funding is to replace or upgrade existing filter-based monitors to provide 24/7 real-time reporting of air quality concentrations. Funds may also be used to upgrade other air quality monitoring...
The City of Philadelphia's Air Management Services Division received a $389,206 Project Grant from 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. The purpose of this grant is to conduct ambient air monitoring of pollutants of greatest concern in three overburdened communities in Philadelphia near major emission sources like the former...
The City of Philadelphia Air Management Services Division, part of the city's Public Health Department, received a $193,504 federal Project Grant award from the 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. The purpose of the 2-year grant, awarded on January 1, 2024, is to establish a new air monitoring station in the Nicetown neighborhood in North...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $499,922 Project Grant to the Hispanic Access Foundation (HAF) 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 competitively selected American Rescue Plan-funded grant is to conduct ambient air monitoring of pollutants of greatest concern in communities with environmental and health outcome disparities stemming from...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 3 awarded $202,500 to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection 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 project grant is to enhance monitoring of particulate matter 2.5 and other National Ambient Air Quality Standards pollutants in communities with environmental...
This $100,000 Project Grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) will enable CASA, Inc., a non-profit organization, to design, demonstrate, and disseminate environmental education practices and techniques to increase environmental literacy and promote pro-environmental behaviors in impacted communities. Key activities include the Climate Justice Fellowship Program, which will build the capacity of CASA and five local...