Project Grant 96324001

The Sausalito Marin City School District received a $3,000,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Geographic Programs - San Francisco Bay Water Quality Improvement Fund (CFDA 66.126). The funding will support the design, permitting, and construction of a 600-foot daylighted, vegetated perennial creek channel, as well as the installation of green infrastructure stormwater management features on the Martin Luther King Jr. Academy's Nevada Campus. The project also...

This $1,186,077 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Pollution Prevention Grants Program (CFDA 66.708) will provide technical assistance to address environmental justice concerns and improve human health and the environment in disadvantaged communities. Specifically, the "Safer Primer and Painting Products Program" (SP4) project will: a) facilitate the reformulation of safer pipe cement, pipe primer, and...

This $500,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving (EJCPS) Cooperative Agreement Program (CFDA 66.306) will fund Thrive New Orleans to provide an intensive 6-week summer environmental education camp for 50 high school students each year. The students will gain understanding of the natural environment, native biodiversity, and benefits of water; develop practical green infrastructure skills to...

This $100,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) will support Mississippi State University (MSU) Extension's efforts to expand environmental education and watershed stewardship in communities throughout Mississippi, with a focus on the Jackson metropolitan area. The project aims to increase public awareness and knowledge about environmental issues, while providing local citizens with the skills to...

This $499,998 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving (EJCPS) Cooperative Agreement Program (CFDA 66.306) will enable One Love Global and its partners to advance water equity in Detroit, Michigan, with a focus on underserved Black and Brown communities. The main objectives include: 1) improving national and local environmental and public health tools with a water equity lens, and 2) supporting Black and...

The Environmental Protection Agency Region 9 awarded a $1.73 million Project Grant to the San Francisco Estuary Institute under the Geographic Programs - San Francisco Bay Water Quality Improvement Fund to develop and implement a green stormwater infrastructure curriculum and engagement program. The grant period runs from June 1, 2023 through December 31, 2026. Under the award, SFEI will partner with Urban Tilth, University of California Berkeley, and the San Francisco Estuary Partnership to...

This federal Project Grant award of $100,000, provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the People, Prosperity, and the Planet (P3) Award Program (CFDA 66.516), aims to develop an affordable and easy-to-use sensor for highly selective and sensitive detection of lead in tap water. The key objectives are to: 1) optimize the selectivity and sensitivity of Janus gold nanorod-based colorimetric sensors for lead analysis in tap water, 2) quantify the influence of tap water matrices on...

This $425,393 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Sea Grant Support program (CFDA 11.417) aims to develop community awareness and action to reduce anthropogenic debris input into the North American Great Lakes. The primary activities include installing trash capture devices (LittaTraps) in storm drains and delivering an educational program (CASCADE) to foster local connections to the lakes and motivate debris pollution...

This $195,459 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) will fund Neighborhood House of Milwaukee, Inc. to implement a two-year environmental education initiative. The project will design, demonstrate, and disseminate environmental education practices, methods, and techniques to increase environmental literacy and encourage pro-environmental behaviors among underserved youth in grades 1-12 in...

This $199,998 Project Grant from the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Research and Development to The University of North Carolina at Charlotte will support the development of a regenerable, low-cost cellulose nanofiber membrane system for point-of-use water purification cartridges. The goals of the project are to optimize functionalization of cellulose nanofibers to create novel materials for incorporation into residential water purification cartridges similar to commercially...