Project Grant NR222D37XXXXG002

This $15,309,845 federal 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 support a Pittsburgh-Philadelphia partnership between Landforce (Pittsburgh Conservation Corps) and PowerCorpsPHL, along with sub-awardees like The Pennsylvania State University and Thomas Jefferson University. The project aims to transform urban wood reuse by creating full-campus models for woody biomass...

This Project Grant award of $371,516, provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Reduce, Reuse, Recycling Education and Outreach (REO) Grant Program (CFDA 66.921), supports the Clean Air Council's efforts to enhance residential composting and recycling in the disadvantaged communities of Braddock, Clairton, and Swissvale, Pennsylvania. The project aims to build and support backyard and community composting systems, including conducting outreach campaigns, developing...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Congressionally Mandated Projects program (CFDA 66.202), provides $625,000 in funding to the Town of North East (MD) to remove sediment from the Leslie Water Treatment Plant (LWTP). The project activities include temporarily shutting down the LWTP, dewatering the pond, and using earth-moving equipment to excavate, load, and haul off the accumulated sediment. The anticipated deliverables include the...

This Project Grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Research Program (CFDA 66.509) provides $800,051 to Temple University to examine baseline levels and bioavailability of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in urban farming and gardening resources, as well as their impact on edible crops. The key activities and expected outcomes of this one-year project include: (1) quantifying the impact of soil, nutrient amendments, and...

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) was awarded a $245,082,772 Abandoned Mine Land (AML) Reclamation Formula Grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE). This grant, provided under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law's AML program (CFDA 15.252), will support activities to reclaim eligible abandoned coal mine lands and address associated environmental and safety hazards within Pennsylvania. Key activities...

This $76,406,474 Formula Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Energy Community Revitalization Program (CFDA 15.018) provides funding to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to plug, remediate, and reclaim orphaned oil and gas wells on state and private lands within Pennsylvania. Key products and services to be delivered through this 5-year grant include: Plugging, remediating, or reclaiming up to 503 orphaned wells to reduce methane emissions and...

This $757,974 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research by The Pennsylvania State University, doing business as Penn State, to develop a systems modeling framework for designing climate-resilient levee infrastructure that supports equitable, resilient, and sustainable floodplain communities. The project aims to address interactions between levee network performance, future climates, natural infrastructure, and behavioral...

This $100,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration (NRDAR) Program (CFDA 15.658) will fund the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (MDEGLE) to collect sediment core samples and conduct probing transects upstream of the Allegan City Dam along the Kalamazoo River. The data collected will characterize the sediments down to pre-dam historic riverbed levels, which...

This $500,000 Project Grant award, funded by the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Research Program (CFDA 66.509), aims to elucidate the policy-making process for mitigating environmental exposures and elevating resident voices in addressing legacy pollutants and ongoing contaminants that result in negative health outcomes in Colorado's Front Range communities. The key activities of this grant include: (1) developing models to assess the cumulative...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) Grant Program (CFDA 66.920), provides $511,502 in funding to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026. Through this award, DEP will carry out several key activities to enhance Pennsylvania's post-consumer materials management, including: 1) Conducting assessments of the state's food...