Project Grant PG5239815

This federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (CFDA 45.149 - Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access) is providing $100,000.00 to the University of Delaware to develop low-cost air quality sensor protocols. The project aims to integrate these sensors into environmental monitoring practices at two cultural heritage institutions - the Winterthur Museum & Library and the Baltimore Museum of Art. This work will help develop data-driven...

The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM) was awarded a $214,709 Project Grant 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 this grant is to obtain air monitoring data in areas of Rhode Island that currently lack such data, and use this information to make informed decisions that will reduce exposures to...

The Executive Department of the State of Rhode Island was awarded a $750,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program (CFDA 15.904). This grant will fund restoration of interior finishes and the parade grounds, as well as research and documentation to update the National Register nomination for the historic site of the Old State House and Parade in Providence, Rhode Island. The project aims to...

This $133,333 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) will fund the development and implementation of a 10-session environmental and watershed curriculum for 10-15 middle and high school students in Providence, Rhode Island. The curriculum will be refined and adapted by the student participants for use in other local Rhode Island watersheds. Additionally, over 60 educators from at least 15 schools will...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $870,472 Project Grant under CFDA 66.034 - Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act to the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM). The grant funding will be used to maintain and upgrade the state's entire air monitoring network, as well as establish a new multipollutant monitoring site in a disadvantaged community in Woonsocket, Rhode...

This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Congressionally Mandated Projects program (CFDA 66.202) provides $210,000 in funding to the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM) Office of Air Resources. The grant supports RIDEM's efforts to expand volatile organic compound (VOC) monitoring in overburdened and underserved communities (environmental justice focus areas) across Rhode Island, using new optical gas imaging and...

This Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Toxic Substances Compliance Monitoring Cooperative Agreements program (CFDA 66.701), supports the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) in developing and maintaining compliance monitoring programs to prevent or eliminate unreasonable risks to health or the environment associated with asbestos. The $105,334 grant enables RIDOH to implement a state program to conduct 40 asbestos inspections at...

This $662,488 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 Hawaii Department of Health (HDOH) to expand and enhance their air monitoring activities. Specifically, the grant will enable HDOH to purchase, deploy, and maintain new ambient air monitoring equipment and supplies at 26...

This $404,000 Environmental Protection Agency project grant will fund the replacement and enhancement of particulate matter 2.5 and other National Ambient Air Quality Standards pollutant monitors in and near environmental justice communities in Connecticut from August 2022 to July 2024. The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, as awardee, will purchase continuous PM2.5 monitors to replace existing filter-based monitors, allowing for 24/7 real-time reporting of air...

The Environmental Protection Agency Region 1 awarded a $510,211 Project Grant to Health Resources In Action, Inc. (HRIA) doing business as The Medical Foundation under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act program (CFDA 66.034). HRIA will conduct ambient air monitoring of pollutants in environmental justice communities in Massachusetts disproportionately impacted by pollution and COVID-19. Activities include...