Environmental Justice through Pollution Prevention Grants

The Environmental Protection Agency Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention is no longer actively funding the Environmental Justice through Pollution Prevention Grants program (CFDA 66.711), with the most recent award issued on April 1, 2002—over 24 years ago. This program has not issued new grant opportunities in recent activity windows and should be treated as inactive for business development purposes.

When active, the program funded community-level pollution prevention and environmental justice initiatives through Project Grants exclusively. The award portfolio demonstrates a focus on pesticide safety education, worker protection from occupational exposures (including diesel emissions), tribal environmental conservation, hazardous waste collection events, and pollution prevention outreach targeting low-income and disadvantaged populations. Representative awards include the Pesticide Education to Prevent Exposure project ($74,990), the Worker to Worker Pollution Prevention Project ($80,470), the Improving Tribal Environments initiative ($91,523), and the Diesel Exposure Reduction Project ($75,000).

The program issued 22 Project Grants over its active period (1998–2002), concentrated in 2001, when 10 awards were disbursed. The EPA Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention was the sole funding source across all awards. Combined federal dollars obligated totaled $470 thousand against a combined total obligation of $516 thousand, indicating modest cost-sharing from recipients. Individual awards ranged from approximately $19,000 to $91,523, with several awards carrying negative obligations reflecting final reconciliations or deobligations.

No current grant opportunities are open under this Assistance Listing. Prospective applicants should verify current EPA environmental justice funding streams through active programs or explore successor initiatives under the agency's environmental justice portfolio, as this particular line has not awarded new grants for over two decades.