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EPA Grant Supports Environmental Teacher Training on Transportation Issues

Release Date: 8/4/1999
Contact Information: Donna M. Heron (215) 814-5113

GREENFIELD, Mass. -- The Northeast Sustainable Energy Association has received a $7,269 environmental education grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to train approximately 5,000 sixth, seventh and eighth-grade teachers.

The workshop, “Getting Around Without Gasoline,”will be held this fall in Delaware, Washington, DC, and the Baltimore-Annapolis area. It is designed to raise awareness of environmental and health hazards associated with transportation choices.

The goal of the program is to introduce middle school teachers to a new set of educational materials to help them teach their students about environmental issues.
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"A program like this is vitally important because motor vehicles produce more than 50 percent of hazardous air pollutants. Vehicle emissions are a major contributor to health and environmental problems," said W. Michael McCabe, EPA’s regional administrator for the mid-Atlantic region.

EPA’s education grant program is designed to simulate grass-roots environmental education. In the mid-Atlantic region, 25 grant recipients include schools, civic groups and non-profit organizations. Nationally, $3 million was awarded in 1999.

For more information on this grant, contact Eugene Mattis at 215-814-5747. EPA’s Regional Internet Home Page also has general information on the grants https://www.epa.gov/region03.