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• EPA Secures Agreement from Chemours to Conduct New Sampling for PFAS Contamination near Washington Works, WV Facility

  Agreement Reflects Agency’s National Enforcement Compliance Initiative on Addressing Exposure to PFAS

  EPA News Release: EPA Secures Agreement from Chemours to Conduct New Sampling for PFAS Contamination near Washington Works, WV Facility

  • Release Date: December 20, 2023

• Biden-Harris Administration Selects Green & Healthy Homes Initiative to Receive $50,000,000 to Fund Environmental Justice Projects Across the Mid-Atlantic as Part of Investing in America Agenda

  Grantmaker selected to reduce barriers to federal funds and issue thousands of environmental justice grants over the next three years

  EPA News Release: Biden-Harris Administration Selects Green & Healthy Homes Initiative to Receive $50,000,000 to Fund Environmental Justice Projects Across the Mid-Atlantic as Part of Investing in America Agenda

  • Release Date: December 20, 2023

• EPA Names Martha Shimkin as New Director of Chesapeake Bay Program

  EPA News Release: EPA Names Martha Shimkin as New Director of Chesapeake Bay Program

  • Release Date: December 15, 2023

• EPA Proposes Water Quality Standards to Protect Aquatic Life in Certain Sections of the Delaware River

  EPA News Release: EPA Proposes Water Quality Standards to Protect Aquatic Life in Certain Sections of the Delaware River

  • Release Date: December 14, 2023

• EPA Mid-Atlantic Administrator Offers Tips for an Environmentally-Friendly Holiday

  EPA News Release: EPA Mid-Atlantic Administrator Offers Tips for an Environmentally-Friendly Holiday

  • Release Date: December 13, 2023

• Biden-Harris Administration Announces $1 Million to Recruit and Train Pennsylvania Workers for Community Revitalization and Cleanup Projects as Part of Investing in America Agenda

  Latest funding for EPA’s Brownfield Job Training Grants is supported by the President’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and will boost workforce training in underserved and overburdened communities

  EPA News Release: Biden-Harris Administration Announces $1 Million to Recruit and Train Pennsylvania Workers for Community Revitalization and Cleanup Projects as Part of Investing in America Agenda

  • Release Date: December 8, 2023

• Five Star Urban Waters Grant Awarded to Canaan Valley Institute

  With support from EPA, community-led projects will restore urban waters and streams, address water quality in priority watersheds

  EPA News Release: Five Star Urban Waters Grant Awarded to Canaan Valley Institute

  • Release Date: August 29, 2019

• Five Star Urban Waters Grant Awarded to Elizabeth River Project

  With support from EPA, community-led projects will restore urban waters and streams, address water quality in priority watersheds

  EPA News Release: Five Star Urban Waters Grant Awarded to Elizabeth River Project

  • Release Date: August 29, 2019

• Five Star Urban Waters Grant Awarded to Anacostia Riverkeeper

  With support from EPA, community-led projects will restore urban waters and streams, address water quality in priority watersheds

  EPA News Release: Five Star Urban Waters Grant Awarded to Anacostia Riverkeeper

  • Release Date: August 29, 2019

• EPA selects Virginia’s Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden for $100,000 for community education program to reduce stormwater run-off

  EPA News Release: EPA selects Virginia’s Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden for $100,000 for community education program to reduce stormwater run-off

  • Release Date: August 27, 2019

• EPA awards Living Classrooms Foundation a $60,000 Environmental Education grant for South Baltimore program

  EPA News Release: EPA awards Living Classrooms Foundation a $60,000 Environmental Education grant for South Baltimore program

  • Release Date: August 27, 2019

• EPA selects Virginia’s Friends of the Rappahannock for $100,000 Environmental Education grant, professional development for teachers

  EPA News Release: EPA selects Virginia’s Friends of the Rappahannock for $100,000 Environmental Education grant, professional development for teachers

  • Release Date: August 27, 2019

• Baltimore’s Parks & People Foundation awarded $60,000 EPA Environmental Education grant

  Professionals help high school students learn green design

  EPA News Release: Baltimore’s Parks & People Foundation awarded $60,000 EPA Environmental Education grant

  • Release Date: August 27, 2019

• EPA recognizes two federal facilities in Pennsylvania with Green Challenge awards

  Local winners save resources and taxpayers’ money

  EPA News Release: EPA recognizes two federal facilities in Pennsylvania with Green Challenge awards

  • Release Date: August 22, 2019

• EPA Announces Federal Partnership to Build Nationwide Resilience to Natural Disasters

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces Federal Partnership to Build Nationwide Resilience to Natural Disasters

  • Release Date: August 15, 2019