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• EPA’s Design for the Environment Program Highlighted in Amazon’s Climate Pledge Friendly Program

  EPA News Release: EPA’s Design for the Environment Program Highlighted in Amazon’s Climate Pledge Friendly Program

  • Release Date: November 30, 2022

• EPA Releases First-ever Agency-Wide Strategy to Reduce Lead Exposures and Disparities in U.S. Communities

  Strategy to reduce impacts of lead-exposure on high-risk communities, builds on historic investments from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

  EPA News Release: EPA Releases First-ever Agency-Wide Strategy to Reduce Lead Exposures and Disparities in U.S. Communities

  • Release Date: October 27, 2022

• EPA Awards $750,000 Pollution Prevention Grants to Oregon, Idaho and the Knik Tribal Council, Funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

  EPA News Release: EPA Awards $750,000 Pollution Prevention Grants to Oregon, Idaho and the Knik Tribal Council, Funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

  • Release Date: October 19, 2022

• EPA Celebrates Children’s Health Month, Highlighting Unprecedented Investment in Protecting Children’s Health

  Historic levels of funding from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act will go towards protecting children

  EPA News Release: EPA Celebrates Children’s Health Month, Highlighting Unprecedented Investment in Protecting Children’s Health

  • Release Date: October 4, 2022

• Oakridge-Westfir communities attain Clean Air Act standards for fine particle pollution

  Local collaborative efforts result in cleaner and healthier air during winter months

  EPA News Release: Oakridge-Westfir communities attain Clean Air Act standards for fine particle pollution

  • Release Date: September 23, 2022

• EPA Regional Administrator to tout brownfields investments in Portland low-income housing

  Agency has provided Oregon with $8.3 million to revitalize blighted sites

  EPA News Release: EPA Regional Administrator to tout brownfields investments in Portland low-income housing

  • Release Date: August 11, 2022

• EPA’s Local Government Advisory Committee adopts infrastructure investment recommendations for communities, climate, and environmental justice

  EPA News Release: EPA’s Local Government Advisory Committee adopts infrastructure investment recommendations for communities, climate, and environmental justice

  • Release Date: February 17, 2022

• EPA Proposes Guidance to Support Water Affordability and Clean Water Act Implementation

  EPA News Release: EPA Proposes Guidance to Support Water Affordability and Clean Water Act Implementation

  • Release Date: February 16, 2022

• EPA awards $5.6 million in grants to reduce diesel pollution

  Diesel pollution reduction projects in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska get a big boost

  EPA News Release: EPA awards $5.6 million in grants to reduce diesel pollution

  • Release Date: November 21, 2019

• EPA awards environmental justice grants to communities and tribes in Alaska, Oregon and Washington

  Funding aims to empower underserved communities working on solutions to local environmental and public health issues

  EPA News Release: EPA awards environmental justice grants to communities and tribes in Alaska, Oregon and Washington

  • Release Date: November 5, 2019

• EPA Week in Review

  EPA News Release: EPA Week in Review

  • Release Date: November 1, 2019

• EPA announces $27.5 million in funding for Puget Sound

  National Estuary Program provides funds for state, local, tribal, and federal projects.

  EPA News Release: EPA announces $27.5 million in funding for Puget Sound

  • Release Date: October 31, 2019

• EPA offers first-ever grants to reduce toxics in Columbia River

  EPA News Release: EPA offers first-ever grants to reduce toxics in Columbia River

  • Release Date: October 31, 2019

• USDA, EPA, and FDA announce partnership with the Food Waste Reduction Alliance

  EPA News Release: USDA, EPA, and FDA announce partnership with the Food Waste Reduction Alliance

  • Release Date: October 30, 2019

• EPA selects Zender Environmental Health and Research Group and the Alaska Forum, Inc. for $400,000 in Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training Grants

  Agency: Brownfields Job Training Grants Provide Skilled Workers for Alaska Communities

  EPA News Release: EPA selects Zender Environmental Health and Research Group and the Alaska Forum, Inc. for $400,000 in Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training Grants

  • Release Date: October 24, 2019