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• EPA Reminds New Englanders to Use Free Air Quality Alerts for the Summer Smog Season

  Air Quality Awareness Week is May 1–5, 2023

  EPA News Release: EPA Reminds New Englanders to Use Free Air Quality Alerts for the Summer Smog Season

  • Release Date: May 1, 2023

• EPA Announces $1.3 Million to Fund 13 Environmental Justice Grants in New England

  Projects in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island, and Vermont

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces $1.3 Million to Fund 13 Environmental Justice Grants in New England

  • Release Date: December 16, 2021

• EPA Announces 13 Healthy Communities Grants Awarded in New England

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces 13 Healthy Communities Grants Awarded in New England

  • Release Date: November 4, 2021

• Rhode Island Receives $398,000 to Expand Program to Test School Drinking Water for Lead

  EPA News Release: Rhode Island Receives $398,000 to Expand Program to Test School Drinking Water for Lead

  • Release Date: October 28, 2021

• EPA Recognizes Ten Rhode Island Citizens and Organizations with Regional Environmental Award

  EPA News Release: EPA Recognizes Ten Rhode Island Citizens and Organizations with Regional Environmental Award

  • Release Date: September 14, 2021

• EPA Settlement with Trucking Company will Improve Safety Measures at No. Smithfield, R.I. Facility

  EPA News Release: EPA Settlement with Trucking Company will Improve Safety Measures at No. Smithfield, R.I. Facility

  • Release Date: April 20, 2021

• EPA Brownfields Job Training Grant Will Help Rhode Island Communities in Greater Providence Area

  EPA Workforce Grants Transform Lives and Land Across the Country

  EPA News Release: EPA Brownfields Job Training Grant Will Help Rhode Island Communities in Greater Providence Area

  • Release Date: March 11, 2021

• EPA Publishes 2019 Annual Toxics Release Inventory Report and Analysis

  EPA News Release: EPA Publishes 2019 Annual Toxics Release Inventory Report and Analysis

  • Release Date: January 12, 2021

• EPA Invites Rhode Island to Apply for $39+ Million Water Infrastructure Loan

  Brand new loan program helps states finance more water infrastructure projects

  EPA News Release: EPA Invites Rhode Island to Apply for $39+ Million Water Infrastructure Loan

  • Release Date: November 18, 2020

• Major EPA Funding for Rhode Island Water Infrastructure Projects Will Help Protect Health and the Environment

  Funding for lead service line replacement in Providence and to upgrade Narragansett Bay Commission water discharge facility

  EPA News Release: Major EPA Funding for Rhode Island Water Infrastructure Projects Will Help Protect Health and the Environment

  • Release Date: October 27, 2020

• EPA announces 12 Healthy Communities Grants awarded across four New England states as part of Children’s Health Month

  EPA News Release: EPA announces 12 Healthy Communities Grants awarded across four New England states as part of Children’s Health Month

  • Release Date: October 21, 2020

• EPA Awards More than $4.8 million for Clean Diesel Projects in New England

  EPA News Release: EPA Awards More than $4.8 million for Clean Diesel Projects in New England

  • Release Date: October 19, 2020

• New Haven Ecology Project, University of Rhode Island, and Vermont Energy Education Program awarded $300,000 in EPA Education Grants

  EPA News Release: New Haven Ecology Project, University of Rhode Island, and Vermont Energy Education Program awarded $300,000 in EPA Education Grants

  • Release Date: October 16, 2020

• Port of Providence Selected for EPA Community-Scale Air Toxics Monitoring Grant

  EPA News Release: Port of Providence Selected for EPA Community-Scale Air Toxics Monitoring Grant

  • Release Date: September 29, 2020

• EPA Recognizes Two Rhode Islanders with Regional Environmental Award

  EPA News Release: EPA Recognizes Two Rhode Islanders with Regional Environmental Award

  • Release Date: September 15, 2020