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• EPA y Estado de Colorado solicitan los aportes de la comunidad sobre el plan de trabajo para impulsar las metas de justicia ambiental

  EPA News Release: EPA y Estado de Colorado solicitan los aportes de la comunidad sobre el plan de trabajo para impulsar las metas de justicia ambiental

  • Release Date: September 23, 2022

• EPA and Colorado seek community input on Workplan to advance environmental justice goals 

  EPA News Release: EPA and Colorado seek community input on Workplan to advance environmental justice goals 

  • Release Date: September 23, 2022

• EPA awards $200,000 to San Luis Valley Local Foods Coalition for food waste project

  High-efficiency anaerobic digestion system in Mosca, Colorado will demonstrate innovative food and organic waste processing to help tackle climate crisis

  EPA News Release: EPA awards $200,000 to San Luis Valley Local Foods Coalition for food waste project

  • Release Date: July 6, 2022

• EPA Announces $1.13 Million in Regional Source Reduction Assistance Grant Opportunities

  Priorities include reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, environmental justice

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces $1.13 Million in Regional Source Reduction Assistance Grant Opportunities

  • Release Date: May 27, 2022

• EPA celebrates future and former environmental cleanup and redevelopment projects in Denver

  Regional Administrator KC Becker joined by Congresswoman DeGette and other partners to highlight new $500,000 grant funding to City and County of Denver

  EPA News Release: EPA celebrates future and former environmental cleanup and redevelopment projects in Denver

  • Release Date: May 26, 2022

• EPA and Colorado announce enforcement partnership to advance environmental justice goals

  EPA and CDPHE to meet with communities to get input and develop implementation plan

  EPA News Release: EPA and Colorado announce enforcement partnership to advance environmental justice goals

  • Release Date: March 9, 2022

• EPA Announces Public Listening Sessions on the Draft Strategy to Reduce Lead Exposures and Disparities in U.S. Communities

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces Public Listening Sessions on the Draft Strategy to Reduce Lead Exposures and Disparities in U.S. Communities

  • Release Date: January 27, 2022

• EPA awards $40,000 in funding to Denver, Colorado and Park City, Utah projects to reduce source pollution

  Projects aim to reduce sources of food waste and waste from single-use to-go containers

  EPA News Release: EPA awards $40,000 in funding to Denver, Colorado and Park City, Utah projects to reduce source pollution

  • Release Date: November 15, 2021

• EPA announces $200,000 to City of Fort Collins, Colorado to support Healthy Homes program

  Funding part of $50 million for Environmental Justice initiatives under the American Rescue Plan

  EPA News Release: EPA announces $200,000 to City of Fort Collins, Colorado to support Healthy Homes program

  • Release Date: July 13, 2021

• EPA selects Groundwork Denver to receive $178,000 Brownfields job training grant to build a skilled environmental workforce in Sheridan, Colorado

  Groundwork Denver one of 18 organizations selected nationwide to support environmental job training in economically distressed communities

  EPA News Release: EPA selects Groundwork Denver to receive $178,000 Brownfields job training grant to build a skilled environmental workforce in Sheridan, Colorado

  • Release Date: March 15, 2021

• EPA announces grant funding to Bessemer Historical Society, Inc. (dba Steelworks Center of the West) to develop an urban agriculture project in Pueblo, Colorado

  Project will improve food access and long-term resiliency in neighborhoods near the Colorado Smelter Superfund site

  EPA News Release: EPA announces grant funding to Bessemer Historical Society, Inc. (dba Steelworks Center of the West) to develop an urban agriculture project in Pueblo, Colorado

  • Release Date: March 8, 2021

• EPA announces grant funding to Focus Points Family Resource Center to develop an urban agriculture training program in Northeast Denver

  EPA News Release: EPA announces grant funding to Focus Points Family Resource Center to develop an urban agriculture training program in Northeast Denver

  • Release Date: March 8, 2021

• Boulder County among 11 selectees nationwide receiving grant funding to support innovative approaches to source reduction

  EPA News Release: Boulder County among 11 selectees nationwide receiving grant funding to support innovative approaches to source reduction

  • Release Date: November 5, 2020

• Sprouts Farmers Markets in Aurora and Englewood, CO, earn regional award for making significant progress in reducing food waste in America

  Sprouts among EPA Food Recovery Challenge participants recognized for outstanding achievement

  EPA News Release: Sprouts Farmers Markets in Aurora and Englewood, CO, earn regional award for making significant progress in reducing food waste in America

  • Release Date: April 23, 2020

• Colorado organizations receive EPA Environmental Justice Small Grants

  EPA News Release: Colorado organizations receive EPA Environmental Justice Small Grants

  • Release Date: November 5, 2019