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• 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

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announces public “office hours” in Telluride, CO to discuss 2021 Telluride Valley Floor/Boomerang Road Time-Sensitive Removal Action

  EPA News Release: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announces public “office hours” in Telluride, CO to discuss 2021 Telluride Valley Floor/Boomerang Road Time-Sensitive Removal Action

  • Release Date: July 20, 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 to start phase two to remove lead and arsenic-contaminated tailings near Telluride, Colorado

  EPA News Release: EPA to start phase two to remove lead and arsenic-contaminated tailings near Telluride, Colorado

  • Release Date: July 12, 2021

• EPA reaches settlement with landowners in Duchesne County, Utah to restore Duchesne River and floodplain on Uintah and Ouray Reservation

  Karl and David Lamb to restore portions of the Duchesne River and floodplain impacted by unpermitted construction activities

  EPA News Release: EPA reaches settlement with landowners in Duchesne County, Utah to restore Duchesne River and floodplain on Uintah and Ouray Reservation

  • Release Date: June 10, 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

• EPA announces selection of Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to receive $120,000 for environmental emergency planning

  Standing Rock Sioux Tribe one of 18 organizations selected nationwide for Collaborative Problem-Solving Agreements

  EPA News Release: EPA announces selection of Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to receive $120,000 for environmental emergency planning

  • Release Date: October 8, 2020

• K2D, Inc., Colorado Premium Cold Storage resolves chemical risk management violations at Denver facility

  Company corrects Clean Air Act deficiencies to reduce risk of accidental release of anhydrous ammonia

  EPA News Release: K2D, Inc., Colorado Premium Cold Storage resolves chemical risk management violations at Denver facility

  • Release Date: September 15, 2020

• Snowy Mountain Development Corporation receives $300K to advance the cleanup and reuse of properties in communities throughout central Montana

  Award part of $6.9 million in supplemental funding for Brownfields projects across the nation

  EPA News Release: Snowy Mountain Development Corporation receives $300K to advance the cleanup and reuse of properties in communities throughout central Montana

  • Release Date: June 11, 2020

• EPA’s Mountains and Plains Region transfers N-95 masks to Federal Emergency Management Agency

  EPA News Release: EPA’s Mountains and Plains Region transfers N-95 masks to Federal Emergency Management Agency

  • Release Date: April 17, 2020

• Utah Clean Energy Alliance receives EPA Environmental Justice Small Grant

  Project to reduce energy use and improve air quality in Salt Lake area

  EPA News Release: Utah Clean Energy Alliance receives EPA Environmental Justice Small Grant

  • Release Date: November 5, 2019

• Colorado organizations receive EPA Environmental Justice Small Grants

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

  • Release Date: November 5, 2019