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• EPA and CalEPA Launch Multi-Agency Collaborative to Address Environmental Impacts from Metal Recycling in West Oakland

  Effort seeks to improve health and safety of community historically burdened by harmful pollution.

  EPA News Release: EPA and CalEPA Launch Multi-Agency Collaborative to Address Environmental Impacts from Metal Recycling in West Oakland

  • Release Date: January 17, 2025

• Biden-Harris Administration Announces Over $100 Million in Seven California Environmental Justice Community Change Grants

  EPA announces initial selections for the $2 billion national Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grant program, the largest single environmental justice investment in history, delivered by the Biden-Harris Investing in America agenda

  EPA News Release: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Over $100 Million in Seven California Environmental Justice Community Change Grants

  • Release Date: July 25, 2024

• Biden-Harris Administration Announces Nearly $500 Million for Effort to Cut Transportation- and Goods Movement-Related Climate Pollution in Southern California

  Funded by Biden-Harris Administration’s Investing in America Agenda, EPA announces Southern California project to decarbonize transportation and goods movement for Climate Pollution Reduction Grant

  EPA News Release: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Nearly $500 Million for Effort to Cut Transportation- and Goods Movement-Related Climate Pollution in Southern California

  • Release Date: July 22, 2024

• EPA hosts “roadshow” in San Bernadino to help communities access historic Investing in America funding

  EPA’s Community, Equity & Resiliency Initiative stops in California to support residents’ ability to obtain unprecedented Inflation Reduction Act resources

  EPA News Release: EPA hosts “roadshow” in San Bernadino to help communities access historic Investing in America funding

  • Release Date: February 15, 2024

• Biden-Harris Administration expands EPA program to bring wastewater sanitation services to 150 more underserved communities across Rural America, including the San Carlos Apache Tribe in Arizona

  EPA News Release: Biden-Harris Administration expands EPA program to bring wastewater sanitation services to 150 more underserved communities across Rural America, including the San Carlos Apache Tribe in Arizona

  • Release Date: February 13, 2024

• Biden-Harris Administration Selects California-Based Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs, Inc. to Receive $50 Million to Fund Environmental Justice Projects

  As part of the Investing in America agenda, Grantmakers 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 California-Based Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs, Inc. to Receive $50 Million to Fund Environmental Justice Projects

  • Release Date: December 20, 2023

• EPA Announces Five California 2023 Safer Choice Partner of the Year Award Winners

  Award winners developed safer products, advanced environmental justice, and reduced plastic pollution

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces Five California 2023 Safer Choice Partner of the Year Award Winners

  • Release Date: October 6, 2023

• University of Arizona, San Diego State Unveiled as Centers to Help Communities Access Historic Environmental Justice Investments

  Biden-Harris Administration Announces $177 Million for 17 EPA Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Centers Nationwide

  EPA News Release: University of Arizona, San Diego State Unveiled as Centers to Help Communities Access Historic Environmental Justice Investments

  • Release Date: April 13, 2023

• EPA Awards California $609 Million in Historic Federal Funding to Improve Water Quality

  EPA News Release: EPA Awards California $609 Million in Historic Federal Funding to Improve Water Quality

  • Release Date: November 2, 2022

• Biden-Harris Administration Announces Close to $95 Million from EPA’s Clean School Bus Program for School Districts in American Samoa, Arizona, California, Hawaii, and Nevada

  Historic investment from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law headed to all 50 states in effort to transform America’s school bus fleet

  EPA News Release: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Close to $95 Million from EPA’s Clean School Bus Program for School Districts in American Samoa, Arizona, California, Hawaii, and Nevada

  • Release Date: October 26, 2022

• EPA, Navy, State of California, and City of Irvine celebrate facility reuse award winner Marine Corps Air Station El Toro

  EPA News Release: EPA, Navy, State of California, and City of Irvine celebrate facility reuse award winner Marine Corps Air Station El Toro

  • Release Date: October 12, 2022

• EPA Awards $2 Million to UC Berkeley for Research to Advance Water Management and Security

  EPA News Release: EPA Awards $2 Million to UC Berkeley for Research to Advance Water Management and Security

  • Release Date: September 9, 2022

• EPA Announces $13.5 Million for the San Francisco Bay, Morro Bay, and Santa Monica Bay National Estuary Programs from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

  EPA releases guidance on how the agency will administer the program

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces $13.5 Million for the San Francisco Bay, Morro Bay, and Santa Monica Bay National Estuary Programs from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

  • Release Date: August 1, 2022

• EPA announces unprecedented $29 million for San Francisco Bay watershed restoration grants

  EPA News Release: EPA announces unprecedented $29 million for San Francisco Bay watershed restoration grants

  • Release Date: July 20, 2022

• EPA Awards over $1 million to Advance Environmental Justice in California

  EPA News Release: EPA Awards over $1 million to Advance Environmental Justice in California

  • Release Date: June 29, 2022