MEDIA ADVISORY: EPA to highlight IRA funding for environmental justice projects in communities across Kentucky at press event
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (February 16, 2024) — On Wednesday, February 21, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will host a press event promoting environmental justice projects across the Louisville metro area that are funded by the Inflation Reduction Act.
The EPA announced $1,500,500 to fund 2 projects in the Rubbertown and California Neighborhood areas of Louisville, Kentucky that advance environmental justice as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda. The projects, which EPA has selected through its Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem Solving Cooperative Agreement and Environmental Justice Government-to-Government programs, will use the funds to ensure disadvantaged communities that have historically suffered from underinvestment have access to clean air and water and climate resilience solutions in alignment with the Biden-Harris administration’s Justice40 Initiative.
WHO:
EPA Acting Regional Administrator Jeaneanne Gettle
Congressman Morgan McGarvey, District 3
Amanda LeFevre, Deputy Commissioner Kentucky Department of Environmental Protection
Mayor of Louisville Craig Greenberg
WHAT:
Press event to promote environmental justice projects across Louisville funded by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
WHEN AND WHERE:
1:00 PM Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Location: Louisville City Hall Building, 601 W Jefferson Street #19, Louisville, KY 40202
Reporters will have interview opportunities following the event.
*** Interested media must RSVP via email to region4press@epa.gov to confirm your participation by COB Tuesday, February 20, 2024.
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