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• President Biden, EPA $1 Billion Investment from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Will Accelerate Cleanup Efforts and Benefit New York

  EPA Projects Work to Be Completed at 22 of 25 Remaining Great Lakes “Areas of Concern” by 2030

  EPA News Release: President Biden, EPA $1 Billion Investment from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Will Accelerate Cleanup Efforts and Benefit New York

  • Release Date: February 17, 2022

• EPA Highlights Historic $106 Million Investment in Water Infrastructure Benefitting Long Island Sound

  EPA’s Long Island Sound Study Program to receive $106M over five years under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

  EPA News Release: EPA Highlights Historic $106 Million Investment in Water Infrastructure Benefitting Long Island Sound

  • Release Date: February 16, 2022

• EPA Recognizes WasteWise Award Winners for Innovations in Waste Reduction

  EPA News Release: EPA Recognizes WasteWise Award Winners for Innovations in Waste Reduction

  • Release Date: February 3, 2022

• EPA’s Food Recovery Challenge Awardees Showcase Ways to Tackle Largest Category of Waste in Landfills

  EPA News Release: EPA’s Food Recovery Challenge Awardees Showcase Ways to Tackle Largest Category of Waste in Landfills

  • Release Date: February 3, 2022

• EPA Announces $3.8 Million in Grants to Train Environmental Workers for Jobs Created by Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding, including Three Grants to New York Organizations

  EPA selects 19 organizations to receive Brownfields Job Training Grants to boost workforce training in underserved, overburdened communities

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces $3.8 Million in Grants to Train Environmental Workers for Jobs Created by Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding, including Three Grants to New York Organizations

  • Release Date: February 2, 2022

• EPA Region 2 Awards Grants to Student Teams in New Jersey and New York for Innovative Technology Projects

  EPA News Release: EPA Region 2 Awards Grants to Student Teams in New Jersey and New York for Innovative Technology Projects

  • Release Date: December 16, 2020

• $1.1 Million in Grants Awarded to Improve the Health of Long Island Sound Sixteen grants awarded to projects in New York

  EPA News Release: $1.1 Million in Grants Awarded to Improve the Health of Long Island Sound Sixteen grants awarded to projects in New York

  • Release Date: December 7, 2020

• EPA Awards Funding to Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs for Farmworker Pesticide Training in New York, New Jersey and Puerto Rico

  EPA News Release: EPA Awards Funding to Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs for Farmworker Pesticide Training in New York, New Jersey and Puerto Rico

  • Release Date: November 19, 2020

• EPA Begins Historic Full-Scale Dredging of Gowanus Canal Superfund Site

  EPA News Release: EPA Begins Historic Full-Scale Dredging of Gowanus Canal Superfund Site

  • Release Date: November 16, 2020

• Nearing Full Implementation, EPA’s Lean Management System Delivers Results

  EPA News Release: Nearing Full Implementation, EPA’s Lean Management System Delivers Results

  • Release Date: November 12, 2020

• EPA Awards Source Reduction Grant to New York State Pollution Prevention Institute at Rochester Institute of Technology

  Nationwide, 11 organizations across nine states will receive grant funding totaling $1.16 million to support pollution prevention.

  EPA News Release: EPA Awards Source Reduction Grant to New York State Pollution Prevention Institute at Rochester Institute of Technology

  • Release Date: November 5, 2020

• U.S. EPA Recognizes Freight Industry Leaders for Environmental Performance New Jersey and New York among the Winners

  EPA News Release: U.S. EPA Recognizes Freight Industry Leaders for Environmental Performance New Jersey and New York among the Winners

  • Release Date: November 5, 2020

• EPA Recognizes WaterSense Conservation Leader in New York

  SUEZ New York Awarded for Promoting WaterSense Labeled Products

  EPA News Release: EPA Recognizes WaterSense Conservation Leader in New York

  • Release Date: October 26, 2020

• EPA Takes Action to Protect Public from Coronavirus Protection Scams

  EPA issued 29 Advisory Letters to companies selling misbranded and unregistered pesticide products and prevented 52 imports of illegal pesticide products in New York, New Jersey and Puerto Rico

  EPA News Release: EPA Takes Action to Protect Public from Coronavirus Protection Scams

  • Release Date: October 15, 2020

• EPA Marks Third Year of Historically High Superfund Site Deletions with Visit to Peter Cooper Superfund Site in Gowanda, New York

  Under the Trump Administration, EPA has deleted 82 sites from the NPL in four years equaling the number of deletions between 2008-2016

  EPA News Release: EPA Marks Third Year of Historically High Superfund Site Deletions with Visit to Peter Cooper Superfund Site in Gowanda, New York

  • Release Date: October 8, 2020