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• EPA Actions Protect Families and Children from Lead Exposure in New York and New Jersey

  EPA News Release: EPA Actions Protect Families and Children from Lead Exposure in New York and New Jersey

  • Release Date: October 24, 2024

• EPA: Beware of lead dangers at home

  Lead-based paint still poses risks to kids – rules and tips help reduce risk

  EPA News Release: EPA: Beware of lead dangers at home

  • Release Date: October 27, 2020

• EPA $156 Million Grant to Provide Solar Power, Lower Energy Costs and Advance Environmental Justice Across New Jersey

  EPA News Release: EPA $156 Million Grant to Provide Solar Power, Lower Energy Costs and Advance Environmental Justice Across New Jersey

  • Release Date: September 5, 2024

• EPA Water Permits for Bulk Petroleum Storage Facilities Will Protect Chelsea Creek and Local Communities

  Permits include provisions to address changing climate impacts and community concerns

  EPA News Release: EPA Water Permits for Bulk Petroleum Storage Facilities Will Protect Chelsea Creek and Local Communities

  • Release Date: October 3, 2022

• EPA Provides $200,000 Grant to Support Toledo in Addressing Lead in Drinking Water

  EPA News Release: EPA Provides $200,000 Grant to Support Toledo in Addressing Lead in Drinking Water

  • Release Date: November 5, 2020

• EPA Administrator Regan Announces Initial Actions to Protect Communities Following Puerto Rico Journey to Justice Tour

  Actions reflect Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to building a better America and addressing environmental and health challenges in communities that are underserved and overburdened by pollution

  EPA News Release: EPA Administrator Regan Announces Initial Actions to Protect Communities Following Puerto Rico Journey to Justice Tour

  • Release Date: November 4, 2022

• EPA penalizes Shell for Anacortes refinery release

  Company pays $191,000 penalty for 2015 event that sickened locals

  EPA News Release: EPA penalizes Shell for Anacortes refinery release

  • Release Date: February 10, 2021

• Community Air Pollution Monitoring Projects in Washington to Receive Over $800,000 in EPA Funding

  $53 million for 132 local projects nationwide is EPA’s largest ever investment in community air monitoring

  EPA News Release: Community Air Pollution Monitoring Projects in Washington to Receive Over $800,000 in EPA Funding

  • Release Date: November 3, 2022

• EPA Releases First-ever Agency-Wide Strategy to Reduce Lead Exposures and Disparities in U.S. Communities

  Strategy to reduce impacts of lead-exposure on high-risk communities, builds on historic investments from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

  EPA News Release: EPA Releases First-ever Agency-Wide Strategy to Reduce Lead Exposures and Disparities in U.S. Communities

  • Release Date: October 27, 2022

• EPA Announces $14.1 Million to Fund 133 Environmental Justice Grants

  New York Communities will Benefit

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces $14.1 Million to Fund 133 Environmental Justice Grants

  • Release Date: December 15, 2021

• EPA Launches Environmental Justice Training for States

  EPA News Release: La EPA prohíbe las ventas a consumidores de los removedores de pintura con cloruro de metileno, protegiendo al público

  • Release Date: March 15, 2019

• Statement by Regional Administrator Martha Guzman on the Drinking Water Emergency at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam and the Plan for EPA Inspections 

  EPA News Release: Statement by Regional Administrator Martha Guzman on the Drinking Water Emergency at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam and the Plan for EPA Inspections 

  • Release Date: February 4, 2022

• EPA Announces $1.35M in Research Grant Funding to Iowa State University

  Researchers will investigate the impacts of water infrastructure stressors on Alaska Native Communities

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces $1.35M in Research Grant Funding to Iowa State University

  • Release Date: February 27, 2023

• EPA New England Announces Lead Inspection Sweep in Overburdened Connecticut Counties to Help Prevent Childhood Lead Poisoning

  EPA News Release: EPA New England Announces Lead Inspection Sweep in Overburdened Connecticut Counties to Help Prevent Childhood Lead Poisoning

  • Release Date: May 25, 2022

• EPA Announces $1.3 Million to Fund 13 Environmental Justice Grants in New England

  Projects in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island, and Vermont

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces $1.3 Million to Fund 13 Environmental Justice Grants in New England

  • Release Date: December 16, 2021