EPA

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today it is providing $200,000 to the City of Camden Redevelopment Agency in Camden, New Jersey to create a plan for revitalizing the Mt. Ephraim Choice Neighborhood. This funding is part of EPA’s Brownfields Area-Wide Planning program, which helps communities develop specific strategies that integrate the cleanup and reuse of brownfields sites in larger, coordinated efforts to revitalize neighborhoods.

WASHINGTON - December 22, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- Across the country this holiday season, families and friends will gather around fires in woodstoves or fireplaces. But how you build that fire – and what you burn – can have a significant impact on air quality and health, both inside your home and out

ATLANTA - December 15, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy is visiting Durham, N.C. today for the agency’s Energy Efficiency Action Week and touring a new Energy Star-certified Habitat for Humanity home, in the North East Central neighborhood, that includes energy-efficient features that will save homeowners money on their utility bills. Administrator McCarthy will meet with the new homeowner and be joined by Congressman G. K. Butterfield, Durham Mayor Bill Bell, Habitat for Humanity International Vice President for the U.S. and Canada Sue Henderson, and representatives from Advanced Energy, Southern Energy Management and Habitat for Humanity Durha

PHILADELPHIA - December 4, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- If this winter is anything like last year’s, brace yourself for some high heating bills again. One way to lessen the squeeze on your wallet is by taking steps to make your home more energy efficient. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR program offers energy and money-saving changes people can begin to make today

WASHINGTON, D.C. - November 17, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today the first existing multifamily housing properties to earn the new ENERGY STAR multifamily certification for superior energy performance. EPA recognized 17 apartment and condo buildings across the country for leading the industry in reducing energy use, increasing affordability, protecting public health, and combating climate change

ATLANTA - September 18, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a competitive cooperative agreement with the Greensboro Housing Coalition (GHC) to reduce housing-related asthma hospitalizations in low-income, minority neighborhoods in Greensboro, North Carolina resulting from exposure to toxic chemicals. The agreement is one of 12 EPA has reached with community-based organizations nationwide, totaling about $1.4 million in funding, under this initiative.

BOSTON - August 19, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- In two separate grants, EPA is awarding $120,000 to two organizations working to clean up the Mystic River Watershed, just outside Boston, Mass. The two Mystic River Watershed grants are part of $2.1 million EPA awarded nationally to 37 organizations in 17 states and Puerto Rico to help restore urban waters, improve water quality, and support community revitalization and other local priorities.

EASTON, Md. - July 19, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, EPA Regional Administrator Shawn M. Garvin joined Governor Martin O’Malley and former Governor Harry Hughes for a ground-breaking at the site of what will become the new Eastern Shore Conservation Center in Easton’s historic district. The redevelopment project, supported by state, federal and local funds, will transform the former McCord Laundry Building and several vacant 1850s row houses along 114-130 S. Washington Street into a thriving campus of offices, residences and outdoor public venue.

Lenexa, Kan., - July 2, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- EPA Region 7 has reached an administrative consent agreement with a Patton, Mo., property owner to resolve Clean Water Act violations involving unpermitted discharges of pollutants into two tributaries of Baltimore Creek.

DALLAS - June 24, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recognized the City of Austin for receiving $400,000 in grants to assess up to 20 blighted properties and fuel redevelopment and revitalization. These properties, called brownfield sites, are abandoned or under-utilized properties where reusing the land potentially has been complicated by previous use of hazardous chemicals, pollutants or contaminants.

San Juan, P.R. - May 29, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is providing grants totaling $388,000 to Corporacion Del Proyecto ENLACE del Cano Martin Pena in San Juan, Puerto Rico to assess abandoned and contaminated properties. The funding was awarded through the EPA’s Brownfields Program, which helps communities assess, clean up, redevelop and reuse contaminated properties. Brownfields are properties with moderate contamination which can threaten environmental quality and public health and can interfere with redevelopment.

Lenexa, Kan., - May 13, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- EPA is providing $100,000 applied research funding for the City of Omaha, Neb., to establish a water monitoring network around the installation of green infrastructure systems.

DALLAS - May 2, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- This week the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the Albuquerque flood control authority is one of 14 recipients nationwide of part of $860,000 to expand the use of green infrastructure to reduce water pollution and boost resilience to the impacts of climate change. The funding is in support of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, which directs federal agencies to identify climate-resilient investments such as agency grants and technical assistance for communities across the country.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - April 22, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced the four winners of its second annual Campus RainWorks Challenge, a design challenge created to engage college and university students in reinventing our water infrastructure and developing innovative green infrastructure systems to reduce stormwater pollution and build resilience to climate change.

WASHINGTON - April 18, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lowe’s Home Centers, one of the nation’s largest home improvement retailers, has agreed to implement a comprehensive, corporate-wide compliance program at its over 1,700 stores nationwide to ensure that the contractors it hires to perform work minimize lead dust from home renovation activities, as required by the federal Lead Renovation, Repair, and Painting (RRP) Rule, the Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today. The company will also pay a $500,000 civil penalty, which is the largest ever for violations of the RRP Rule

WASHINGTON, D.C. - April 18, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that an elementary school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has won the annual Energy Star National Building Competition: Battle of the Buildings. Teams from more than 3,000 buildings across the country spent the past year competing to obtain the greatest reduction in energy use. Claiborne Elementary School won by cutting its energy use nearly in half.

ATLANTA - April 18, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- South Greene High School and DeBusk Elementary School in Greeneville, Tenn. were both recognized by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as top finishers in the annual Energy Star National Building Competition: Battle of the Buildings. The schools were recognized for reducing their energy use by over 29 percent. Teams from more than 3,000 buildings across the country spent the past year competing to obtain the greatest reduction in energy use.

New York, N.Y. - March 24, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced the award of a $500,000 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant to the City of Buffalo to fund green infrastructure projects to improve water quality in Lake Erie. Cameron Davis, Senior Advisor to the EPA Administrator for the Great Lakes, was joined today by Congressmember Brian Higgins and Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown at the offices of the Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper to announce the projects.

PHILADELPHIA - March 21, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that Thermo-Twin Industries, Inc. has agreed to implement lead-safe precautions when renovating pre-1978 dwellings. The company, located at 1155 Allegheny Ave., Oakmont, Pa., will also pay a $25,690 civil penalty to settle alleged violations

DULUTH - February 21, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced the award of a $250,000 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant to the City of Duluth to fund green infrastructure projects to improve water quality in the Lake Superior Basin. Duluth is the first of 16 cities to receive funding in the initial round of EPA’s new Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Shoreline Cities grant program