[CPEO-BIF] "EPA Announces More Than $3 Million in Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training Grants ..."

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

News Release
U.S. EPA Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization
June 13, 2013

EPA Announces More Than $3 Million in Environmental Workforce  
Development and Job Training Grants to Help Facilitate Environmental  
Stewardship and Cleanup Across the Country



WASHINGTON -Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is  
announcing the selection of 16 grantees for a total award of $3.2  
million through the agency's Environmental Workforce Development and  
Job Training (EWDJT) Program. The grants support local work to  
recruit, train, and place unemployed individuals in jobs that address  
environmental challenges in their communities. By providing Americans  
in economically disadvantaged communities with environmental job  
training, EWDJT grants promote environmental justice by equipping  
trainees with environmental health and safety certifications while  
creating a locally skilled workforce that advances local economies.  
Rather than filling jobs with contractors from distant cities, EWDJT  
grants provide employment opportunities for local residents to  
participate in the revitalization of their communities.

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For the entire release, see
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/ 
d0cf6618525a9efb85257359003fb69d/53102148c9883a0385257b89005a1426! 
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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