The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will soon announce two new grant opportunities funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which President Biden signed in November 2021. These grants will provide funding for states and Tribes to provide businesses with technical assistance to help them adopt pollution prevention (P2) practices to advance environmental justice in underserved and overburdened communities across the country.\u202fThese new grant opportunities are expected to be posted on Grants.gov<\/a> in the coming weeks, and applicants will have 90 days to apply. EPA is providing notice of these grant opportunities in advance so potential applicants can make the necessary preparations to submit a high-quality application to the Agency. The two grant opportunities are: <\/p>\n\n\n\n Eligible applicants include states, state entities such as universities, U.S. territories and possessions, and federally recognized Tribes and intertribal consortia. Applicants are strongly encouraged to consider partnering with others in the P2 stakeholder community to strengthen their ability to provide P2 technical assistance to businesses and facilitate the development, adoption, and dissemination of P2 solutions. For these grants, selected grantees will not be required to focus their technical assistance on the National Emphasis Areas (NEAs)<\/a> and will not be required to provide matching funds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Prior to applying for an EPA grant, applicants must: <\/p>\n\n\n\n Please note that it may take up to a month to complete registration on these systems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For help with grant-related questions, e-mail p2hub@epa.gov<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n To receive a notification when the grants are available, sign up to receive EPA\u2019s P2 listserv<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n New Pollution Prevention (P2) Grant Opportunities Focused on Environmental Justice are Coming Soon! The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will soon announce two new grant opportunities funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which President Biden signed in November 2021. These grants will provide funding for states and Tribes to provide businesses with technical assistance to … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[27,26],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-external-news-events","tag-epa-2","tag-p2-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/sce3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/sce3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/sce3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/sce3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/sce3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/sce3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023,"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/sce3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/sce3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/sce3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/sce3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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