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The EPA chose 186 projects led by community groups and local governments and counts several waste and recycling initiatives among its recipients.

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EPA administrator Michael Regan has named environmental justice an EPA priority, echoing the Biden administration’s calls to fund more environmental justice projects. The EPA recently awarded $128 million in grant funding for such projects. Kevin Dietsch via Getty Images


By Megan Quinn, Senior Reporter, Waste Dive

  • The U.S. EPA has announced about $128 million in funding for 186 different environmental justice projects, including some addressing waste diversion, illegal dumping prevention, and community recycling efforts.
  • Community-based organizations received grants between $150,000 and $500,000 under the Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem Solving program. Local governments received up to $1 million as part of the Government-to-Government funding program.
  • Grants will fund projects such as recycling dropoff events in Nashville, Tennessee; anti-dumping initiatives in Memphis, Tennessee, and in New Mexico; an SB 1383-related school food waste diversion education program in California; public permitting outreach efforts in New Jersey and other initiatives, according to a project summary. 

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