The EPA provided the New York State Restaurant Association Educational Foundation
an $83,800 grant to expand its
pollution prevention training program for New York City restaurants to
restaurants in Nassau and Westchester County, New York. The restaurant
association will provide group training sessions at restaurants on
pollution prevention techniques such as using water-saving devices,
cleaning products and energy-efficient equipment. It will disseminate
the results through case studies and a green restaurant workbook to
restaurants throughout New York State.

The New Jersey Institute of Technology will use a
$178,060 grant to develop an online toolkit that will provide training
to supermarkets on ways to reduce energy through lighting improvements
and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning controls, and reduce the
release of hazardous materials from cooling system leaks. NJIT will
disseminate the toolkit to supermarket chains throughout New Jersey and
provide training to the supermarket staff through direct outreach and
webinars.

The EPA is providing the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection with an $180,000 grant that will be used to
promote sustainability in New Jersey’s hotel industry by providing
training on ways to increase energy and water efficiency, reducing the
use of hazardous materials and saving money. NJDEP will train hotel
owners and managers on methods to achieve efficiency in their lighting,
space health/cooling, water heating, refrigeration and appliances. 

This
NJDEP project will target small to medium-sized hotels in Cape May and
Atlantic counties, which have the largest concentration of hotels in the
state. NJDEP will provide outreach through four workshops, hotel job
training at Atlantic Cape Community College, as well as direct mailings to
all hotels in New Jersey.

“Pollution prevention is some of the most important
work being done to protect the environment,” said EPA Regional
Administrator Judith A. Enck. “The EPA Pollution Prevention grants help
businesses, colleges and state agencies identify strategies to reduce
the use of toxic materials, save energy, protect human health and save
money. These grants support programs that reduce or eliminate waste at
the source, preventing the need to treat it after it is generated.”

The grants are part of the approximately $4 million
in grants that the EPA awards each year aimed at preventing pollution
across the nation. For more information on the EPA pollution prevention
program, visit http://www.epa.gov/region02/p2/.