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Biden-Harris Administration Announces 14 Organizations to Receive Nearly $7
Million to Recruit and Train Workers for Community Revitalization and Cleanup
Projects as Part of Investing in America Agenda
WASHINGTON (Dec. 8, 2023) – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) announced the selection of 14 organizations to receive approximately $7
million in grants for environmental job training programs across the country,
as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda. The grants through
EPA’s Brownfields Job Training Program will help recruit, train, and place
workers for community revitalization and cleanup projects at brownfield sites
across the country. This second wave of funding will build on the more than
$14 million in Brownfields Job Training Grants the agency funded last year. 
“President Biden’s Investing in America agenda is having a powerful,
real-world impact on the ground, creating good-paying jobs and revitalizing
communities,” said EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan. “The President’s
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law has supercharged our Brownfields program,
enabling EPA to invest in the next generation of environmental workers to take
on the much-needed work of cleaning up legacy pollution in communities across
America.”
These grants, of up to $500,000 each, will provide funding to organizations
that are working to create a skilled workforce in communities where
assessment, cleanup, and preparation of brownfield sites for reuse activities
are taking place. Awardees include collaborative partnerships of local
workforce development boards, community colleges, labor unions, local
governments, and more.  
Individuals completing a job training program funded by EPA often overcome a
variety of barriers to employment and many are from historically underserved
neighborhoods or reside in the areas that are affected by environmental
justice issues. Many awardees will offer supportive services to participants,
like childcare support, to reduce barriers to participation and retention in
the program. 
High-quality job training and workforce development are an important part of
the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to advance economic
opportunities and address environmental justice issues in underserved
communities. All of the FY24 Brownfields Job Training Program applications
selected have proposed to work in areas that include disadvantaged communities
as defined by the Climate & Economic Justice Screening Tool, delivering on
President Biden’s Justice40 Initiative which aims to deliver at least 40% of
the benefits of certain government investments to underserved and overburdened
communities.  
Under the Brownfields Job Training Program, individuals typically graduate
with a variety of certifications that improve their marketability and help
ensure that employment opportunities are not just temporary contractual work,
but long-term and high-quality environmental careers. This includes
certifications in: 
• Lead and asbestos abatement, 
• Hazardous waste operations and emergency response, 
• Mold remediation, 
• Environmental sampling and analysis, and 
• Other environmental health and safety training 
Today’s selected grant recipients are: 
• Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe, NM
• *Cornerstones of Care, Kansas City, MO
• The Research Foundation of CUNY obo the City College of New York, Harlem,
• Great Lakes Community Conservation Corps, Racine, WI
• Kern County Builders Exchange, Kern, CA 
• Redevelopment Authority of the County of Cumberland, PA
• The City of Pittsburg, CA 
• Workforce Development Board of Herkimer, Madison, and Oneida Counties,
Utica, NY 
• The City of Texarkana, TX 
• *Groundwork Ohio River Valley, Cincinnati, OH 
• *Honeybee Strategies, East Baton Rouge, LA
• *Young Adult Development in Action, Inc., dba YouthBuild Louisville,
Louisville, KY 
• *North Side Industrial Development Company, Pittsburgh, PA 
• *E3 Solutions, Inc., Selma, AL
*First-time Brownfields Job Training Program grant recipients.
For more information on the selected Brownfields Job Training Grant
recipients, including past Grant recipients, please visit EPA’S Grant
Factsheet Tool. 
Background
President Biden’s leadership and bipartisan congressional action have
delivered the single-largest investment ever made in U.S. brownfields
infrastructure. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law invests more than $1.5
billion through EPA’s highly successful Brownfields Program, which is
helping more communities than ever before begin to address the economic,
social, and environmental challenges caused by the legacy pollution at
brownfield sites. Today’s funding for Brownfields Job Training grants comes
from this historic investment, which is allowing more communities, states, and
Tribes to access larger grants to build and enhance the environmental
curriculum in job training programs to support job creation and community
revitalization at brownfield sites. Ultimately, this investment will help
trained individuals access jobs created through brownfields revitalization
activities within their communities. 
Since 1998, EPA has announced 414 grants totaling over $100.5 million through
Brownfields Job Training Programs. With these grants, more than 21,500
individuals have completed training and over 16,370 individuals have been
placed in careers related to land remediation and environmental health and
safety. The average starting wage for these individuals is over $15 an hour. 
For more information on this, and other types of Brownfields Grants, please
visit EPA’s Brownfields webpage.
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