Environment and Energy

Washington, June 11 - In an effort to make the application process easier for local governments applying for funding through the new Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant program, the Environmental Protection Agency has just released some model text that can be incorporated directly into the EECBG application.

Washington, Aug. 25 – The Environmental Protection Agency, in anticipation of the upcoming Oct. 10 reporting deadline for recipients of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds, has issued supplementary guidance concerning situations in which a recipient uses a statistical methodology to support job estimate reporting. In question and answer format, EPA addresses the top five questions grantees have asked in regard to the use of statistical methods in estimating job impacts of the Recovery Act.

Washington, May 28 — Months after passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA; Pub. L. 111-5), the Department of Labor is finally releasing the first details of one of the law’s most prominent components: new grant programs designed to train American workers for careers in the renewable energy and energy efficiency industries.

Washington, June 24 – The Employment and Training Administration announced today that it has opened the application process for five Recovery Act grant opportunities totaling $495 million. Below is a brief description of each grant opportunity ETA announced, along with a link to the original notice of funding availability from today’s Federal Register. The opportunities are listed in order of closing date.

The economic stimulus bill recently signed into law by President Obama includes hundreds of millions of dollars in grant and loan funding for the Department of Agriculture's Rural Development water and wastewater infrastructure programs. Download Thompson Publishing Group's exclusive and detailed explanations of how these programs work and what they fund.