Federal Grants Allow for a More Beautiful America
$2.3 million has just been given to 12 communities in 10 states to help preserve the environment. This giant sum of money is going towards educating and initiating the clean-up of polluted and run-down land. It will be used to train people for environmental jobs, which can earn up to $13.26 an hour. These jobs in turn will help to educate others on turning around the environment to make it more liveable.
“The grants will teach environmental assessment and cleanup job skills to individuals living in low income areas near brownfields sites in Ariz., Ark., Calif., Conn., Ill., Md., Ohio, Ore., Va., and Wis. “
Due credit is given to the Bush administration on their concern for the well being of “America the Beautiful.” The grants will teach environmental assessment and cleanup job skills to individuals living in low income areas near brownfields sites in Ariz., Ark., Calif., Conn., Ill., Md., Ohio, Ore., Va., and Wis.
I wrote this article with hopes to complement Motrya’s article about the number of people coming together to help clean up the environment. It made me really glad to see these giant numbers of helpers that the United States is receiving amidst all of our current environmental problems.
Source for Article: http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/68b5f2d54f3eefd28525701500517fbf/3c2c0c364f5ff62f852572250067ce69!OpenDocument
mrmc said,
December 27, 2006 at 8:56 pm
2.3 million dollars does seem like a lot of money. But many superfund site cleanup costs will EACH be 100s of times more than this.
If this is to the Bush administration credit, the loss of superfund taxes on the biggest polluters must be a Bush administration debit.
The Bush administration is seriously “in the red” on this issue.
Also: you should define “brownfield” and give some examples. There are some serious brownfields not too far from your house!