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Environmental Education Grant Applications Now Being Accepted By DEP
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Applications for the 2011 Environmental Education Grants Program are now available by the Department of Environmental Protection. The deadline for applications is December 17.
The grants of up to $7,500 provide funding to schools, universities, intermediate units, environmental education centers, county conservation districts, incorporated nonprofit organizations and associations and businesses to create or develop projects that support environmental education in the Commonwealth.
Grants will provide environmental education on timely and critically important topics, including the following:
-- Sustainable Energy Sources and Technologies including solar, wind, hydro, microhydro, biomass, geothermal, alternative transportation fuels and energy efficiency and conservation;
-- Carbon Capture and Storage/Climate Change including terrestrial sequestration and other related issues;
-- Air Quality including ground level ozone, transportation and electric generation issues;
-- Watersheds and wetlands focusing on abating abandoned mine drainage, reducing non-point source pollution and enhancing water conservation; and
-- Chesapeake Bay Watershed Education with a focus on nutrient and sediment loads, point and non-point source pollution reduction.
The Environmental Education Grants Program was established by the Environmental Education Act of 1993, which mandates setting aside 5 percent of the pollution fines and penalties collected annually by the Department for environmental education in this Commonwealth.
Applications are available online or by contacting DEP's Environmental Education Grants Program, P.O. Box 2063, Harrisburg, PA 17105-2063 or calling 717-772-1828
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10/4/2010 |
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