Tag: environmental protection agency

EPA Celebrates $34M in Grants to Improve Indoor Air Quality in Schools

By Joe Bebon, Editor Nov 11, 2024 Green Building

Updated: Nov 11, 2024

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) celebrated $34 million in Inflation Reduction Act grants awarded to five organizations to help school districts across the country improve indoor air quality (IAQ). EPA Mid-Atlantic Regional Administrator Adam Ortiz recently joined the grantees at Horatio B. Hackett School in Philadelphia to congratulate them on their awards, underscore the importance of IAQ, and highlight previous school efforts. “EPA is proud to […]

EPA Offers $965M to Fund Green School Buses

By Joe Bebon, Editor Oct 3, 2024 Green Building

Updated: Oct 3, 2024

To help save money and be more eco-friendly, many schools have installed solar energy and made other sustainability upgrades, including green transportation. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is offering more funding to help school districts across the country make the switch to alternative fuel bus fleets. The agency has launched a $965 million round of rebates […]

EPA Awards 2024 ‘Safer Choice’ Partners for Cleaning, Other Chemical Products

By Joe Bebon, Editor Sep 30, 2024 Green Building

Updated: Sep 30, 2024

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced 43 Safer Choice Partner of the Year award winners across 20 states and the District of Columbia, recognizing their achievements in the design, manufacture, promotion, selection, and use of cleaners, detergents, and other products with safer chemicals. The Safer Choice program helps consumers and purchasers at facilities find […]

EPA Names Top Green Power Partners of 2024

By Joe Bebon, Editor Sep 20, 2024 Green Building

Updated: Sep 20, 2024

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the Green Power Leadership Award winners for 2024, honoring four top organizations in the agency’s Green Power Partnership program. This year’s winners are tech giant Microsoft Corp., MilliporeSigma, Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, and Signature Aviation. The EPA’s Green Power Partnership is a voluntary program that helps increase clean energy use among U.S. […]

EPA Funds $34M to Improve Indoor Air Quality at Schools

By Joe Bebon, Editor Aug 28, 2024 Green Building

Updated: Aug 28, 2024

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has selected five groups to receive $34 million in grants for projects helping address indoor air pollution in K-12 schools in low-income, disadvantaged, and Tribal communities across the country. This announcement comes after the agency revealed $26 million in funding to protect children from lead in drinking water at schools […]

EPA Orders Ohio Schools to Address Asbestos and Lead Paint Hazards

By Joe Bebon, Editor Jul 9, 2024 Design and Construction

Updated: Jul 9, 2024

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced an agreement with Accel Schools Ohio LLC to address lead paint concerns and asbestos at three of its schools in Ohio: Youngstown Academy of Excellence, Niles Preparatory Academy, and STEAM Academy of Warren. Accel is a public charter school system that operates 77 in-person charter schools, primarily in Ohio, and 15 […]

EPA WaterSense Products Helped Americans Save Over 1 Trillion Gallons in 2023

By Joe Bebon, Editor Jun 14, 2024 Green Building

Updated: Jun 14, 2024

Is money going down the drain at your facilities? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its WaterSense program has made it easier for businesses and consumers to save trillions of gallons of water. In 2023 alone, WaterSense-labeled products helped save 1.2 trillion gallons of water. Since the conception of the WaterSense label, the EPA […]

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EPA Reveals Top Cities for ENERGY STAR-Certified Buildings

By Joe Bebon, Editor May 23, 2024 Energy Management and Lighting

Updated: May 23, 2024

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) revealed its annual “Top Cities” list, spotlighting the cities with the greatest number of ENERGY STAR-certified commercial and multifamily buildings in 2023. Los Angeles leads the pack, with 876 ENERGY STAR-certified buildings. In second place is Washington, D.C., with 631 buildings, followed by New York in third place (390 […]

‘Cicada-geddon’: 7 Ways Facilities Managers Can Prepare for the Bug Invasion

By Corey Sipe, Associate Editor Apr 24, 2024 Energy Management and Lighting

Updated: Apr 24, 2024

The cicadas are coming! The cicadas are coming! Some facilities professionals will indeed experience a “cicada-geddon,” a term coined by John Cooley, a University of Connecticut cicada expert. According to The Associated Press, two broods of cicadas—13-year and 17-year varieties—will be coming together for the first time since 1803, meaning trillions of them will come […]

Top 10 Earth Day Must-Reads for Facilities Managers

By Joe Bebon, Editor Apr 22, 2024 Design and Construction

Updated: Apr 22, 2024

Unless Elon Musk stops messing around with Twitter and gets us to Mars, Earth is our only home for the foreseeable future. That means we’ve got to take good care of the planet and conserve its finite natural resources. It’s also why sustainability is a hot topic all year long and why facilities managers are […]