Grants News ADVISORY (Region 2): EPA Awards Brooklyn Organization Grant Funds to Better Understand and Address Air Pollution

 

EPA Awards Brooklyn Organization Grant Funds to

Better Understand and Address Air Pollution

 

Contacts:         Jennifer May (646) 369-0039, may.jennifer@epa.gov

                        Elias Rodriguez (732)672-5520, rodriguez.elias@epa.gov

 

(Brooklyn, N.Y. – Jan. 27, 2011) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Regional Administrator Judith Enck, along with Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez will announce two EPA grants to the Brooklyn non-profit group UPROSE on Friday, January 28, 2011.  The funding will help UPROSE to better understand and address air pollution and other environmental concerns in the Sunset Park, Brooklyn community.  Details of the grant, including the funding levels, will be announced at the press event.

 

 

WHO:              Judith A. Enck, EPA Region 2 Regional Administrator

Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez

UPROSE Executive Director Elizabeth Yeampierre

UPROSE Youth Members

 

WHAT:           Formal remarks, photo opportunities

 

WHEN:           Friday, January 28, 2011 at 10 am

 

            WHERE:         UPROSE

166A 22^nd Street in Brooklyn, NY 11232

1^st Floor Auditorium

*Closest subway station is 25^th Street in Brooklyn.  The R, N and D trains run to this station.                         

 

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