Environmental Matters in the Commonwealth of Kentucky

U.S. EPA announced on March 8, 2008 that Kentucky was not among the 10 states sharing more than $2.5 million in job training grants geared toward cleaning up contaminated properties and turning them into productive community assets. Under its Brownfields Initiative, U.S. EPA is awarding grants of up to $200,000 each to non-profit organizations, local governments, a university, and a tribe. The grants will teach environmental assessment and cleanup job skills to individuals living near brownfields sites in Alabama, California, Louisiana, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Washington.