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EPA offering sustainable growth assistance to communities

Posted Thu, 2012/09/20 - 11:34am by RCAP

WASHINGTON (EPA) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) invited communities on Sept. 19 to apply for technical assistance to foster sustainable growth in their area. Communities that adopt sustainable-growth strategies have been shown to expand economic opportunity and protect people’s health and the environment. EPA is offering assistance through the Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities program, which offers tools that can be applied in rural, suburban, and urban areas, including:

Washington Post: Beverage companies, fearing lack of water will hurt business, invest millions in conservation

Posted Fri, 2012/08/17 - 4:36pm by RCAP

This Aug. 8 article begins:

"WEST COLUMBIA, Texas — Fifty miles outside the nation’s fourth-largest city is a massive field of waist-high grass, buzzing bees and palm-size butterflies, just waiting to be ripped up by an entrepreneur.

"Rather than develop this pristine remnant of coastal prairie, vast enough to house more than 300 football fields, the Dr Pepper Snapple Group is investing hundreds of thousands of dollars to ensure it remains untouched...

Office of Water’s acting Assistant Administrator blogs on clean water infrastructure investment

Posted Tue, 2011/11/01 - 8:57am by RCAP

Acting Assistant Administrator for EPA’s Office of Water, Nancy Stoner, recently posted a blog on her trip to an upgraded Minneapolis, Minn., drinking water treatment plant funded through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act.  In the blog, Acting Assistant Administrator Stoner shares her experience visiting the plant and discusses the potential for benefits in cost and energy savings, as well as job growth.

Read the blog