US EPA funding for research

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EPA Awards $17M To Support Research On The Impacts Of Climate Change
February 18, 2010

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is awarding nearly $17M in Science to Achieve Results (STAR) grants to universities across the country to study the consequences of climate change on the air we breathe and the water we drink.


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EPA Unveils Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Action Plan
February 22, 2010
Washington — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson has released an action plan to guide the Obama Administration's historic efforts to restore the Great Lakes. The action plan, which the administrator unveiled at a Sunday meeting with governors from the Great Lakes states, lays out the most urgent threats facing the Great Lakes and sets out goals, objectives and key actions over the next five years to help restore the lakes.