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LENEXA, Kan. – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced the availability of $81 million in funding for eligible air agencies to expand and upgrade the nation’s air quality monitoring networks as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda. The investment, made possible by the Inflation Reduction Act, will enhance and extend air monitoring […]

LENEXA, Kan.– The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday released the 2023 update to its Equity Action Plan, as part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s whole-of-government equity agenda. This Equity Action Plan is part of EPA’s efforts to implement the President’s Executive Order on “Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through The Federal Government,”

LENEXA, Kan. – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the expansion of its successful Closing America’s Wastewater Access Gap Community Initiative to 150 additional communities as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda. Originally launched in partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the initiative partners with underserved communities to provide technical assistance on

WASHINGTON – On Monday, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced the 200,000th graduate of the Boots to Business (B2B) program. This milestone re-emphasizes the long-standing importance of military-connected entrepreneurs to the nation’s economy and celebrates 11 years of B2B instructor achievements nationwide and overseas. “SBA’s Boots to Business program is about strengthening our aspiring military entrepreneurs, especially now as

LENEXA, Kan. – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the latest steps to incorporate stakeholder feedback and collaboration with federal partners, ensuring the Agency’s work to protect endangered species from pesticides is practical, flexible, and supports the agricultural community. Assistant Administrator Michal Freedhoff described these steps in a speech to the National Association of

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft attended oral arguments at the United States Supreme Court in the case Donald J. Trump v. Norma Anderson. Ashcroft leads a coalition of 10 other secretaries of state who signed on to the amicus brief Ashcroft filed with the court.   This unprecedented case centers on whether

LENEXA, Kan. – The Biden-Harris Administration on Wednesday finalized a significantly stronger air quality standard that will better protect America’s families, workers, and communities from the dangerous and costly health effects of fine particle pollution, also known as soot. By strengthening the annual health-based national ambient air quality standard for fine particulate matter (PM2.5) from

CLOVER, South Carolina – World Heritage International Student Exchange Program (WH), a Non-Profit, Public Benefit Organization, is seeking local families to host foreign exchange students this coming school year.   World Heritage students come from a variety of countries worldwide: Italy, Denmark, Spain, France, Germany, Ukraine, Japan, Australia, to name just a few. They are between

LENEXA, Kan. – EPA Region 7’s Environmental Justice (EJ) Program invites the public to join a new quarterly Community Stakeholder Meeting that is open to all community members in Region 7, which includes Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and nine tribal nations. EPA will hold the virtual meeting on Thursday, Feb. 22, from 6:30 to 8

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – They have quirky names and are often mistaken for stones, but freshwater mussels are very much alive and perform critical ecological functions in rivers and streams. We at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have drafted a plan to save four imperiled mussels protected under the Endangered Species Act: the rayed bean,