EPA gives $200k for Utica brownfields job training
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $200,000 to the Workforce Investment Board of Herkimer, Madison and Oneida Counties in New York for reviving brownfields. The brownfield project reclaims land contaminated by environmental hazards, providing jobs and preserving the environment. This project will train local area workers to clean up sites contaminated with lead, asbestos and other toxic materials.
As part of the plan, student recruits will come from local unemployed adults, low-income individuals who are under-employed, older youths, and ex-offenders. Graduates will be certified to perform much-needed environmentally safe cleanup and redevelopment of abandoned sites including abandoned gas stations, factories, mills and other toxic commercial properties.
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