EPA Grants Fund Low Income Projects, Training

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced on July 12 that her agency is giving $6.2 million to train unemployed people in poor neighborhoods in remediation, green building, and pollution reduction jobs.

Mary Silver

7/12/2011|Updated: 10/1/2015

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EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, third from left, stands with students. (Mary Silver/Epoch Times)

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Mary Silver

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Mary Silver writes columns, grows herbs, hikes, and admires the sky. She likes critters, and thinks the best part of being a journalist is learning new stuff all the time. She has a Masters from Emory University, serves on the board of the Georgia chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, and belongs to the Association of Health Care Journalists.