Q: As reported in the AJC, EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson used a news conference on July 12 at Atlanta’s Southface Energy Institute to announce $6.2 million in training grants to organizations nationwide. What are the names of those organizations and locations? The article also mentioned that this is the first grant for an Atlanta group. What is the name of the Atlanta group?
—T. Parker, Hapeville
A: The 22 recipients of the national environmental workforce development and job training grants (up to $300,000 each) are: The Center for Working Families, Atlanta; Zender Environmental Health and Research Group, Anchorage, Alaska; City of South Tucson, Ariz.; City of Richmond, Calif.; The Workplace, Bridgeport, Conn.; Florida State College at Jacksonville; OAI, Chicago; Southeast Neighborhood Development, Indianapolis; Arc of Greater New Orleans; Civic Works, Baltimore; Merrimack Valley Workforce Investment Board, Lawrence, Haverhill and Methuen, Mass.; Saint Paul Port Authority, Minn.; Metropolitan Energy Center, Kansas City and Independence, Mo.; New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Camden, N.J.; Santa Fe Community College, N.M.; The Fortune Society, New York; Sitting Bull College, Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, N.D. and S.D.; Memphis Bioworks Foundation, Tenn.; The Enterprise Center, Chattanooga, Tenn.; City of Texarkana, Texas; Pathways‐VA, Petersburg, Va.; and City of Tacoma, Wash. It was the first grant for Atlanta's Center for Working Families.
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