The Hitchcock Center Receives Funding from the EPA; Collaboration with PHIWM and other partners
November 9, 2023
The Hitchcock Center for the Environment has been selected to receive $500,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for expanding and deepening community-based air pollution monitoring, training and education in the Connecticut River Valley region by adding rural communities to the urban partners already engaged in the Healthy Air Network, incorporating extreme heat as a related climate risk, and supporting youth engagement and action...
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- Daily Hampshire Gazette, EPA grants to enhance air pollution monitoring in region, 11/10/23
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