EPA awarded the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute at the Rochester Institute of Technology a $69,000 grant to promote wet cleaning in dry cleaners throughout the state.
With the help of $180,000 EPA grant, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) will train college students to work as interns in pharmaceutical making facilities conducting pollution prevention assessments of their operations.
NYSDEC will also get $90,000 grant to reduce hazardous chemicals being used, stored and generated by New York State high school laboratories by providing assistance with chemical inventories, the development of chemical hygiene plans and the distribution of green chemistry guides.
Rowan University will use a $106,194 EPA grant to assist the pharmaceutical industry in implementing source reduction, pollution prevention, and green engineering design through an engineering clinic program.
With the assistance of a $50,000 grant, the Rutgers University Center for Advanced Energy Systems will develop a smart electrical metering system on their Busch and Livingston campuses in Piscataway, New Jersey.
