Pollution Prevention and Resource Efficiency
- At schools, libraries, municipal buildings, hospitals, etc.:
- Conduct an energy audit.
- Purchase and install solar panels.
- Purchase and install daylighting systems.
- Sponsor a pollution prevention workshop for local businesses.
- At facilities that may be subject to a SEP agreement:
- Utilize less-dangerous chemicals in the manufacturing process.
- Pave parking lots to control fugitive dust emissions.
- Pave roadways to control fugitive dust emissions.
Pollution Reduction
- At facilities that may be subject to a SEP agreement, utilize better treatment and control technologies that go beyond current requirements to reduce the amount of pollution released.
- Sponsor a community woodstove replacement program.
- Purchase emission reduction equipment for local diesel delivery trucks, garbage haulers, school buses.
Green Schools
- Purchase and install pollution control devices and/or cleaner fuels for local school buses.
- Assist a school in recycling outdated laboratory chemicals.
Environmental Restoration and Protection
Emergency Planning and Preparedness
- Provide funds for hazardous materials training and backup coverage for local fire departments and other special response teams.
- Purchase monitoring equipment
Technical Assistance and Outreach
- Develop an environmental program that provides compliance assistance and energy efficiency training to local small businesses.
- Sponsor an environmental management system workshop for businesses.
- Fund environmental compliance audits for local institutions.
- Support the demonstration of an emerging environmental technology at a local facility.
- Sponsor a retired engineer or college graduate student to work on an environmental project at a local school or hospital.
Environmental Education and Public Awareness
- Provide for environmental education materials and/or training for K-12 teachers in the region.
- Purchase media campaign to educate community about local air quality issues.
- Sponsor a program that recognizes outstanding local environmental projects.
- Fund school field trips to local recycling businesses, landfills, water treatment plants, or waste water treatment plants.
- Build an outdoor environmental learning project.
- Sponsor participation at an ecology/environment workshop or camp.