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Community Action for a Renewed Environment (CARE) grants
Request for Proposals RFP# EPA-OAR-IO-09-02 - Closing Date:
March 16, 2009
EPA plans to award approximately $3 million in grants.
Margaret F. Millard (millard.margaret@epa.gov)
312-353-1440 is the Region 5 CARE Program Manager.
Seriously... you're not going to use it again - December 2008
EPA is connecting with Chicago area residents in a big way this holiday season by encouraging CTA train and bus riders to recycle their old cell phones.
Cleanup Sites
Meetings & Conferences
- Torch Lake Quincy Smelter Public Hearing, January 15, 2009
- Tittabawassee and Saginaw rivers and Saginaw Bay dioxin contamination Open Meeting, January 15, 2009
- Little Traverse Bay CKD Release Site public meeting, January 29, 2009
Public Comment Opportunities
- Outboard Marine Corporation - through February 4, 2009
- Torch Lake Quincy Smelter, Houghton, MI - January 1-31, 2009
Notices of proposed penalty orders or complaints for penalties
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Publications
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- ABC's of Environmental Education (PDF) (20 pp., 5.9MB) (EPA 905K06001) June 2006
- Transboundary Movement of Municipal Solid Waste Comprehensive Inspection Report (PDF) (37 pages, 362K) June 2006
- Scrap Tire Cleanup Guidebook (PDF) (44 pp., 7MB) (905-B-06-001) May 2006
- Happy Earth Day Activity Book
- Other publications
- Order EPA education materials
Contact Us Online
Region 5 Environmental Hotline: 800-621-8431
8:15am - 4:45pm Central time
(312-886-2395 for callers outside IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, and WI)
Hot Topics
- Great Lakes Beach Sanitary Survey Tool
- EPA orders Scotts to stop selling certain pesticides
- Region 5 Framework for Addressing Climate Change and Clean Energy
- Tittabawassee River / Saginaw River / Saginaw Bay Cleanup
- Where to recycle mercury-containing bulbs
- Illegal dumping prevention
- Midwest Clean Diesel Initiative