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Current Projects
Environmental Job Training Grant Awarded to WVU
Offering free courses to earn federally recognized safety and health certificates to residents in West Virginia, the Env Jobs for WV program is an EPA-funded collaborative project between WVU Safety and Health Extension and the Northern Brownfields Assistance Center. It aims to help West Virginians enjoy the economic benefits from regional environmental clean-up efforts such as brownfield site assessments and clean-ups. Certifying local residents encourages environmental firms to hire locally for higher paying environmental jobs. Targeting our young and underemployed workforce for training also helps WV develop its most valuable resource: human capital. Courses to be offered include:
- Hazardous Waste Site Worker: 40 Hrs
- OSHA Construction 10 Hour: 10 Hrs (Asbestos, Lead, Health Hazards)
- OSHA 7600 Disaster Site Worker: 16 Hrs
- First Aid / Adult CPR: 8 Hrs
- Environmental Career Development: 8 Hrs
- Environmental Site Assessment / Underground Storage Tanks / Petroleum
- Contamination: 16 Hrs
- Gas Well Leak Control Training: 8 Hrs
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Redevelopment Success Stories
Wheeling turns old warehouse into prime property!
The city of Wheeling is experiencing additional benefits and growth as a result of a redeveloped brownfield property.
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West Virginia Northern Community College
Another downtown Wheeling property is being renovated as a "world class educational facility".
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Collaborating to confront water contamination in Kelly's Creek
The Kanawha County watershed was an EPA pilot project under the Mine-scarred Lands Initiative.
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From Chemicals to Vehicles
In South Charleston, WV an abandoned chemical plant site was redeveloped into a car dealership.
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EPA Grant Awards
EPA Announces Brownfields Grants Awarded for 2008
The EPA has announced grants for the seven following areas: Barboursville, Clarksburg, Monongalia Country, Point Pleasant, Ranson, WV Region I Planning and Development Council - Southern WV (McDowell County), Wyoming County Economic Development Authority
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Find out more about EPA grant-awarded communities in West Virginia:
Village of Barboursville (2006)
Brooke-Hancock-Jefferson Counties (2005)
City of Charleston (2005)
City of Clarksburg (2006, 2005, 2001)
City of Fairmont (2005)
City of Huntington (2008)
Jefferson County Parks and Recreation Commission (2007)
Kanawha County (2002)
Monongalia County (2006)
City of Nitro (2007)
City of Parkersburg (2004)
City of Point Pleasant (2006)
City of Ranson (2006, 2004)
City of Ronceverte (2008)
WV Region I Planning and Development Council(2006)
Wyoming County (2006) |
