Grant Opportunities
Learn about current funding opportunities
- Air Grants: includes competitive grant funding announcements for projects and programs relating to air quality, transportation, climate change, indoor air and other related topics.
- Brownfields Grants and Funding: existing facilities where redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived contamination.
- Community Action for a Renewed Environment (CARE): provides funding to build broad-based partnerships to reduce environmental risks at the local level.
- Environmental Education Grants: projects to help the public make informed decisions that affect environmental quality.
- Environmental Information Exchange Network & Grant Program: provides funding to develop an Internet-based, secure network that supports the electronic collection, exchange, and integration of high-quality data.
- Environmental Justice: includes the EJ Community/ University Partnership Grants Program and the Environmental Justice Through Pollution Prevention Grants Program.
- Fellowships and other student programs: Grants, fellowships, and research associateships
- National Clean Diesel Campaign Grants & Funding: building diesel engine emission reduction programs across the country to improve air quality and protect public health.
- People, Prosperity and the Planet: college students address challenges from a wide range of categories: agriculture, built environment, materials and chemicals, energy, and water. These can be challenges found in the developed or developing world and the solutions will move us towards a sustainable future.
- Pollution Prevention Grant Program: provides matching funds to state and tribal programs to support pollution prevention and to develop State-based programs.
- State Innovation Grant Program: provides funds and technical assistance to state environmental agencies to promote testing of innovative approaches in environmental permitting for better results and efficiency.
- Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Grants & Fellowships: funds research grants in numerous environmental science and engineering disciplines through a competitive solicitation process and independent peer review.
- Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR): competitively funds environmental technology research at small businesses.
- Water Grants: includes the state revolving funds for drinking water and wastewater, grants for water pollution prevention and wetlands protection, and tribal grants.
Every year, EPA awards grants through the P3 award competition to college teams across the country who participate in the National Sustainable Design Expo. Above, Harvard, Wellesley College, MIT, and Qinghai Normal University students developed a 3-in-1 solar cooker, heater, and electricity generator to help bring clean energy to the rural Himalayas. Read more about this project.