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Winds of Change Newsletter, October 2009 See sidebar for table of contents
 Six
Southern WV Communities to Benefit from EPA Grant
Funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to
Wheeling Jesuit University (WJU) will help six West Virginia communities
tackle environmental problems. EPA awarded a $269,374 Community Action
for a Renewed Environment (CARE) grant to WJU for environmental health
work in Mud River, Prenter, Cabin Creek, Ansted, Logan and Varney.
 WJU
will use this grant to focus on specific problems including impacts from
mining and coal slurry; water and wastewater management; reducing
exposure to toxins; and developing new expertise in community medicine.
Some communities will have their drinking water sampled to determine its
safety. The work will be done under the umbrella of the collective
community organization Appalachia CARE Partnership.
The CARE grant program supports community-based
solutions to environmental problems. See
www.epa.gov/air/care/basic.htm.
For information on Sludge Safety Projects work with
CARE, e-mail
stephanie@sludgeafety.org.
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