August 11, 2004—The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has funded seven new innovative projects aimed at making the agency’s waste programs more effective. A total of $465,490 will fund projects ranging from reducing NOx emissions from biodiesel production, to applying an emerging technology to emergency response and reducing waste while deconstructing old residential rowhouses.
This marks the second round of innovative project funding for 2004. The program tests innovative ideas to make EPA’s waste programs more efficient and effective, better measure and analyze the results, and then publicize the projects around the country so others can learn from the experiments. To date, EPA has selected 44 projects totaling approximately $2 million. For more information on all the pilot projects, visit EPA.
