EPA Funding Programs

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.