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Pennsylvania Environmental Council Receives $10,634 Environmental Grant for Watershed Education Program

Release Date: 7/26/2000
Contact Information: Roy Seneca (215) 814-5567

PHILADELPHIA -- The Pennsylvania Environmental Council has received a $10,634 environmental education grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for a watershed education program that trains school teachers about watershed management with emphasis on local issues.

In addition to scientific and technical topics, the program educates teachers on public policy issues and local initiatives that are underway in their watershed. Instruction will be integrated with existing curriculum and materials that teachers can use in their classrooms.

“This type of training program for teachers can only strengthen the environmental knowledge and commitment in a community as teachers pass on what they learn to students,” said Bradley Campbell, regional administrator for EPA’s mid-Atlantic region.

EPA’s education grant program is designed to stimulate grass-roots environmental education. This was one of six grants totaling more than $42,000 awarded in Pennsylvania. Nationally, EPA awarded more than $2.3 million in environmental education grants in 2000 to schools, civic groups and non-profit organizations.

For more information on this grant, contact Nan L. Ides at (215) 814-5546. EPA’s regional Internet home page also has general information on the grants: https://www.epa.gov/region03