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New Bedford was one of 26 grant recipients selected by the EPA to share $5.1 million to operate environmental job training programs for local citizens.

New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell was in Washington, DC on Thursday to testify before the House Subcommittee on Environment. The hearing was entitled "Modernizing Environment Laws: Challenges and Opportunities for Expanding Infrastructure and Promoting Development and Manufacturing...

The City of New Bedford can now begin assessment of some key investment properties that contain levels of contamination. The City has been awarded $600,000 dollars in two separate grants from the EPA to take a closer look at the former Payne Cutlery and Elco Dress site, as well as several lots along the riverwalk in the upper harbor...

Another round of funding for brownfield clean-up initiatives is being announced in New Bedford. Mayor Jon Mitchell, Congressman William Keating, and EPA Administrator Curt Spalding will announce a $400,000 grant being awarded to the City by the EPA, to put towards clean-up efforts at the former Payne Cutlery and Elco Dress site in the near-North End...

The EPA has awarded the City of New Bedford a $200,000 grant to further clean-up efforts at a brownfield site. The grant will go towards work at the former Payne Cutlery site at the southernmost section of Church Street. The 148-acre site is situated along a three-quarter mile stretch of the planned Southcoast Rail Corridor, and redevelopment of the area looks to transform it into a transit-orient

Nearly half-a-million dollars is being handed to New Bedford to go towards cleaning up brownfield sites. The $400,000 comes from the Environmental Protection Agency Brownfields Grants, and will be used to clean up sites associated with the former Cliftex Mill property...

The City of New Bedford is continuing its effort to gather public input about future uses for so-called brownfield sites in the north end of the city. The city held another workshop on the issue Monday night.

The Patrick-Murray Administration has selected two "Brownfield" sites in New Bedford as priority sites for cleanup and redevelopment.