The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that the town of Toa Alta was selected to receive $300,000 to assess and clean up contaminated properties under the agency’s Brownfields Program. The Municipality of Toa Alta will use the grant to target the 35-acre former Industrial Zone, including four vacant and hurricane-damaged former industrial sites and a […]
The InterAmerican University of Puerto Rico is distributing $29.6 million to students in financial assistance provided through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, the college’s President Manuel J. Fernós announced. The CARES Act assigns emergency financial aid to each eligible college student actively enrolled in a face-to-face program at the time of […]
The Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Central Office for Recovery, Reconstruction and Resilience, or COR3, obligated roughly $95.4 million for 552 projects during April – more than the total number of projects approved between the months of January and September 2019 combined, they confirmed. Municipalities across the island received the bulk of these obligations […]