TODAY: EPA, Santa Fe Community College Announce Environmental Workforce and Job Training Grant

 TODAY: EPA and Santa Fe Community College Announce Environmental Workforce  and Job Training Grant

DALLAS – (March 18, 2021) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Santa Fe Community College will announce an environmental job training program. The project is funded by EPA’s Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training Program, to help create a skilled workforce in the local area. EPA and Santa Fe Community College will make the announcement during a call-in press conference on Thursday, March 18 at 1:30 p.m. (Mountain)   

WHO: David Gray, Acting Regional Administrator, U.S. EPA, Region 6

Eric Chavez, Field Representative for Ben Ray Luján, U.S. Senator

Teresa Leger Fernandez, U.S. Representative

Rebecca K. “Becky” Rowley, Ph.D., Santa Fe Community College President

Gil Vigil, Executive Director of Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council

Rebecca Roose, New Mexico Environment Department

WHERE: Call-in at: (844) 215-7051

                  Participant Code: 8657908

WHEN: Thursday, March 18

   1:30 p.m. (Mountain)  

Participants are requested to call-in 15 minutes prior to the conference call start time. Members of the media are invited to attend, please RSVP to [email protected].

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