Brownfields Toolbox

	Civic Works was awarded an EPA Brownfields Job Development and Training grant in October of 2001. Students participating in the job training program are learning about phytoremediation. Photo credit: Civic Works, Baltimore, Maryland

EPA in partnership with other federal agencies and local environmental employment and training programs, continues to develop long-term plans for fostering workforce development in brownfields communities. EPA believes that workforce development and job training are the critical links between environmental cleanup and safe and sustainable community redevelopment. These efforts help to guarantee that brownfields cleanup and redevelopment have the trained workforce needed to revitalize contaminated properties, and that local community members have an opportunity to compete in the economic mainstream.

The Brownfields Job Development and Training program:

• Provides quality environmental worker training.
• Recruits trainees from socio-economically disadvantaged communities.
• Allows local residents an opportunity to qualify for jobs developed as a result of brownfields efforts.