Griffith Announces $500,000 EPA Brownfields Grant to Pulaski
Friday, May 16, 2025 – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded the Town of Pulaski, Virginia, a $500,000 Brownfield Assessment grant. The funding supports a community-wide assessment of local brownfields. U.S. Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) issued the following statement:
“The EPA’s Brownfields Program has the power to transform and revitalize communities, including those in Southwest Virginia.
“This EPA Brownfield Assessment grant for $500,000 helps the Town of Pulaski conduct an assessment of hazardous or polluted sites that can be potentially redeveloped for economic and social gain in Southwest Virginia.”
BACKGROUND
Congressman Griffith is chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment.
In March of 2025, Congressman Griffith chaired a hearing on the EPA’s Brownfields Program. Scott County Native and LENOWISCO Executive Director Duane Miller testified to the panel and discussed the Program’s importance to Southwest Virginia communities.
The Brownfields Program empowers states, communities and other stakeholders to work together to prevent, assess, safely clean up and sustainably reuse brownfields.
A brownfield site is real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant or contaminant.
Brownfield Assessment grants provide funding for brownfield inventories, planning, environmental assessments and community outreach.
Congressman Griffith’s e-newsletter on the Program can be found here.
Chairman Griffith will hold a hearing next week with EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to discuss the agency’s Fiscal Year 2026 budget.
May 16, 2025 @ 5:47 pm
this money will be misused by certain people in pulaski. nothing essential will get done with this money.. never any real improvements to pulaski. only when it has to be done..
May 18, 2025 @ 11:02 am
However, Ole Griff will gain some voters.
If he would put, oh say, $20,000 in my pocket, I’d support him.
May 18, 2025 @ 3:02 pm
Another grant that get’s pissed away with no clear outcome. Maybe another EV Hummer in their driveway?
May 19, 2025 @ 7:18 am
Take that money and use it to fix the water and waste water treatment facilities in town. This is not near enough money to solve the problems you have but a better use of this grant money then paying a consulting agency to tell you the old acid plant area and magnox area have problems. Which we all ready know.
May 19, 2025 @ 8:29 am
Need to tear down the old hospital on Randolph Ave. and build the new water plant there.
May 19, 2025 @ 12:58 pm
Well, everyone agrees that pockets get lined but this time it’s going to be watched closely by us, the residents of Pulaski. Fix the water and sewage lines with the funds so our contaminated water is drinkable! No pay raises but for the work force that actually does all the work for the entire Town. Nothing for office sitter’s and no need to pay for a consultant for information we know. Griffin is a joke and he should go
May 19, 2025 @ 2:11 pm
Wasted money on assessments. Use it to make our drinking water safe or get the asbestos out of old hospital then sell it for apartments or tear it down and build nice apartments. Right now it is inhabited by someone from time to time – the homeless? It will probably burn down some day and will be of use to no one.