WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce announced that it expects to award up to 12 cooperative agreements for environmental literacy programs to increase community resilience to extreme weather and climate change in thirty-one states. The states are Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Da more ST

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce announced that it expects to award up to 15 cooperative agreements for marine debris prevention. The agency description of the cooperative agreement states: "The NOAA Marine Debris Program, authorized in the Marine Debris Act, codified at 33 U.S.C. Sec. 1951 et seq., supports the development and implementation of locally-driven, marine debris assessment, removal and prevention projects that benefit coastal habitat, waterways, and marine an more ST