| CONTACT: 202-564- 7849 202-564-4355 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE EPA Announces Support for Small Businesses to Bring Green Technology, Innovative Research to Marketplace Small businesses in Calif., Del., Ga., Ill., La., Ohio, N.Y., and Tenn., to receive EPA funding WASHINGTON –U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy announced today nine awards in eight states for small businesses to help them bring innovative green technologies to the marketplace. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy held a press call to announce the awards and reiterate the agency’s commitment to strengthening economic growth, supporting sustainable businesses, and combating the impacts of climate change. “The small businesses receiving awards today are innovating affordable, energy efficient technologies that are strengthening our economy and building a low-carbon future while bringing a unique vision for addressing complex environmental issues like reducing harmful emissions to create a cleaner environment and enhancing recycling processes,” said EPA Administrator McCarthy. “When we invest in research and innovation, that return on investment builds a healthy economy and a healthy environment for all of us.” Administrator McCarthy announced almost $3 million in funding to nine small businesses through the agency’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. She was joined on a press call by David Levine of the American Sustainable Business Council and two SBIR awardees, John Rich of Nashville-based National Recovery Technologies, LLC., a small business that produced a low cost technology to recycle electronics; and Carol Ann Wedding, president of Imaging Systems Technology, a small business that developed a highly efficient, versatile water purification system, based in Toledo, Ohio. EPA’s SBIR funding reinforces the agency’s commitment to supporting small businesses and protecting human health and the environment, bringing the total support for the over 30 year-long program to $140 million. Small businesses will use this funding to commercialize these solutions. Since its creation, EPA’s SBIR Program has given 969 awards to small businesses that provide jobs for developing cutting-edge, green technologies. The Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs are the largest source of early-stage capital for innovative small companies in the United States. Via these programs, the federal government invests over 2 billion dollars in American entrepreneurial firms to develop and commercialize technologies that strengthen our nation's defense, improve the health of its citizens, and enhance education. The SBIR program provides funding in two phases. In the first phase, proposals are submitted by companies and, after undergoing a competitive selection process, they can receive up to $100,000 in funding for proof of concept. Successful Phase I companies that want to participate in Phase II must go through a second competitive process to receive up to $300,000 for two years. The following companies received $2.7 million in 2014 SBIR Phase II funding:
More information on the SBIR Phase II awards: www.epa.gov/ncer/2014SBIRphase2awards For more information about the SBIR Program: www.epa.gov/ncer/sbir/ To be notified by email when EPA’s research funding opportunities are available, sign up at: www.epa.gov/ncer/listserv/
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