TOMORROW: E.P.A. Administrator to Tour ReGenesis Plan in Spartanburg, South Carolina

ATLANTA - Tomorrow, E.P.A. Administrator Gina McCarthy and State Representative Harold Mitchell Jr. will tour the ReGenesis Plan and hold a media availability on the work to clean up and fully remediate 2 Superfund sites and 4 brownfield sites in Spartanburg, South Carolina. At the core of EPA's mission is an unwavering pursuit of environmental justice because pollution and climate impacts are a barrier to economic opportunity, blocking the path to middle-class security. ReGenesis leveraged an initial $20,000 grant from the E.P.A. Office of Environmental Justice into in excess of $270 million in revitalization, clean up, housing, job training, Federally Qualified Health Centers, and infrastructure. In 2000, ReGenesis was designated pilot Plan for the Inter-Agency Working Group on Environmental Justice. ReGenesis went on to serve as a model for EPA's Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem Project. This April, the ReGenesis Plan was acknowledged by the National Planing Association and received the National Planning Excellent Award for Advancing Diversity and Social Change.

With President Obama's leadership, E.P.A. is ramping up efforts to cut air and water pollution, expanding public outreach, enforcing laws to defend public health, and holding polluters accountable. And through President Obama's Climate Action Plan, E.P.A. is taking historic action to fight the economic and public health risks of a changing climate by cutting carbon pollution from power plants.

WHAT: Media availability on the ReGenesis Plan

WHO: Gina McCarthy, E.P.A. Administrator

WHEN: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 at 11:30 am.

WHERE: ReGenesis Community Health Care Center
750 South Church Street
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