(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – Algae floats in the water at the Maumee Bay State Park marina in Lake Erie in Oregon, Ohio, Sept. 15, 2017. Ohio’s environmental regulators will have until the end of June to finish a plan to aimed at combating toxic algae blooms that have flourished in Lake Erie since the late 1990s. The deadline is part of settlement agreement approved by a federal judge on Thursday, May 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Ambrdige, PA) According to a release from State Representative Rob Matzie’s office, almost $80,000 in grant funding will support environmental education for Beaver County students and composting. This money will help residents of the area and willalso help education at PFAS workshops. $19,180 went to the Summer Sustainability Institute program for RiverWise, $28,424 went to a project for Pennsylvania Resources Council, Inc., and $30,000 went to Penn State University.