Samuel Adams Brewery received $3.6 million in grant money from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency that will allow the brewery to expand operations in Ohio.
The brewery received two grants totalling $3.6 million from the “Clean Ohio Revitalization Fund” to clean up brownfield areas surrounding its Cincinnati brewery.
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“They could have chose[n] to stay here and be landlocked, or to expand and take some risk, or to move out of the state and they chose not to do that,” Ohio EPA Director Scott Nally told Fox in late April. “We encourage things like this and what a better time than in an Earth Day celebration.”
The United States Environmental Protection Agency defines brownfields as “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.”
