WORCESTER, Mass. - Parts of central and western Massachusetts will receive money from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to cleanup and assess polluted brownfield sites.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren joined city and state leaders in Worcester Friday, to announce nearly $14 million in federal funding to expedite projects across the state. The EPA selected 14 communities in Massachusetts to receive grants.

"For too long, communities across the Commonwealth and the country have been contaminated, polluted and abandoned,” Warren said. “Brownfield sites are often the result of choices that put corporate profits over people while our governments look the other way. Justice has to be at the forefront of our response to climate change."

The money is part of President Joe Biden's “Investing in America” agenda. Worcester is getting $2.7 million in funding for New Garden Park's Greendale revitalization and the Denholm Building on Main Street.

In western Massachusetts, the town of Adams and the Franklin Regional Council of Governments will receive $500,000 each for a brownfields assessment grant. The Berkshire Regional Planning Commission will also receive more than $2.3 million in funding.