Dozens of small businesses just got a needed green shot in the arm for their efforts to develop eco-friendly products, services and innovations.

EPA has handed out more than $2 million to 34 small businesses that are developing various green technologies ranging from reducing air pollution and greenhouse gases, to improving homeland security, to improving manufacturing processes, to making safer building products.

For example, EPA gave:

• Massachusetts-based Aspen Products Group, Inc., $70,000 to reduce hazardous air pollutant releases from commercial kitchen equipment
• Colorado’s Eltron Research & Development, Inc., $69,999 to develop emission control equipment for off-road vehicles
• New Jersey’s NEI Corporation won two $70,000 grants: one to develop a way to use of glass as component in environmentally friendly cement and a second to develop a new resin for use in green building designs.

The R&D grants are part of EPA’s Small Business Innovation Research program. Companies can qualify for similar grants if they’re developing new technologies for:

• Green buildings
• Innovation in manufacturing
• Nanotechnology
• Greenhouse gasses
• Drinking water and wastewater
• Air pollution
• Vehicle emissions and biofuels
• Waste management
• Homeland security, and
• Monitoring and remote sensing.

A breakdown of the 34 just-approved projects is here.