FEMA to make $1.2 billion available for resilience grants, direct more to disadvantaged areas
Source: Axios, via Yahoo! News
Axios
FEMA to make $1.2 billion available for resilience grants, direct more to disadvantaged areas
Andrew Freedman
Mon, August 9, 2021, 9:28 AM · 2 min read
The Biden administration is moving to direct $1.2 billion toward programs that encourage communities to build resilient infrastructure, and an additional $160 million for flood mitigation grant programs.
Why it matters: Making grant money more widely available, particularly to disadvantaged communities, could help reduce damage from increasingly severe storms in the future. A landmark U.N. climate report released Monday finds that extreme weather events are rapidly becoming more frequent and severe due to human-caused global warming.
Details: The $1.2 billion for the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program in particular provides money to states, communities, tribes and territories to take actions that would make them better able to withstand future extreme weather events.
-- “It is critical that as we work to address climate change, we are doing so in a way that ensures equity in the delivery of our programs,” FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell said in a statement.
-- “By altering the criteria for the FMA and BRIC Programs, we aim to reach more underserved and at-risk communities, which are often disproportionately impacted by climate change, and provide them with the necessary means to make them more resilient for the next disaster," she said.
Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/fema-1-2-billion-available-132852361.html
Hat tip, the White House
FACT SHEET: Biden Administration Announces Nearly $5 Billion in Resilience Funding to Help Communities Prepare for Extreme Weather and Climate-Related Disasters
AUGUST 09, 2021 • STATEMENTS AND RELEASES
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/08/09/fact-sheet-biden-administration-announces-nearly-5-billion-in-resilience-funding-to-help-communities-prepare-for-extreme-weather-and-climate-related-disasters/
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So what good is it?
Democrats have to get their damn priorities straight!
