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Related: About this forumHere's how $4 billion in government money is being spent to reduce climate pollution
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/23/nx-s1-5046808/heres-how-4-billion-in-government-money-is-being-spent-to-reduce-climate-pollutionHere's how $4 billion in government money is being spent to reduce climate pollution
JULY 24, 2024 2:15 AM ET
By Halle Parker, WWNO, Ellis Juhlin, Jessica Meszaros
After Hurricane Ida struck in 2022, the city of New Orleans went dark. The electric grid failed, spurring calls for more energy independence through measures like rooftop solar.
On Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency awarded the city nearly $50 million to help pay for installing solar on low to middle income homes as part of a program to cut the countrys climate pollution. The project gives the city a way to adapt as a changing climate yields stronger hurricanes while also emitting fewer emissions that cause the planet to warm. The city also plans to green up underserved areas with trees and build out its lackluster bike lane system to provide an alternative to cars.
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New Orleans is one of 82 cities and 45 states that applied for funds from a $4.3 billion grant program aimed at encouraging local action to help address human-driven climate change. The EPA selected 25 projects out of 300 applications.
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The grants are part of the Biden administrations Climate Pollution Reduction Grant Program (CPRG) a sweeping effort created under the countrys largest investment in climate action ever through the Inflation Reduction Act.
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JULY 24, 2024 2:15 AM ET
By Halle Parker, WWNO, Ellis Juhlin, Jessica Meszaros
After Hurricane Ida struck in 2022, the city of New Orleans went dark. The electric grid failed, spurring calls for more energy independence through measures like rooftop solar.
On Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency awarded the city nearly $50 million to help pay for installing solar on low to middle income homes as part of a program to cut the countrys climate pollution. The project gives the city a way to adapt as a changing climate yields stronger hurricanes while also emitting fewer emissions that cause the planet to warm. The city also plans to green up underserved areas with trees and build out its lackluster bike lane system to provide an alternative to cars.
[...]
New Orleans is one of 82 cities and 45 states that applied for funds from a $4.3 billion grant program aimed at encouraging local action to help address human-driven climate change. The EPA selected 25 projects out of 300 applications.
![](https://npr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com/85/d3%2Fd2d69a154a5db259f95a0d34b16d/1721757640538-1e0f3bd4-f1b3-4043-8b5c-c95e14e61aa3-1.jpg)
The grants are part of the Biden administrations Climate Pollution Reduction Grant Program (CPRG) a sweeping effort created under the countrys largest investment in climate action ever through the Inflation Reduction Act.
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Here's how $4 billion in government money is being spent to reduce climate pollution (Original Post)
sl8
Jul 24
OP
Think. Again.
(14,902 posts)1. That's a great first step!
But like they say, we have to crawl before we can run.
lark
(23,745 posts)2. Guarantee you fucking FL didn't file any applications because - climate change doesn't exist here, per them.
Of course Miami floods all the time and the waters are creeping up into people's yards but death sentence has decreed that it doesn't exist here so of course nothing needs to be fixed. That ass is destroying our state, on purpose to turn it into a right wing vision.
sl8
(16,127 posts)3. Looks like the state did not, but some FL municipalities did:
lark
(23,745 posts)4. Thanks for this list.
Was so happy to see that our Dem mayor applied. Go Donna Deegan!