5: The Healthy Streets Program would have helped state & local governments fix heat & flooding, particularly needed in Black & Latine neighborhoods where racist policies pushed people to floodplains & heat islands, but Congress has never actually funded it www.carbonbrief.org/discriminato...
Rachel I. Jacobson
Each of these programs addresses critical health & safety needs that have gone unaddressed for far too long. Congress should maintain these programs’ authorizations and continue funding them to advance progress on repairing environmental injustice.
2: The Neighborhood Access & Equity Grants program repairs harm in Black communities devastated by highway construction. The oversubscribed program has seeded 200+ projects. www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/first-r...
3 & 4: The Carbon Reduction Program & the Reducing Truck Emissions at Port Facilities Program make lifesaving interventions to reduce transportation pollution, particularly needed in Black and Latine communities, which are located in disproportionally affected places. foe.org/blog/us-port...
"...the nation is a tinderbox, gripped by widespread drought and with a light snowpack in the mountains...upheaval in the federal wildland firefighting effort have left firefighters deeply concerned about their ability to mount an effective response."
“The central question is no longer whether firm renewables can compete on cost, but how quickly the structural conditions needed to realise their potential can be put in place across the diversity of markets and institutional contexts prevailing globally.”
1: The PROTECT Program helps states and tribes upgrade critical infrastructure such as bridges & evacuation routes) to be more resilient to climate impacts. www.transportation.gov/rural/grant-...
another day, another harebrained scheme by the Trump administration to keep coal plants open www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...
Congress’s first go at a surface transportation deal – the Build America 250 Act – deauthorizes 5 programs designed to help states repair harm to low-income communities and communities of color from dangerous infrastructure & pollution. Congress should protect & grow these programs. ⬇️
another day, another untargeted energy affordability proposal that doesn't provide meaningful relief www.newsfromthestates.com/article/econ...
