President Biden announces more than $600 million for climate change resiliency projects
In the administration’s latest effort to mitigate climate change, President Joe Biden announced Monday more than $600 million in investments for climate change resiliency projects across the country.
Almost all of the investment, $575 million, will go toward a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration project to help coastal and Great Lakes communities become more resilient to climate change impacts, such as rising sea level, more frequent storms, and increased flooding.
A total of $67 million will go toward modernizing California’s electric grid to reduce the impact of wildfires and other extreme weather events.
Funding for the project comes from both the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
The announcement comes less than a week after four major climate and environmental justice groups, including Sierra Club, League of Conservation Voters Action Fund, NextGen PAC and the NRDC Action Fund, announced a joint endorsement to back Biden's re-election bid.
Other environmental groups are holding off on announcing their support, citing the administration’s recent approvals of the Mountain Valley Pipeline and other fossil fuel projects.
The White House plans to host a summit later this year, when the Biden administration is expected to release a new climate resilience framework to outline steps the federal government can take to make communities more resilient to climate change.
