There is a historic level of funding flowing from the US government to states, territories, Native American Nations, and community-based organizations. The 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) is one of the main sources of this federal funding, alongside the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). My UCS colleagues have previously written about the importance of BIL to address long overdue upgrades to infrastructure and invest in climate resilience. Yet it remains to be seen whether the massive influx of federal funding from BIL and IRA will catalyze environmental and climate justice the way the Biden administration envisions.
Today UCS released a new report providing a first look at where non-transportation BIL money has gone in California. Tracking where this money is going—and whether it is reaching underserved and marginalized communities who need and deserve it the…
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