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Biden awards $830 million to toughen nation's infrastructure against climate change (apnews.com)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

These are just the latest grants in $50 billion already allocated so far, with more to come from both the infrastructure law and the inflation reduction act (which had the bulk of the climate change related funding). The $837 million is just the funding for these 80 newest projects that got funding on Thursday. The money from these giant laws don't all go out at once. It's made available, and then projects are submitted by state and local governments for funding. Everyone in this comment thread acting like $837 million is the only climate change funding is very mistaken and should probably start by reading the article, it's purpose is just to inform on these newest batch of projects that applied for and are now going to receive funding. I'm not saying don't allocate even more, but waaaay more than $837 million has been allocated so far and there's a lot more funding already passed waiting for projects still. It's not like specifically last Thursday was the only day ever that climate projects are being funded, just the latest batch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Oh I definitely read it, and was also being snarky for sure. But even in the article it says that only 50 billion total gas been doled out. 50 billion split between more than fifty different states and territories over the course of two years still doesn’t cut it for me. Yes, it helps and i’m certainly appreciative that it is not zero (as it would have been otherwise). However, it is still far too little, especially when it is estimated that we spend 20 billion every year on oil industry subsidies.