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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $25.5 million in grants through its new Drinking Water System Infrastructure Resilience and Sustainability Program to support drinking water systems in underserved and disadvantaged communities.
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Around $2 billion in clean energy funding is officially headed to Indian Country, after the Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday it had fully obligated the $27 billion allocated by the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) to 68 awardees across three grant programs. With the move, the Biden administration ensured that the commitments are virtually irrevocable, even if there’s a shift in the White House in 2025.
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A trio of federally recognized tribes in northern California face a persistent and growing problem: frequent and prolonged power outages that disrupt daily life, endanger vital services, and threaten the well-being of their Native communities.
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Indian Country is on the verge of a clean-energy surge, powered by $2 billion in new funding to expand Native access to renewable technology and build new paths for tribal workforce development.
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While national organizations like the Native CDFI Network and Climate United will drive broad clean energy initiatives across Indian Country with Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund “green bank” programs, other Native-focused groups will lead regionally targeted and reservation-focused efforts through the GGRF's Solar for All program, according to the EPA.
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The Nez Perce Tribe has been selected to receive $37.3 million from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) $4.3 billion Climate Pollution Reduction Grants program. The tribe is the only Native American recipient under this initiative, which aims to support community-driven climate solutions across the nation.
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a funding opportunity aimed at bolstering collaboration between intertribal organizations to advance clean energy initiatives in federally recognized tribal communities.
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The Midwest Tribal Energy Resources Association (MTERA) has a big job in front of it: deploying $62 million in grant funding to support solar energy projects across 35 tribes in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
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A nonprofit group representing Arctic Iñupiat communities in Alaska’s North Slope Borough is suing the Bureau of Land Management over newly implemented regulations for the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A).
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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo) announced a new $120 million funding opportunity for tribes during a visit to the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians, known as the Gun Lake Tribe, in southwest Michigan.