As President Biden’s climate ambitions continue to languish in the Senate, he traveled to the site of a former coal power plant in Massachusetts Wednesday to announce new funding designed to help communities bear extreme heat, as well as tout the country’s developing offshore wind industry.
Biden is expected to announce $2.3 billion for the Federal Emergency Management’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities initiative, which supports projects in communities designed to reduce the risks posed by extreme weather events.
Heat is the biggest weather-related killer of Americans, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
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