Securing Environmental Justice for All - How the Biden Administration Is Fighting for Clean Air and Water, Climate Protection, and Healthy Communities for Every American

This is an incredible milestone in our efforts to clean up and protect communities, deliver local jobs, enhance economic activity, and improve people’s lives for years to come.”9 In addition, the administration awarded $1 billion in IRA funds for roughly 400 projects in all 50 states to expand parks and tree cover, reduce extreme heat risks, and improve public health and quality of life in communi. [...] Together, these three taxes are expected to raise $20 billion in revenue over 10 years to fund the cleanup of hazardous waste sites and protect the health and safety of neighboring communities.48 Since December 2021, the EPA has invested $3.5 billion from the IIJA to clean up more than 150 high-priority Superfund sites across the country and to address the long backlog of hazardous waste sites in. [...] Nearly $300 million for air quality monitoring and enforcement in low-income communities and communities of color The IRA also provided $235 million to monitor air quality—including dangerous pollutants such as ozone and particulate matter in communities—at industry fence lines and in or near schools in low-income communities and communities of color.56 IRA investments in new enforcement technolog. [...] Department of Energy estimates that these programs will save households up to $1 billion annually.62 In addition, the IRA invested $1 billion in the Green and Resilient Retrofit Program to make affordable housing more energy and water efficient and better able to withstand more extreme heat events, flooding, and other climate change effects.63 As of March 2023, the U. [...] The IRA included $1.5 billion for the Urban and Community Forestry Assistance Program to expand tree cover and green spaces in cities, where roughly 85 percent of Americans live and work, in an effort to cool neighborhoods, reduce extreme heat risks, and create jobs in tree-planting and maintenance.93 In September 2023, the U.