San Benito County among recipients of $1M in Federal Funding Climate Change Mitigation Efforts

On August 30th, U.S. Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) announced a $1 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shared between San Benito and Santa Clara counties. The grant, sourced from the EPA’s Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) program, will bolster the counties' strategies to diminish greenhouse gas emissions. The CPRG program offers grants to states, local governments, tribes, and territories for the development and execution of strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollutants. The full list of planning grant awards is available here.