Federal Funds For Environmental Justice
Air Date: Week of September 23, 2022 Senator Ed Markey (right) speaks on the Green New Deal with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in front o...
Air Date: Week of September 23, 2022 Senator Ed Markey (right) speaks on the Green New Deal with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in front of the Capitol Building in February 2019 (Photo: Senate Democrats, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0) The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act contains billions of dollars aimed directly at addressing environmental and climate injustice. Democratic Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts was one of the architects of those provisions and joins Host Steve Curwood to discuss how to ensure low-income communities and people of color can access those funds and programs.