With billions at stake, defining the neediest communities has stirred a national debate – including in New York.
Donate NowGloria Boyce-Charles' home in southeast Queens didn’t make the state’s newly released list of “disadvantaged communities,” which would make it first in line for money and attention as New York fights pollution and climate change in the next decades.
Last week, a state working group finalized the list of “disadvantaged communities,” more than 1,700 census tracts comprising some 35% of the state, that will receive priority for pollution cleanup and funding for clean energy programs under the state’s sweeping Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act passed in 2019.
Rahwa Ghirmatzion, another working group member and executive director of PUSH Buffalo, said if the decision of who to award funding was solely in the hands of the working group, they would’ve awarded it to the 60% of New Yorkers who experience some kind of energy burden.
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