Aug 9, 2022

How funding to address climate change can also help vulnerable communities

The Build Back Better Bill is stalled, but it's not the first time that legislation aimed at tackling climate change has been sidelined. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Some of the provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act put a focus on how climate change can affect at-risk communities – specifically, environmental inequity. Also, while we might be done with supply chain problems, it appears those problems aren't done with us.

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More supply chain trouble could be on the horizon

by Sabri Ben-Achour and Erika Soderstrom

Aug 9, 2022

Three factors that could cause big supply chain problems down the road.

Inflation Reduction Act's climate change funding takes aim at environmental inequity

by Mitchell Hartman

Aug 9, 2022

The bill, which has passed in the Senate and is up for a vote in the House this week, would allocate tens of billions to communities which suffer disproportionately from the effects of climate change.

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