{"id":37686,"date":"2023-04-27T12:06:33","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T16:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.greenmoney.com\/2025\/?p=37686"},"modified":"2023-06-02T18:10:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T22:10:49","slug":"native-americans-get-funding-for-climate-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.greenmoney.com\/2025\/native-americans-get-funding-for-climate-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Native Americans Get Funding for Climate Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"
>> Back to May 2023 Issue<\/a><\/div>\n

The U.S. Inflation Reduction Act directs $720 million to tribes and Native communities for climate resilience and solutions.<\/span><\/i><\/h3>\n

\"ClimateFrom gold rushes to oil booms, Native American lands have been subjected to some of the worst environmental abuses in America. Unregulated mineral mining, rapacious fossil fuel extraction and multiple pipelines have dominated land occupied for thousands of years by Indigenous people. The history is dotted with cavalier treatments by corporate energy and mining interests. Many Native Americans have ended up living in some of the most degraded landscapes in the country, their communities severely damaged by factors ranging from the practical \u2014 such as polluted water \u2014 to cultural: some of the most desecrated tribal lands are sacred in the belief systems of various Native American tribes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With marginalized status and little political power, tribal communities have historically struggled to protect their lived environment from ecological degradation. And there\u2019s another severely limiting factor in their ability to defend their landscape: poverty. Native Americans\u00a0<\/span>have<\/span><\/a>\u00a0the highest poverty rate among all minority groups at 25.4 percent.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, for the past 50 years it has been relatively easy for fossil fuel and mining interests to separate Native Americans from their assets and resources with relative impunity. It\u2019s no accident that the movement for Native American rights rose in tandem with the growth of a national environmental awareness in the<\/span>\u00a01970s<\/span><\/a>. As a general group, Native Americans are among the most affected by the\u00a0<\/span>ecological quality<\/span><\/a>\u00a0of the natural assets on which they live or which they claim as ancestral homelands.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, one of the biggest steps toward rectifying this sorry state of affairs is underway, thanks to the climate-related provisions of the\u00a0<\/span>Inflation Reduction Act<\/span><\/a>. Within its unprecedented allocation of $379 billion for investment and subsidies in climate initiatives, there\u2019s a little-remarked upon directive that steers $720 million to climate resilience and energy funding for Native-driven climate solutions and tribal energy development.<\/span><\/p>\n

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