State Officials Hold Sway in Biden’s Climate Law Funding Rollout

Provisions in the recently passed climate law have many local leaders looking to leverage federal funds to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But some of their plans could get stopped up at the state level.

Republican state legislatures, state agencies, and governors who deny climate change could limit the rollout of climate funds, policy experts and some local elected officials say.

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, who chairs the bipartisan 470-member Climate Mayors organization, said his city and others could be affected if state authorities in charge of rolling out money don’t see climate change as a priority.

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