#good news everyone!

[kawuli]

Today in "cool things the US government is doing"

The Environmental Protection Agency is giving out $2 billion in Community Change Grants "to empower historically disadvantaged communities all across the country to access federal funding to address the challenges of climate change, increase resiliency, and transform lives."

The grants target "communities most adversely and disproportionately impacted by climate change, legacy pollution, and historical disinvestments"

Specifically:

Tribes in Alaska: $150 million for projects benefitting Indian Tribes in Alaska including funds for cleanup of contaminated lands.

Tribes: $300 million for projects benefiting Tribal communities in the other states. 

Territories: $50 million for projects benefitting disadvantaged communities in the United States’ territories of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands.

Disadvantaged Unincorporated Communities: $50 million for projects benefiting small and rural areas that lack fixed, legally determined geographic boundaries, such as Colonias.

U.S.-Southern Border Communities: Consistent with the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) longstanding commitment to addressing transborder pollution challenges, $100 million for projects benefitting non-Tribal disadvantaged communities within 100 kilometers north of the U.S.-Mexico border.

$200 million is also available in technical assistance to help people with the application process, so organizations without the institutional capacity to understand complicated federal funding structures can get help, free of charge.

As they put it, "The Community Change Grants are funded by the Environmental Protection Agency to empower historically disadvantaged communities all across the country to access federal funding to address the challenges of climate change, increase resiliency, and transform lives."

So a) if you know of any organizations that might be able to use this funding, spread the word! and b) sometimes the government does good stuff, even in this the year of our discontent 2024.

[singlecrow]

sometimes I think I want a list of things people know/do/say because they were in a specific fandom at a specific time and never shall anything else explain it. Like everyone who isn't Canadian who can say "The year was 1778!" and then sing all of Barrett's Privateers.

[credibilicious]

[arachnaemboss]

writing this down for my own sanity

zee's regular height: 11 ft

full demon form: 22 ft

human height: 6'1 ft

[forgottenbones]

[the-quotable-alberta-hansard]

November 8, 2023

Ms Notley: Earlier today Karen Kuprys, a registered nurse not consulted, said that private care facilities had the worst fatality rates during the peak of the pandemic. Will the Premier commit that under no circumstances will the government sell CapitalCare or Carewest to the private sector?

Ms Smith: This is the reason why you have to look at the most up-to-date information as opposed to a slide deck from two months ago, because we go through a process where we get feedback, and the feedback that we got is that Alberta Health Services should continue to run those two facilities.

I will correct the record, Mr. Speaker. Alberta did very well during COVID. We did not have the same level of problems as they did in Quebec, for instance, and it’s because we had . . . [interjection]

[noodleshark]

i love how deep cut doesnt care about who won theyre still besties

[inkandguns]

Colorado gun owners - you make me proud to be an American!!!

500 scheduled to speak in opposition - normal folks like you and me!!!

The committee had problems with “loud applause”

This is how you make your voice heard, the original way that the Colorado and US constitutions outlined.

In Washington they were too scared of this and have the members sign bills like this in the middle of the night in secret.

There’s that “come up this mountain and make me” attitude towards Denver that I love so much.

Thanks for my daily White Pill, Coloradans!!!!!!!!

[viewparadise]

Those channels are WILDLY distressing and I'm hoping they get phased out sooner than later.

getting rid of family vlog channels one state at a time let's gooo

[kairisk]

For when they no longer serve you, cast them aside like old skin

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Dog Meshi.

[newthinkerer]

*sigh* I gotta do everything around here...

Anita Bryant just died and I haven't seen one crab rave gif on my dash yet... Come on people

[annikasevenshots]

So today is the Lunar New Year of the Snake.

It is also, incidentally, Threshold Day.

Therefore, may I suggest

✨ The Year of the Salamander 🦎🧧✨

[scroogles]

[zorangezest]

(switcherooau) your new everything :)

im retreating into my cave to work on some big ol oc projects now—have this while I’m gonee