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Inflation Reduction Act Commits Just $47 Billion to Environmental Justice, Activists Say

Inside Climate News · Kristoffer Tigue · last updated

Senate Democrats could be “overcounting” the funding for environmental justice provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act and misrepresenting the bill’s benefits for low-income families, communities of color and other historically disadvantaged Americans, according to a coalition of climate and environmental justice advocacy groups that is analyzing the 725-page spending package.

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