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Aug 9, 2022

How funding to address climate change can also help vulnerable communities

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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The Build Back Better Bill is stalled, but it's not the first time that legislation aimed at tackling climate change has been sidelined.
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More supply chain trouble could be on the horizon
by Sabri Ben-Achour and Erika Soderstrom
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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
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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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How funding to address climate change can also help vulnerable communities

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More supply chain trouble could be on the horizon

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

The Team