Alan Ohnsman is a Forbes senior editor who covers cleantech and advanced transportation. He joined Forbes in 2016 and works in Los Angeles. He co-authors the Current Climate newsletter, writes about promising clean energy developments and has covered Tesla since 2006, when he was with Bloomberg News. He has a graduate degree in journalism and a B.
the presidential race heats up, there’s growing concern that a large pool of loan funds created by the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act to accelerate clean energy projects won’t be fully tapped if voters opt to return Republican Donald Trump to the White House. To date, less than $10 billion of the $400 billion available for the Energy Department ’shas been doled out to qualified applicants.
Under Biden, the office has so far approved loans totaling about $6.5 billion to five companies and has over 200 applications seeking $281 billion as of the end of July. Given the unknown election outcome, the pace of loan commitments appears to have picked up, however, with a new $1.45 billion agreement for an expansion of a solar project in Georgia, $1.
These daily rates were even greater for children of color, with a 95% increase in asthma exacerbations for Hispanic and Latino children in the San Francisco Bay area during the wildfire, according to the study. It also highlights the relationship between regional poverty, home ownership and asthma-related emergency department visits.
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