Lane wins $19M grant for climate justice

In first funding round, county among earliest in U.S. to receive money for new ‘resilience hubs.’

Lane County’s grant application was among 21 applicants awarded over $19 million in environmental and climate justice funding, The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced in July. 

“We feel pretty honored to be in the first cohort. We saw this coming. We were focused on the grant opportunity when … we watched the bill itself go through Congress,” said Stephen…