Zack Colman
President Joe Biden has promised 40 percent of the benefits from the $2 trillion he is aiming to spend on climate change will go to disadvantaged communities that have suffered the most from pollution.
But figuring out how to spend that potential mountain of cash may vex the places vying for it and the lawmakers tasked with doling it out.
People at the highest levels of Biden’s administration are huddling to try to meet the 120-day deadline Biden set out in his sprawling executive order on climate change to issue recommendations for spending that money.
“That is a big promise,” said Cecilia Martinez, who heads the environmental justice portfolio at the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
