Post from November 4, 2022

 FRESNO, Calif. – Congressman Jim Costa (CA-16) released the following statement in response to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announcing more than $8.8 million in grant funding to conduct community air quality monitoring in California, including $377,720 for the Central California Asthma Collaborative.

The $377,720 federal grant will help the Central California Asthma Collaborative expand its network of school-based air monitors with high-performance PM2.5 sensors in underserved communities across the San Joaquin Valley. 

Congressman Jim Costa said "San Joaquin Valley residents are impacted by poor air quality. This EPA grant from the Biden-Harris Administration, made possible by the American Rescue Plan and the Inflation Reduction Act, will help monitor and address poor air quality so our children can breathe.” 

The air pollution monitoring projects are made possible by more than $30 million in Inflation Reduction Act funds, which supplemented $20 million from the American Rescue Plan and enabled EPA to support 77 additional projects, more than twice the number of projects initially proposed by community-based nonprofit organizations, state and local governments, and tribal governments. Costa was the only member of the central San Joaquin Valley delegation who voted to pass the American Rescue Plan and Inflation Reduction Act.  For more information about grant recipients and projects for California, click here.   

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