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ARPA–C. The administration is proposing to house ARPA–C in the Department of Energy with several agencies pitching in funds. USGS states its initial $60 million contribution would focus on reducing “barriers between science production and user application” in the following five areas: “planning tools for habitat and biodiversity, models for drought prediction, predictive tools for fire and post-fire risk management, coastal change and vulnerability forecasts for planning and disaster response, and models to assess potential and risks for geologic storage of hydrogen, including hydrogen produced using renewable energy.”
Climate science centers. Funding for the Climate Adaptation Science Centers program would double to $84 million under the request. Of the increase, $25 million would expand work across the network of eight university-based centers, with a focus on developing “climate adaptation services” that would support natural resources management
Budgets are a statement of priorities, and President Biden
What makes this budget truly innovative is that, across nearly every federal agency, there are new programs and efforts designed to tackle the climate crisis. These new programs are coupled with an increase in requests for personnel, an essential step to revitalize the federal agencies in the wake of former President Trump
This ambitious document increases investments in climate action by over $14 billion from the previous year. Above all, it prioritizes investing in resilience and clean energy, enhances U.S. competitiveness, and puts America on a path to achieve net-zero emissions no later than 2050.
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