By Rebekah Gonzalez
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The city of Sacramento is proposing to plant more trees in order to fight climate change and lower energy costs in underserved neighborhoods.
The Trees Act would allocate $50 million a year for five years to plant 300,000 trees across the city, reports
The trees would be planted in neighborhoods that don t have a lot of trees, which are often lower-income neighborhoods. The goal of the plan is to help clean the air in the surrounding areas and lower residents energy costs.
“There are no trees, as you can see. I have palm trees, but we hardly get any shade from those,” South Sacramento resident