Governor Kathy Hochul said on Friday that the state of New York is making $2.1 million in competitive grant money available to support local efforts to enhance air quality.
The funds will be available to community-based non-profit organizations that work with underserved areas of New York that have had air pollution problems.
"I know firsthand the urgency of our fight against air pollution and climate change as someone who grew up in the shadow of a steel plant that contributed to orange skies and a polluted Lake Erie," Hochul said. These awards will focus on the problems with air quality that disadvantaged neighborhoods experience and help advance methods for making New York a greener state and enhancing the health and well-being of all New Yorkers.
A statewide air quality and greenhouse gas monitoring program was started in New York in 2022, including ten municipalities and five million residents, or about 25% of the state's total population.
While this is going on, the state Department of Environmental Conservation is collaborating with organizations to map local air pollution.
Since Governor Hochul began the statewide Community Air Monitoring initiative in 10 underserved neighborhoods last year, "considerable work and local collaboration is advancing," said DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos. The $2.1 million in grants that were made available during Air Quality Awareness Week "will be crucial in ensuring that local-state partnerships bolster this effort to identify local sources of pollution and drive solutions and actions to improve air quality in neighborhoods across the state."
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