Search Results for keywords:"climate change mitigation"

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  • 2024-30651 — Notice of Funding Opportunity for the Timber Production Expansion Guaranteed Loan Program for Fiscal Year 2024
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    Type:Notice
    Citation:89 FR 104972
    Reading Time:about 22 minutes

    The Rural Business-Cooperative Service (RBCS), part of the USDA, has announced a funding opportunity under the Timber Production Expansion Guaranteed Loan Program for 2024. This program will help lenders provide loans to entities looking to build or improve sawmills and wood processing facilities near priority U.S. Forest Service lands. Over $200 million will be available starting in 2025, funded by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The goal is to support ecological restoration efforts by using byproducts from these projects and to advance rural economic opportunities, while prioritizing climate change mitigation and racial equity.

    Simple Explanation

    The government is offering money to help people fix or build places that turn trees into things near important forests, and they want to make sure it's good for nature and helps all kinds of people. They're making sure the rules are clear so everyone knows who can get this help and how to ask for it.

  • 2025-01464 — Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United States Outer Continental Shelf From Oil and Natural Gas Leasing
    Type:Presidential Document
    Citation:90 FR 6743
    Reading Time:about 2 minutes

    The memorandum, issued by the Executive Office of the President, withdraws certain areas of the United States Outer Continental Shelf from being available for oil and natural gas leasing. This decision affects regions in the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic, and the Pacific, considering the protection of fragile marine ecosystems, coastal environments, and the need to mitigate climate change. The withdrawal applies indefinitely and does not impact rights under existing leases in these areas.

    Simple Explanation

    The President's office decided that some parts of the ocean near the US won't be used for getting oil or gas anymore, to help protect the water and animals there and also to help fight climate change. This decision doesn't change any deals that were already made for those areas, and they didn't say when or if this will change in the future.