Hub Spotlight

Congratulations to the Lower Sioux Indian Community, C̣aƞṡayapi, who was selected as an awardee of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Pollution Reduction Grant (CPRG) under the Tribal and territories competition!

Today MTERA members include 26 Midwest Tribes and it offers services to all 35 Tribes in the region. MTERA seeks to alleviate the burden of planning, funding, and implementing energy projects for individual Tribes by providing free technical assistance through support to Tribes wherever they are in their energy journey. 

The clean energy transition is well underway, as Prairie Rivers Network’s Amanda Pankau saw firsthand last week in Washington D.C. 

Over the past two months the deadlines for both tracks of the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) passed. And now we’re in the waiting game, while applications are reviewed.

The Environmental Protection Network provides valuable resources and services to communities, organizations, and government agencies that are addressing the most critical health and environmental issues of our time--namely climate change and environmental injustice. 

We are pleased to announce the addition of three full-time team members who have taken on the day-to-day management and operations of the Great Lakes TCTAC. 

The Michigan Office of the Environmental Justice Public Advocate, Office of Climate and Energy and the Michigan Infrastructure Office hosted a webinar in January 2024 called "Community Change Grants: Michigan Support Webinar." A link to the recording is provided as well as a link to an interest survey.  

The center, led by Humphrey School faculty, has goals of equitable funding and hands-on help for underserved communities.