Midwest Tribal Energy Resources Association
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 EPA has announced 25 selected CPRG applications to receive over $4.3 billion in grants and will announce the results of a separate competition for Tribes and territories later this summer. Five Tribes partnered closely with the Great Lakes TCTAC to complete their applications.
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 center, led by Humphrey School faculty, has goals of equitable funding and hands-on help for underserved communities.
The UMN is home to a new federal office intended to get as much climate investment into environmental justice communities as possible. As part of this effort, Minnesota political leaders, officials from the Environmental Protection Agency, and university staff held a roundtable discussion Wednesday highlighting the initiative.