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Policy & Grants

Grants, cost-share programs and the policy decisions shaping rural and industrial investment.

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Policy

POLICYSpringfield, IL

An $850 Million Clean Watershed Round for Family Farms: How the Money Would Flow

A proposed cost-share round would pay family farms to build buffer strips, wetlands and drainage-water controls; here is how such programs typically work and who could apply.

Jordan Whitfield4 min read

Policy

FEDERAL GRANTSAlbuquerque, NM

$3.4B in Solar Resiliency Grants Flows to 11 Southwest Cooperatives

Rural electric cooperatives across the Southwest are putting resiliency grant money into solar-plus-storage microgrids, according to a program summary shared by the cooperatives.

Jordan Whitfield4 min read