Billions funneled to green agenda one year after Biden signed infrastructure law
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One year after President Biden signed the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill into law, billions have been spent on a wide range of green projects around the country.
"To date, the administration has announced over $185 billion in funding and over 6,900 specific projects reaching over 4,000 communities across all 50 states, D.C. and the territories," the White House said. The bulk of that funding, $120 billion, went to highway and bridge projects across the country, and another $20 billion has been spent on public transit. Pete Kasperowicz is a politics editor at Fox News Digital.
But billions were also directed to environmental projects. The White House said more than $7 billion was spent on environmental cleanup projects, $1.6 billion was used to buy "no emission transit buses," $1.5 billion funded EV charging infrastructure and $1 billion was directed to an "America the Beautiful" challenge that will go toward conservation efforts.
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