Biden-Harris Administration announces funding for projects

“This funding to modernise our gas pipelines will help protect residents from dangerous leaks, create good-paying jobs, and reduce methane emissions in communities across the nation, particularly in rural and underserved areas,” said US Transportation Secretary, Pete Buttigieg.

These grants are projected to create hundreds of jobs in rural and urban communities around the US Grant funding recipients will repair, replace, or rehabilitate nearly 270 miles of pipe, thereby reducing methane emissions by approximately 212 t, annually. Ultimately, these projects will advance the Biden-Harris Administration’s US Methane Emissions Reduction Action Plan, which enables the US to leverage all available tools to reduce methane emissions while protecting public health, promoting US innovation in new technologies, lowering energy costs for families by reducing inefficiency and waste, and supporting good-paying jobs for thousands of skilled workers across the country.

“Investments in pipeline safety are investments in community safety and our shared environment,” said PHMSA Deputy Administrator, Tristan Brown. “For far too long, underserved communities have had to bear the brunt of aging and dangerous pipelines. This funding will finally give communities the resources they need to replace legacy pipelines – improving safety, protecting the environment, and creating jobs.”

Department of Transportation officials will spread out across the country, delivering the grant funding to more than 20 communities, as part of President Biden’s Invest in America Tour. Secretary Pete Buttigieg will kick off the week of events in Las Cruces, New Mexico, awarding US$10 million to the City of Las Cruces.

President Biden’s Investing in America agenda is growing the American economy from the bottom up and middle-out, not top-down – from rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure, to creating a manufacturing and innovation boom powered by good-paying jobs that don’t require a four-year degree, to building a clean-energy economy that will combat climate change and make our communities safer and more resilient.

The next funding opportunity of US$392 million is expected to be released in May of this year.

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