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Look for solar panels to blossom atop low-income homes in Indian Country over the next five years. Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency announced $500 million for tribes as part of $7 billion in grants for residential solar energy. Some $5.5 billion will go to states, and $1 billion to multi-state awards. The $7 billion […] The post $500 million for solar energy for tribal families appeared first on Source New Mexico.

Three hundred Navajo and Hopi homes will be equipped with a solar power system from Native Renewables Inc. with the help of $8 million in federal funds.

Alex Honnold is no stranger to challenges. Most famously, in 2017, he became the only person to have climbed Yosemite National Park’s 3,000-foot vertical rock formation, El Capitan, without ropes or harnesses, a feat chronicled in the Oscar-winning documentary Free Solo .

When the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act IIJA was enacted in 2021 Congress made 13 billion dollars available for investment directly into Tribal communities.

Native communities see clean energy as a way to remedy some of the abuses depicted in the new Martin Scorsese film, "Killers of the Flower Moon."