Email: "Sac and Fox Tribe gets energy grant"
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TOLEDO CHRONICLE - WASHINGTON, D.C. (SPECIAL) – Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) has announced that Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa (Meskwaki) will receive a total of $46,600 in Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants (EECBG) from the Department of Energy (DOE) as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the Recovery Act).

The Tribe owns and occupies land west of Tama-Toledo and east of Montour in Tama County.

These funds are being awarded to help communities improve their energy efficiency, reduce their energy use and fossil fuel emissions, and create green jobs locally. Harkin is a senior member of the Appropriations Committee that helped to shape the Recovery Act.

“Rising energy costs are impacting all sectors of our economy and efficiency improvements will help lower costs for members of the Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa,” Harkin said. “Making investments in energy saving programs helps lower our negative impact on the environment and decrease our dangerous dependence for foreign oil, all while stimulating our economy by creating ‘green’ jobs.”

Specifically, this funding will be used for: energy audits and building retrofits in the residential and commercial sector, the development and implementation of advanced building codes and inspections and the creation of financial incentive programs for energy efficiency improvements.

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