Cities in the San Francisco Bay Area will be receiving more than $42 million in funding to combat climate change by planting trees and creating urban spaces, among other projects, California lawmakers said this week.
U.S. Senators Alex Padilla and Dianne Feinstein, D-California, said the funding is part of the $102.8 million grant awarded to the state by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service. It comes from the Inflation Reduction Act, according to Padilla’s office.
“As extreme temperatures increasingly threaten the safety of workers and communities all across California, expanding access to shade and green spaces is more important than ever,” Padilla said in a statement.
Based on data from Padilla’s office, the San Francisco Public Works-Bureau of Urban Forestry will receive $12 million while the city-county’s Recreation and Parks Department will get $2 million for tree planting, environment maintenance, and other projects.
The following Bay Area cities and government agencies will also receive grants: Berkeley ($1 million) Concord ($1 million), Fremont ($383,472), Hayward ($500,000), Oakland ($8 million), Petaluma ($1 million), Pittsburg ($2 million), San Jose ($6,644,300), Santa Cruz ($1 million), Vallejo ($1,734,070), Walnut Creek ($100,000), Napa County Resource Conservation District ($1,560,761), and Watsonville Wetlands Watch ($3,275,191).
Feinstein stressed the importance of the funding since a lot of California’s urban areas lack sufficient tree canopies as the effects of climate change continue to batter the state and the country.
“This grant funding will help more cities and towns plant and maintain trees, which in turn will filter out pollution, reduce energy consumption, lower temperatures and provide more Californians access to green spaces in their communities,” she said.
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How does it reduce inflation?
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Biden recently admitted the “Inflation Reduction Act” was wrongly named because it did nothing of the sort.
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But its typical for liberals to mislead the public with their legislation like “The American Rescue Plan” which did nothing of the sort except pile on trillions more in public debt.
While I support planting trees, the bill should have been named the Inflation Creation Act. It seems that Leftists are clueless when it comes to finances.
Planting more trees is good (as long as they’re the right ones) even without “climate change” hysteria. But I don’t trust Padilla anyway. I think he threw the 2016 primary for Hillary especially when she hardly got any turnout to her campaign gatherings while Bernie drew overflow crowds. These kind politicos do what their overlord$ demand.
This is beyond stupid. I have some advice though. Don’t plant any trees under power lines. The state must have money to burn. This will do zero for the environment. If they really wanted to do something replace the trees burned or cut down in the forests. Why do I have to criticize everything the state does. Because people running this state are numbskulls. Common sense has left the building.
To prove my point that they are numbskulls today, Newsom and Bonta announced today they are suing the oil companies for lying to the public about climate change for years. Maybe Newsom and Bonta should be sued for lying about climate change.
More trees for PG&E power lines to burn down.
@Strad
And for negligent drivers to knock down.
I saw the same thing. If I were a reporter, I’d ask both of them how they go from from place to place? Then I suggest they start riding a bicycle, walk, or only use EVs.
The Inflation Reduction Act does nothing to reduce inflation.
All it does is increase government spending by printing more worthless money and increasing inflation along with the national debt.
The only way to reduce inflation is to stop reckless government spending, reduce government spending, eliminate government bureaucracies, close the border, and replace all the current elected representatives.
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Apparently Oakland thinks planting trees is more important than combating retail theft.
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inflation reduction? lmao
Trees good ! ! !
My gracious, what a miraculous epiphany DEMs just had.
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As I’ve said before DEMs have never come across a problem
they couldn’t throw your tax dollars at.
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“How does it reduce inflation?”
It will do whatever the press release says it will,
that is until it doesn’t and by then they’re counting on voters short memories.
Oh so now planting trees is a good idea? I was told they were developing carbon capture machines to do this and was called a conspiracy theorist for suggesting planting trees. Unbelievable amount of gas lighting has gone on in the last few years. Good, plant trees. Do it.
This is to fight climate change, not for inflation reduction.
Then why was it included in the Act?
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Things that don’t just funnel greenbacks to the already-wealthy can only get passed if they are included in big acts like the Inflation Reduction Act. Look how easy it is to pass increases to the Pentagon; increases even the Pentagon hasn’t requested, but that benefit fat-cat military contractor CEOs. A bill to provide money to plant trees would have died faster than a pine tree infested with pine beetles if it had been a stand-alone bill.
How much of the $$ will be squandered to other pet projects rather than trees? I bet a bunch of it….. curious – what was the criteria used to split up the $$ as to how much each city would get?
Oh, what a grandiose plan to save the environment. Why then, at the same time has Concord hired its third company to build 30,000 homes and businesses at the former Concord navel weapon station. What a wonderful idea to improve the environment. Folks, you can’t make this stuff up. Gee, I wonder if it involves money…
Trees are nice but who is suppose to take care of them? They need water (who pays?), periodic trimming (who pays?), and especially, fall leaf raking (whatever lands in your yard – free to city). It can take me up to 3 or 4 weeks to get all the public tree leaves raked out of my back yard. Yard can will only hold so much at a time.
This is great. More trees to park under for shade.
And to get bird poop from ….
Wait, isn’t planting trees considered white supremacy???
Maybe use that money to hire some hard-boiled police officers that will break heads when they catch shoplifters, car thieves and drug dealers.
Good idea … but the better solution is this … get a DNA sample of inspector Callahan … get funding from the Muskateer … lab-grow a battalion of Dirty Harrys … deploy … problem solved #44Cal #MagnumForce
Also, don’t allow tree hacks to cut shade trees in half under the guise of “pruning”. I have seen many trees destroyed and ultimately killed by tree jack “pruning”. What a waste. Unlike a fruitless mulberry, most trees do not tolerate massive canopy reductions. Much of this issue is due to lack of knowledge of home owner as most tree hacks will do what the home owner asks and is willing to pay for, regardless of how it will impact the tree…or those unlucky enough to be underneath it when it dies and falls. A real arborist will not do this to a tree. Maybe an education campaign for tree owners? Otherwise, they will keep killing mature trees faster than you can plant and mature the new trees.
How long before PG&E mows them down?
If we can “combat” climate change can we also combat sex change? Both man-made, right?
Lol. This is funny. What would actually work to help climate change is to reduce people. To do that, maybe it would be good to stop paying degenerates to have kids that they cannot afford without stealing our taxes.
They’re working on getting rid of people . It’s called the Covid vaccine.
CORRECTION …
Yep … if people only knew … Willy G’s dad was a big time #EUGENICIST … and the apple don’t fall far from the tree … why do you think there was an avalanche of tv ads for 23 & Me … DNA Collection operation funded by WG & Co. … time to wake up folks … it’s all there in plain sight … just need to turn off the #BOOBTUBE and read something about something … #braindeadusacitizens #braindrainedusacitizens #whileyouweresleeping #socialengineering #nuffsaid
Where have all the orchards gone
Long time awaiting ….
Where did the orchards go?
If you live in a tract house in Concord or Walnut Creek, the orchard was directly beneath you.
@IKRISSY….Joni will answer you….
https://youtu.be/ratQlft_G5c?si=17kHywEqa02CoNZH
Best place to combat climate change is the ballot box.
Well…… it use to be we could rely on the vote, not anymore.
I have absolutely no faith left in an honest vote count, nationally, statewide or even locally.
From the President right on down thru Congress, DOJ, FBI, IRS all of it rife with fraud, corruption, lie upon lie, dereliction of duty, out & out criminal activity.
If the vote no longer works, America no longer works…… not as intended.
“Of the people, by the people, for the people” is lost.
We need to find another way to get it back.
Al gore lied to everyone. The inconvenient truth movie was a calculated lie. These psychopaths work over time planting seeds for their future plans. Had a whole generation of kids indoctrinated with the hole in the ozone layer before this. Acid rain for the generation prior. Anyone actually paying attention knows the game. It’s all political. It all leads to Neo-Feudalism. Progress is their progress.
Al Gore, John Kerry, et al…..
They’re all liars and will keep their hands in your pockets to continue enriching themselves.
Voting means nothing.
The outcome of each and every election is determined well before the vote takes place.
Your voice is gone.
We are expected to believe that a nation that can land a space craft on Mars , launch & fly a helicopter around the place sending photographs back to Earth, is incapable of developing the technology to change votes on a voting machine?
Anybody actually believe that?
But, but, but Joe got ten million more votes than Obama did while campaigning from his basement. There is only one way I can half believe that and that would be the lying left wing press we have today adding to lying bureaucrats. Face it we have a lot of stupid people in our country. People are voting who don’t even know which country we got our independence from or who was our first president or what two countries border the USA or if I had a hundred dollars and gave you 15% how much money would I have I given you. But they know a racist or a homophobe if they see one.
When and if this happens, I’d like for the public to be made aware of where these trees are planted. Where I live near the corner of Ygnacio and Clayton Road, our shopping center is a disaster with all the congestion, and they cut all the trees down a few years back making it a cement maze. (Would have been nice to keep the trees maybe?). Is Concord going to plant a field of trees somewhere only to mow them down later to make way for more housing? If they plant 500 trees in North Concord only to remove 500 in South Concord it’s all a sham. I’d like to see where we can track this…
Really? You think the city government wants to be held accountable for their actions?
Dream on.
Wanna have some fun? Ask a “climate changer” how many heat cycles the Earth has gone through, or how many ice ages, magnetic pole shifts, or how Africa was once a lush, green continent with lakes, rivers, forests, that I’m sure vanished because of too many goat and cow farts. Then, ask them to explain the great flood, or, the best one, ask them what they think about the hundreds of “discovered” ancient civilization sites that are under water, all around our globe.
Won’t accomplish one damn thing ……
And I doubt that Feinstein said anything – mentally incapable, just like slow joe and Harris the ho.
Prove me wrong.
This is only a dream. But I wish they had to report back to us how many trees actually got planted for all the money spent. And who got the money.
That’s good, but the city stopped maintaining the trees in our neighborhood and they are overgrown. What about making it safer to bike and walk in our neighborhoods and along Oak Grove? People go 40mph+ right next to kids walking home from school. Pushing people to walk and bike would be good for the environment. Also adding more parks?
“Pushing People”? That’s a bad idea…. people push back.
Maybe catching a bus or getting a ride to school would be a safer environment for the school kids.
This last couple weeks in Downtown Clayton along Marsh Creek Road near High St. they just cut down dozens of trees on several properties.
Remember, Trees are people too !!!
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or they could give that money back to the taxpayers
well I’m getting sick of just watching and reading all this about just trowing money away,thansk to me ,working very hard so you can take money off my paycheck taxes and just waist money on stuff that w don’t need,
Earlier this year, a lot of trees were cut down in Newhall Park and the surrounding area. I’m no expert on trees but they looked healthy. We figured they did it for fire prevention- same as cutting back the underbrush and wild grass. But now they’re spending a million dollars for more trees in Concord? Again, I’m no tree expert but it seems that a million dollars would buy a heck of a lot of trees….. Is this climate-inflation-fighting move basically another “bridge to nowhere” project.? Just keep going in circles.
And it’s also to “combat climate change.”
Not one thing will be done. I’m betting that the one million dollars will result in ~100 trees being planted with the rest going to some nameless bureaucracy.
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Extreme. Everything is extreme. we had extreme 90 degree heat this summer. we had extreme weather when those winds were blowing. We’ve had extreme hurricanes the last few years. What we have is dullards making extreme reaches to cause panic. $42 million to plant trees and “create” urban spaces? There are so many seedlings growing all over that could easily be transplanted by volunteers. We have plenty of intersections for side shows, no need for money for urban spaces. Sounds like some organizations or friends of these pols will have a nice Christmas this year. $42 million?
YOU JUST CAN’T FIX STUPID!
I’m guessing most or all of the environmental good from those trees will be entirely defeated by the environmental cost of developing housing on the former Concord Naval Weapons Station, including building it and the ongoing pollution from residential use and transportation,
How were the Great Lakes formed?….anyone?……anyone?……..they were formed by massive, massive blocks of ice melting because people were driving their cars too much.
Perhaps use that money for paper bag distribution to the climate change paranoid in order to control hyperventilation panic attacks.
Will these be drought-resistant trees? Why should I have to reduce outside watering if cities are going to plant water-thirsty trees.
When your city accepts the grant during a council meeting, ask for native climate-appropriate trees for your region. Or, to convert your current public canopy into 80-100 percent native tree.
Why?
And now… The Climate Corps !
Good, let them spend ALL their time & effort clearing brush & excess fuel in California forests!
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