LINCOLN- A total of $266,064 has been awarded to The Winnebago Tribe of Nerbaska to monitor its air quality. The grant is part of $53.4 million being distributed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to fund 132 air monitoring projects across 37 states. The goal of the projects is for underserved and historically marginalized communities to enhance their air quality as part of President Joe Biden’s Justice40 Initiative.

The Winnebago Tribe plans to use the grant to install equipment that will monitor meteorological conditions and air pollution at various locations throughout the Winnebago Tribal Nation. The data collected will be used to update emissions inventories to understand air quality issues within the Tribal Nation.

The air pollution monitoring projects are made possible by over $30 million in Inflation Reduction Act funds, which supplemented $20 million from the American Rescue Plan Act and enabled EPA to support 77 additional projects, more than twice the number of projects initially selected for funding.

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