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Press ReleasesOctober 23, 2009 MCCASKILL GRANT ANNOUNCEMENT: More than $700,000 in federal grant money awarded to Missouri for energy improvements, green jobs
U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill announced today that Christian and Franklin counties have been awarded a total of $705,200 in federal grant money through the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) awards program. The money was made available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). According to the DOE, EECBG funds are awarded to help communities improve their energy efficiency, reduce their energy use and fossil fuel emissions and create green jobs locally. Christian and Franklin counties are receiving the following:
Funding to states and localities through the economic recovery package will be allocated through existing federal programs like these, rather than earmarks, in order to ensure prompt distribution and better accountability. Local projects receive funds from these grants by following the process set up by each program. During Congressional consideration of the economic recovery bill, McCaskill worked to put additional accountability measures in place. McCaskill believes that federal grants and loans are a positive alternative to earmarks, which in the past have frequently had too little accountability. Competitive merit and need based federal grants and low-interest government loans bring federal assistance to Missouri in an honest and fiscally responsible manner.
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