Joe Biden pledges to give $75 million to move three local towns
These populations are threatened by climate change
US President Joe Biden’s administration will help finance the relocation of three tribal communities facing urgent threats from climate change. The three tribes will receive $75 million divided equally among them, Biden announced Wednesday.
All are located along coastal areas and rivers in the states of Alaska and Washington. The money will finance the move of key buildings and residential homes to higher ground, away from floodwaters. Biden made the funding announcement at the White House during the Department of the Interior’s Summit of Tribal Nations.
In his remarks, he said that tribes receiving funds are “at risk of being swept away”. The money will help “move, in some cases, entire communities back to safer ground.” Funding recipients are Newtok Village and the Native Village of Napakiak in southwest Alaska, and the Quinault Indian Nation, located on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state.