GASTONIA, N.C. — North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper joined representatives from the Biden administration and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to make a climate announcement in Gastonia Friday.
Mitch Landrieu, who is a White House senior advisor to the president and infrastructure coordinator, along with FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell, announced "significant funding opportunities that deliver on the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to climate resilience nationwide," FEMA said in a news announcement Thursday ahead of the event.
The funding is expected to be part of the bipartisan infrastructure bill, which was signed into law in November and provides a trillion dollars to projects.
The announcement Friday included a "tour of a nature-based infrastructure project in Gastonia that recently received funding for climate resilience."
Gastonia Mayor Walker Reid was also in attendance.
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