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San Francisco commission approves environmental justice and 0‑waste grants totaling hundreds of thousands
Summary
The Commission on the Environment approved a set of environmental justice building‑decarbonization grants and a separate package of 0‑waste grants, awarding $720,000 to 10 organizations from requests totaling more than $2.7 million and approving multiple two‑year projects focused on electrification, health, and reuse.
The San Francisco Commission on the Environment on March 28 approved a package of outgoing grants that the department says will support neighborhood‑scale building electrification pilots and several 0‑waste programs across the city.
Cindy Comerford, the department's climate program manager, told the commission the Environmental Justice grant cohort will focus on building decarbonization. "We were fortunate enough this year to reactivate our environmental justice grant program and for this first cohort we decided to focus on building decarbonization," Comerford said. She named Emerald Cities Collaborative as a grantee that received…
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