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Gov. Maura Healey visits Chicopee school to mark Arbor Day, touts tree-planting programs and funding
Summary
Governor Maura Healey joined students at General John J. Stefanik Elementary School in Chicopee for an Arbor Day/Earth Week tree planting to celebrate the states Greening the Gateway Cities and Cooling Corridors programs, mark the programs 40,000th planted tree, and outline funding figures cited at the event.
Governor Maura Healey visited General John J. Stefanik Elementary School in Chicopee on Wednesday to celebrate Arbor Day and Earth Week with students and state officials, highlight the states tree-planting programs and mark what officials said was the programs 40,000th planted tree.
At the event, Healey thanked local leaders and educators and told students the visit was about trees, cooling and protecting their future. "A $160,000,000,000," she said when referring to what the state had received from the Biden administration for related clean-energy efforts, and added those funds would be used in part to expand solar and community-based projects.
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