Inside Climate News: “Federal Grant Complexity Stymies the Energy Transition in Wyoming Coal Country, New Report Finds”
This piece discusses in depth a recent RFF report about the energy transition in Wyoming.
A report released this month by Resources for the Future found that the complexity of federal grant applications for energy transition projects hinders Wyoming coal communities’ ability to access funds that could prove critical to the transformation of local energy economies.
While the report by the Washington, DC-based nonpartisan, nonprofit research firm also found that local stakeholders and federal officials have been able to form productive working relationships despite political differences and varying degrees of commitment to clean energy, it found a variety of factors suppressing the state’s coal communities’ appetites for federal funding to transform their economies.
