EPA gives a nearly $20 million grant to a Black college to buy electric bikes for 300 families
An analyst with the Reason Foundation said buying electric bikes for a small number of families was not an appropriate use of federal funding.
(The Center Square) –
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it was giving a private, historically black university in New Orleans a $19.9 million grant, some of which will be used to buy electric bikes for 300 families.
Dillard University will get the $19 million federal grant and the city of New Orleans will get a $50 million federal grant to combat a “climate crisis.”
Marc Scribner, a senior transportation policy analyst with the Reason Foundation, said buying electric bikes for a small number of families was not an appropriate use of federal funding. Scribner said the federal government should be more focused on big-picture solutions.
He said the electric bikes, which range in price from $400 to $1,800, would have an “imperceptible” impact on the climate.
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