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More construction, maybe less solar. South Florida’s climate action plan under Trump

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Monroe County has seven projects underway to elevate roads in the Florida Keys , keeping them dry even as rising sea levels threaten to leave them permanently underwater.

Florida has given local governments $1.55 billion to fund nearly 700 projects that help communities adapt to climate change.

With President Donald Trump poised to begin his second term next month , officials in South Florida are wondering whether that flow of federal money will keep coming.

The biggest pot of money in Florida is $346 million from the Biden administration’s Infrastructure Reduction Act .

Florida hopes to have a pilot project up and running by the first quarter of next year .

“We are mopping up the floor, and we never turn off the faucet,” an expert says.

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