Cities like Albany are getting more funding to plant trees in underserved areas.
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Interim Commissioner Sean Mahar was joined Friday by Mayor Kathy Sheehan for a tree planting outside Giffen Elementary School in Albany’s South End.
Mahar says DEC has an additional $5.4 million in federal Inflation Reduction Act funding to spend in communities to plant more trees, on the way to realizing Governor Kathy Hochul’s goal of planting 23 million trees by 2033…