The White House has set a goal of reaching a carbon-free grid by 2050, the lynchpin to this plan? Tax credits, lots of them. Last year’s Inflation Reduction Act committed over $250 billion in tax credits to jumpstart the country’s clean energy transition. Harvest Public Media’s Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco has more about how the surge in funding could mainstream carbon capture technology.
Plus more on these stories:
- A man arrested after a shooting in an Old Town nightclub has been released from custody.
- The Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission is coming to Wichita next week to decide where a new historic horse racing facility will be built in Sedgwick County.
- Local and federal agencies are working together to get homeless veterans into housing.
- A new program through Wichita State University is aimed at addressing the shortage of teachers in special education and elementary classrooms.
- A Kansas audit found larger counties have better election security in place than smaller counties.
- A new mobile food pantry is opening for both English and Spanish speakers at Evergreen park.
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