SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom joined President Biden and a California Climate Action Corps volunteer in Palo Alto today to lift up the President’s announcement of more than $600 million in federal grant funding for climate resilience projects across the country.

President Biden also announced that California will receive $67 million in federal funding to help build power lines and transmission infrastructure, supporting the state’s transition to 100% clean electricity by 2045.

“California’s wildfires, heat waves, and extreme swings from drought to flooding show how climate change is impacting our communities. There is no better partner in the fight against climate change than President Biden, who is making unprecedented investments and approaching this crisis with urgency. This new federal funding will support our ongoing climate action to protect our coastal communities from rising oceans and build the clean energy we need,” said Governor Newsom.

 “Throughout our history, we’re the only nation in the world to come out of crisis stronger than we went into it. We’re doing it again here on the climate crisis. When I think of climate, I think of jobs. When I think of climate, I think of innovation. When I think of climate, I think of turning peril into progress,” said President Biden.