The New York Times

This past spring, Prof. J. Philip Thompson and MIT lecturer Elisabeth Reynolds taught a class at MIT that sent students to work with local officials across the country to help identify available federal funds for climate change mitigation, reports Farah Stockman for The New York Times. “We have to figure out how to use it. Because if we don’t, wealthy communities will go green, and low-income communities will stay brown,” says Thompson of the need to ensure climate change funds are distributed equitably. “Unless we do something intentionally to make sure that it is fair, it will bypass poor communities.”