Kilmartin to announce $500K grant to improve energy efficiency

R.I. ATTORNEY General Peter F. Kilmartin is expected to announce a $500,000 grant Thursday afternoon to the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative to help address energy efficiency, weatherization and indoor air quality issues in homes of low-income families in Rhode Island. / COURTESY R.I. ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE
R.I. ATTORNEY General Peter F. Kilmartin is expected to announce a $500,000 grant Thursday afternoon to the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative to help address energy efficiency, weatherization and indoor air quality issues in homes of low-income families in Rhode Island. / COURTESY R.I. ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE

PROVIDENCE – Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin is expected to announce a $500,000 grant to the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative to help address energy efficiency, weatherization and indoor air quality issues in homes of low-income families in Rhode Island.
Kilmartin is slated to announce the grant during a Thursday afternoon press conference at Community College of Rhode Island’s Providence campus. In addition to representatives from the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative, Providence Mayor Angel Taveras, as well as Rhode Island Housing representatives, state officials and community leaders are expected to be in attendance.
The grant, which will benefit at least 135 low-income families in Rhode Island’s urban communities, was made possible from settlement funds from a 2007 court order resulting from a lawsuit brought by the R.I. Attorney General’s Office, other states and the federal government against American Electric Power Service Corp.
Also attending the press conference will be Miledya Reyes, whose triple-decker home at 40 Superior St. in Providence will receive weatherization and energy efficiency assistance, including the purchase of a new boiler for one of the units, through the grant money.

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