Council approves $18.9M solar farm project using EPA grant and tax-credit financing Cuyahoga County Council adopted a substituted resolution authorizing up to $18.9 million for a 6.5 MW solar farm in Brooklyn, Ohio, funded primarily by a 60% EPA climate grant and 40% via federal tax-credit mechanisms; council and public-works staff said the project will expand the county's existing solar arrays and aid landfill remediation.

Cuyahoga County is set to transform a contaminated landfill into a thriving 6.5 MW solar farm with an $18.9 million investment fueled by EPA grants and tax credits!

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Votes at a glance: agenda, consent items, minutes, landfill resolution, and closed session certification The board approved the meeting agenda, approved the consent agenda (a VDFP mini grant application and a lease amendment), approved corrected minutes, adopted Resolution R102825‑03 to authorize landfill remediation bidding, and approved a closed‑session certification after meeting in closed session on a hotel project.

The Bedford County Board of Supervisors took significant steps this week, including approving a mini grant for fire services and beginning a major landfill remediation project.

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Zygophyllum coccineum L. (A) and Leptadenia pyrotechnica (B) naturally growing in the landfill experimental site

Indigenous plants have potential to be used in phytoremediation and phytostabilization to extract deleterious heavy metals from contaminated landfill soils. doi.org/10.21273/HOR...

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