Fort Worth is receiving the last batch of federal dollars aimed at helping the city and the metroplex battle its pollution problem.
In a June 24 meeting, City Council members approved a contract amendment to receive a $380,000 federal grant issued through the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. The grant is intended to support Fort Worth’s air monitoring operations from June 1, 2025, to May 31, 2026.
Fort Worth leaders first entered an agreement with the state environmental commission in 2021, when the city first received half a million dollars in federal funding to participate in the Department of Homeland Security’s Whole Air Monitoring grant program. The environmental commission is the entity responsible for administering funds from the federal grant program throughout the state…