Federal effort will focus on marginalized areas in all parts of country and aims to reduce extreme heat and benefit health
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    The US agriculture secretary, Tom Vilsack, will announce the $1.13bn in funding for 385 projects at an event on Thursday morning in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

    The tree planting efforts will be focused on marginalized areas in all 50 states as well as Washington DC, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and some tribal nations.

    In announcing the grants in Cedar Rapids, Vilsack will spotlight the eastern Iowa city of 135,000 people that lost thousands of trees during an extreme windstorm during the summer of 2020.

    Cedar Rapids has made the restoration of its tree canopy a priority since that storm, called a derecho, and will receive $6m in funding through the new grants.

    Other grant recipients include some of the nation’s largest cities, such as New York, Houston and Los Angeles, and much smaller communities, such as Tarpon Springs, Florida, and Hutchinson, Kansas.

    Brenda Mallory, chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, planned to join Vilsack at the Iowa event.

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