{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://carson.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-carson-statement-termination-indianapolis-airport-grant", "Congressman Carson Statement on Termination of Indianapolis Airport Grant", "2025-10-07", "2025", "2025-10", "Democrat", "House", "IN", "Andr\u00e9 Carson", "C001072", "carson.house.gov", "carson", "https://carson.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "INDIANAPOLIS\u2014Today, Congressman Andr\u00e9 Carson (IN-07) \u2013 a Senior Member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee \u2013 released a statement in response to the Trump administration\u2019s plan to terminate almost $37 million in clean energy infrastructure grants nationwide, including a $6.7 million grant for the Indianapolis International Airport (IND).\n\nCongressman Carson was notified that the Federal Aviation Administration is planning to terminate the Indianapolis grant because it \u201cdoes not align with the administration\u2019s priorities.\u201d The Trump administration has previously targeted grants that contain key words like sustainable, solar, green, electric, zero, emissions, climate, and resilient.\n\nThis grant was originally awarded for Fiscal Year 2023 to IND\u2019s solar power battery storage facility \u2013 the largest airport-based solar farm in the world \u2013 to support the airport\u2019s north airfield electrical vault and provide maintenance and improvements for safe operations.\n\nCongressman Carson made the following statement:\n\n\u201cThe Trump administration is taking money away from Indianapolis to score cheap political points in Washington.\n\n\u201cThe Trump administration would have you believe this is a far left, pie-in-the-sky project with no track record. That couldn\u2019t be further from the truth. The IND Solar Farm was first launched in 2014 with the support of Republican Mayor Greg Ballard. Republicans and Democrats have long supported this project because it is economically viable and environmentally intelligent. It provides renewable energy to the electric grid, lowers emissions, improves air quality, and lowers the airport\u2019s operating costs. The IND Solar Farm is the largest in the world and was even featured as a model project in testimony before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee\u2019s Aviation Subcommittee.\n\n\u201cInfrastructure should not be partisan. There are no Democratic or Republican bridges, roads, or airports. Clean solar energy serves everyone, especially through the Indianapolis Airport solar farm.\n\n\u201cEspecially in the midst of a government shutdown \u2013 where many air traffic controllers and aviation safety personnel are working without pay or furloughed \u2013 this announcement is a blow to the hardworking aviation professionals who keeps our skies the safest in the world.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s frustrating to watch the incompetence of this administration as they search for \u2018woke\u2019 words in program titles without any understanding of how government works or the benefits of the programs they\u2019re slashing. This funding belongs to Indianapolis \u2013 not Trump.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:32:54Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://carson.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-carson-statement-termination-indianapolis-airport-grant"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.3049750123172998, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}