纽约市长佐赫兰·马姆达尼在波多黎各与该岛非营利组织会面，官员们同时宣布了一项28万美元的合作计划，以帮助这一美国属地应对紧急状况。
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has met with nonprofits in Puerto Rico as officials announced a $280,000 partnership to help the U.S. territory confront emergencies.
达尼卡·科托 发自波多黎各圣胡安——纽约市长佐赫兰·马姆达尼周五在波多黎各与多家非营利组织会面，官员们同时宣布了一项28万美元的合作计划，以帮助这一美国属地应对紧急状况。
DÁNICA COTO SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani met with nonprofits in Puerto Rico on Friday as officials announced a $280,000 partnership to help the U.S. territory confront emergencies.
拉美裔联合会与纽约联邦住房贷款银行之间的这项合作，正值波多黎各在努力从飓风玛丽亚及其他灾难中重建之际，该岛长期受困于停电和水资源间歇性短缺。
The partnership between Hispanic Federation and the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York comes as Puerto Rico struggles with chronic power outages and intermittent water shortages while it tries to rebuild from Hurricane Maria and other disasters.
非营利组织拉美裔联合会表示，这笔资金将为全岛10个由社区运营的韧性中心配备更强的储水能力；其中一些中心还将获得雨水收集系统、厨房设施以及带电池储能的太阳能发电设备。
The nonprofit Hispanic Federation said the money would equip 10 community-run resiliency hubs across the island with increased water storage capacity; some also would receive rain-collection systems, kitchen infrastructure and solar power with battery storage.
“波多黎各的家庭所经历的灾难，比任何人本该承受的都多，”拉美裔联合会总裁兼首席执行官弗兰基·米兰达说。
“Puerto Rico’s families have lived through more disasters than anyone should have to,” said Frankie Miranda, president and CEO of Hispanic Federation.
官员们表示，纽约联邦住房贷款银行为此出资21万美元，拉美裔联合会另外筹集了7万美元。
The Federal Home Loan Bank of New York is contributing $210,000 to the effort while Hispanic Federation raised an additional $70,000, officials said.
“关于气候变化和环境正义的讨论，对我们社区的福祉和未来至关重要，”纽约州州长凯西·霍楚尔说。
“Conversations about climate change and environmental justice are essential to the wellbeing and future of our communities,” said New York Gov. Kathy Hochul.
她和马姆达尼是正在波多黎各参加为期四天的年度会议的纽约州政府官员之一。
She and Mamdani are among a group of New York government officials in Puerto Rico for a four-day, annual conference.
这一宣布发出前数月，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普的政府取消了波多黎各的一些太阳能项目，这些项目本应帮助数千个低收入家庭。其中一个项目价值4亿美元，原计划在低收入家庭和有医疗需求者的住所安装太阳能和电池储能系统。
The announcement comes months after the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump canceled solar projects in Puerto Rico that were supposed to help thousands of low-income families. One project, worth $400 million, would have seen the installation of solar and battery storage systems in low-income homes and those with medical needs.
美国能源部表示，原定用于太阳能项目的资金将转而用于帮助维护波多黎各摇摇欲坠的电网，该电网在2017年9月被飓风玛丽亚摧毁。然而，由于缺乏维护和投资，该电网本已十分脆弱。
The U.S. Department of Energy has said the money initially slated for solar projects would instead be used to help maintain Puerto Rico’s crumbling power grid, which was razed by Hurricane Maria in September 2017. The grid, however, was already weakened given a lack of maintenance and investment.
上周，六名波多黎各居民起诉美国能源部及其部长克里斯·赖特，此前一项耗资10亿美元的联邦资助项目被取消，该项目旨在为最需要的人提供太阳能和电池储能。
Last week, six Puerto Rico residents sued the U.S. Energy Department and its secretary, Chris Wright, following the scrapping of a $1 billion federally funded program to provide solar power and battery storage to those who most needed it.
诉讼称：“此类系统的成本对大多数波多黎各人来说仍然遥不可及。”
“The cost of such systems remains out of reach for the majority of Puerto Ricans,” the lawsuit stated.
起诉人之一是63岁的阿雷西沃居民伊莱亚娜·里奥斯，她患有糖尿病，需要冷藏胰岛素。与此同时，她的儿子患有哮喘，需要使用雾化器，而雾化器需要电力。
Among those suing is 63-year-old Arecibo resident Ileana Ríos, who is diabetic and needs to refrigerate her insulin. Meanwhile, her son has asthma and needs to use a nebulizer, which requires electricity.
诉讼指出，里奥斯“在天气稳定时经常断电，在风暴期间总是断电，有时长达数周”。其他起诉居民也患有严重的健康问题，需要依赖电力的设备或药物。诉讼请求法官命令美国能源部恢复该拨款计划，并采取其他措施。美国能源部未立即回应置评请求。
The lawsuit noted that Ríos “regularly loses power when the weather is stable and always loses power during storms, sometimes for several weeks at a time.”The other residents who sued also have serious health conditions and need equipment or medications that rely on electricity. The lawsuit requests that a judge order the U.S. Energy Department to reinstate the grant program, among other things. The U.S. Department of Energy did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
资金的损失对非营利组织和其他方面造成了打击，他们在等待特朗普政府关于是否以及如何继续该计划的决定期间，经历了数月的担忧和困惑。
The funding loss has been a blow to nonprofits and others who faced months of uncertainty and confusion as they awaited the Trump administration’s decision on whether and how it would continue the program.
“我们有很多不确定性……有时感觉就像我们在对牛弹琴，”能源韧性非营利组织Barrio Eléctrico的运营总监西贝尔·罗德里格斯·德尔瓦列说，该组织是美国能源部项目的一部分。
“We had a lot of uncertainty. ... At some points it just felt like we were talking to no one,” said Sybelle Rodriguez del Valle, director of operations at the energy resilience nonprofit Barrio Eléctrico, which was part of the U.S. Energy Department program.
Barrio Eléctrico 在波多黎各 12 个自治市为 500 多个家庭提供电力服务，原本有望利用联邦项目资金为 1,200 个家庭提供有韧性的能源。在项目结束前，它只完成了约三分之一的项目，损失了估计 1,600 万至 2,000 万美元的资金。
Barrio Eléctrico provides electric service to more than 500 families across 12 municipalities in Puerto Rico and was poised to provide resilient energy for 1,200 families with funds from the federal program. It had only completed about one-third of its projects before the program ended, losing an estimated $16 million to $20 million in funding.