The federal government has pulled funding for at least 21 projects related to farming, food systems, and environmental justice to comply with one of Trump’s early executive orders.
In a piece for Civil Eats, Riley Ramirez lists 21 climate and resilience-related projects cancelled by the Trump EPA.
These projects include geothermal greenhouses in California’s Coachella Valley, urban gardens in Denver, composting programs in Waco, among others. “The organizations guiding these projects now face a significant loss of funding, ranging from $155,000 to $20 million each, according to federal documents obtained by Civil Eats through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.” The funding was awarded through several grant programs including the Community Change Grant Program, the Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving Cooperative Agreement Program, and the Environmental Justice Government-to-Government Program.
The EPA cited the Biden administration’s “radical agenda of wasteful DEI programs and ‘environmental justice’ preferencing” as the reason for canceling the grants.
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