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Federal funding freeze

In Budget Crunch, New Jersey Strips Clean Energy Fund in Near-Record ‘Raid’

Lawmakers diverted $190 million, mostly to New Jersey Transit, despite promises to protect climate funds.

By Rambo Talabong

People exit a New Jersey Transit PATH train on May 19 in Hoboken, N.J. Credit: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
Farmers participate in a regenerative agriculture workshop on May 31, 2022, in Cimarron, N.M. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Federal Judge Orders Trump Administration to Restore Environmental Grant Funding

By Amy Green

A view of the Marathon Petroleum Refinery in Detroit. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Michigan Researcher’s Work on Air Pollution and Racial Inequities Caught in Funding Freeze at National Science Foundation

By Siri Chilukuri

The Baltimore City Department of Public Works distributes water in 2022 after E. coli bacteria was found in local drinking water. Baltimore is one of the cities awarded an environmental justice grant that the EPA plans to terminate. Among the grant's aims: water quality testing. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

EPA Funding Cuts Target Disadvantaged Communities, Analysis Shows

By Marianne Lavelle, Peter Aldhous

President Donald Trump speaks alongside coal miners before signing executive orders about coal production at the White House on April 8 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images

In His First 100 Days, Trump Launched an ‘All-Out Assault’ on the Environment

By Kiley Bense, Bob Berwyn, Dennis Pillion, Georgina Gustin, Jake Bolster, Marianne Lavelle, Wyatt Myskow

A nonprofit helping farmers adopt sustaibable practices in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions is among the plaintiffs suing the Trump administration over its funding freeze. Credit: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

Judge Asks Trump Administration for More Evidence That Funding Freeze Is Constitutional

By Amy Green

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin speaks during a press event at the agency’s headquarters on Feb. 18. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

EPA Administrator Defends Sweeping Grant Terminations Amid Legal Blowback

By Aman Azhar

Ohio faced its most severe drought in a century in 2024. Credit: Seth Herald/NurPhoto via Getty Images

After Severe Drought and Storms, Ohio Farmers Fear for Long-Term Soil Health

By Anika Jane Beamer

A Federal Emergency Management Agency agent works with a search and recovery team to check charred buildings and cars in the aftermath of the Maui wildfires in Lahaina, Hawaii, on Aug. 18, 2023. Credit: Yuki Iwamura/AFP via Getty Images

Nearly Half of the Country’s Attorneys General Make Legal Effort to Restore FEMA Funds

By Arcelia Martin

Al Krupski, owner of Krupski Farms in Peconic, N.Y., holds dry soil in one of his pumpkin fields on Nov. 19, 2024, as Long Island undergoes a three-month drought. Credit: Steve Pfost/Newsday RM via Getty Images

Small New York Farms Suffer as Federal Funds Freeze

By Lauren Dalban

What 30 Years of Fighting for Environmental Justice Looks Like in One Community

By Bhabna Banerjee

The Soybean Innovation Lab supported tests of soybean varieties in Malawi and other parts of Africa to create a database farmers could access. Credit: Soybean Innovation Lab

The Soybean Innovation Lab Is Set to Close in April After Trump Cuts

By Susan Cosier

Laura Beth Resnick’s Butterbee Farm is among thousands of recipients of funding from the Rural Energy for America Program. Credit: LA Birdie Photography

Farmers and Community Groups Sue Trump and the USDA, Seeking Funds They Were Promised

By Georgina Gustin

Congressmembers speak to a crowd during a demonstration in front of the EPA headquarters on Feb. 6 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Al Drago/Getty Images

EPA Freezes, Then Terminates, Multi-Billion Dollar Climate Grants, Scuttling Projects and Triggering Lawsuits

By Aman Azhar

Roofing material is unloaded at the Port of Providence in Rhode Island. Credit: Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images

In Providence, Trump’s EPA Freeze Leaves People’s Port Authority in Limbo

By Julia Vaz

The entrance to the Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Va. Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images

Future of Funding for Military’s Climate Change Plans Caught Up in Fury of Trump Cuts

By Charles Paullin

Cheridyn Egan washes a collard green at Borderlands Restoration Network’s Borderlands Earth Care Center on March 3 in Patagonia, Ariz. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

In Arizona’s Famed Sky Islands, Trump Administration’s Funding Freeze Stalls Crucial Conservation Work

By Wyatt Myskow

Workers install solar panels for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s solar and battery storage plant in the Mojave Desert of Kern County on Nov. 25, 2024. Credit: Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Federal Judge Blocks Trump Administration’s Funding Freeze for Climate Work. Will the White House Comply?

By Wyatt Myskow

Hundreds of demonstrators gather to protest mass firings by the Trump administration outside the NOAA headquarters on March 3 in Silver Spring, Md. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Scientists Are Rising Up to Resist Trump Policies

By Bob Berwyn

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