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Under Trump, the Department of Agriculture Has Ditched Conservation and Climate Efforts

An Inside Climate News analysis found the department lost 21 percent of its workforce in 2025. Those cuts have thrown it into disarray.

By Georgina Gustin, Peter Aldhous

 USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service staff visits farmers in Missouri on June 4, 2025. Credit: Jenny Long/NRCS
A view of the south branch of the Chicago River with downtown Chicago in the background. Credit: Raymond Boyd/Getty Images

After a Hard Year for Environmental Justice, Chicago Communities Are Picking Up the Pieces

By Amber X. Chen
President Donald Trump signs a series of executive orders at the White House on Jan. 20 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Breach of Contract or Constitutional Crisis?

By Lisa Sorg
Rooftop solar panels are installed on a home in Kensington, Md., on July 3. Credit: Maansi Srivastava/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Federal Rooftop Solar Grants Are on the Chopping Block. Here’s Who Would Get Hurt

By Dan Gearino
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin testifies before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on May 20 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

A Class-Action Lawsuit Aims to Restore Climate and Environmental Grants

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
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
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
Workers smooth cement during the construction of the Sixth Street Bridge in Los Angeles on April 26, 2022. Credit: Gary Leonard/Getty Images

EPA Decimates Grant Program Aimed at Measuring and Reducing Construction Material Emissions

By Dan Gearino
A view of the Moriah Energy Center construction site on Aug. 12, 2024 in Person County N.C., where BREDL is considering setting up an air monitoring station. Credit: Lisa Sorg for Inside Climate News/The Assembly

How the Money Stopped at One Environmental Nonprofit, Causing Hardship and Alarm

By Lisa Sorg
A view of an open-pit coal mine in the Powder River Basin outside of Gillette, Wyo. Credit: Carol M. Highsmith/Library of Congress

Federal Grant Complexity Stymies the Energy Transition in Wyoming Coal Country, New Report Finds

By Jake Bolster
An oil pumpjack is seen near a field of wind turbines in Nolan, Texas. One of the new grants will support a clean energy reporter in Texas, making ICN’s Texas bureau its largest. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

With $800,000 in New Grants, Inside Climate News to Expand Local Environmental Journalism

By ICN Editors
Inside Climate News reporter Liza Gross (right) takes the handoff of a cougar kitten from Caitlin Kupar, of Panthera, a global wild cat conservation organization, while accompanying biologists with the organization's Olympic Cougar Project to a cougar den on the Olympic Peninsula. Credit: Michael Kodas/Inside Climate News

A Vote of Confidence for Environmental Journalism: Inside Climate News Receives $725,000 in New Grants

By ICN Editors
A heat pump is installed at a home in Standish, Maine. Credit: Brianna Soukup/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

New Federal Housing Grants Are a Win for Climate Change and Environmental Justice

By Kristoffer Tigue
A Tesla charging station is seen at a travel plaza off Interstate-95 in Cecil County, Maryland. One of the funded projects includes efforts to deploy new electric vehicle charging stations along the Interstate-95 corridor in New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware and Maryland. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

New Federal Grants Could Slash U.S. Climate Emissions by Nearly 1 Billion Metric Tons Through 2050

By Kristoffer Tigue, Marianne Lavelle
The Bonneville Environmental Foundation will administer federal grants to Idaho, Montana and Wyoming under the new Solar for All Program. Credit: Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Biden Administration Awards Wyoming $30 Million From New ‘Solar for All’ Grant

By Jake Bolster
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (right) and President Joe Biden (center) speak with local residents impacted by Hurricane Ian in Fort Myers, Fla. Credit: Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images

Florida Says No to Federal Funding Aimed at Greenhouse Gas Emissions

By Amy Green
GRID Alternatives is a leading recipient of grants from the federal Solar for All program announced on Monday. The organization installs solar systems, primarily for low-income households, as shown in this October 2023 install in Colorado. Credit: GRID Alternatives

IRA’s Solar for All Program Will Install Nearly 1 Million Systems in US

By Dan Gearino

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