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Trump’s Grant Terminations Upheld by Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals

Still, some plaintiffs remain hopeful that they can get their funding restored by arguing that Trump’s elimination of entire grant programs approved by Congress, in areas like environmental justice, is unconstitutional.

By Lisa Sorg

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin (C) and Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought (L), the architects of the Trump administration's climate and environmental justice grant terminations, at a 911 ceremony in Arlington, Virginia. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
U.S. President Joe Biden and Catherine Coleman Flowers, founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, arrive for an event at the White House on April 21, 2023. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Trump Announces ‘Termination’ of ‘Illegal DEI’ Settlement Over Raw Sewage in Poor, Majority-Black Alabama Communities

By Lee Hedgepeth, Dennis Pillion

A visitor carries an American flag at the Viola Liuzzo memorial on the side of U.S. Highway 80 in Lowndes County, Alabama, in March 2015. Viola Liuzzo was a civil rights activist who was shot and killed by the Ku Klux Klan while shuttling fellow activists to the Montgomery airport during the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Alabama Black Belt Becomes Environmental Justice Test Case: Is Sanitation a Civil Right?

By Dennis Pillion, AL.com

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