I heard about this from a relative in the Southern US (NOT a Trump supporter).
Trump funding freeze could leave communities on their own as climate threats grow
By Michael Copley
Published February 12, 2025 at 5:30 AM EST
Excerpts: "The funding freeze is being felt across the U.S.
"A #Missouri school district couldn't pay for almost two dozen electric school buses it ordered to replace a fleet of diesel buses. In #SpringfieldMassachusetts, officials didn't know if the city would get money it was promised to #weatherize homes, remove #LeadPaint and #RepairRoads. #Oklahoma regulators warned $100 million in grant funding to plug abandoned #OilAndGas wells was in jeopardy. A #NorthCarolina official said the state risks losing out on more than $100 million in conservation projects that could protect communities from #floods and #wildfires. And in Kersey, Colo., officials had to hope the government would unfreeze money to remove an old grain elevator covered in #asbestos, a cancer-causing substance that's linked to the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans every year.
"'We wouldn't be able to move forward without it,' Susie Thielbert, a grant analyst for Kersey, told Colorado Public Radio about the grain-elevator project. 'We are a very small community.'"
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"Parts of West Virginia 'have been left behind' for decades, Crowe says, but money had started flowing in from the Biden-era laws that Trump's now targeting.
"'Their infrastructure is failing,' Crowe says. 'And without the federal government coming in to help support them, they're not going to be able to come up with that money on their own.'
"Similar concerns are rippling through the region, says Dana Kuhnline, senior program director at ReImagine Appalachia, an advocacy group."
Read more:
https://www.southcarolinapublicradio.org/2025-02-12/trump-funding-freeze-could-leave-communities-on-their-own-as-climate-threats-grow
#USPol #FundingFreeze #ClimateChange #Infrastructure #ClimateThreats
