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Trump funding freeze could leave communities on their own as climate threats grow

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Removing lead paint and pipes. Cleaning up contaminated land. Monitoring pollution. Making houses more energy efficient. Installing solar panels in low-income neighborhoods. Those are some of the projects across the country that were cut off from federal funding when the Trump administration paused spending approved earlier by Congress.

The sweeping move is part of President Trump’s plan to roll back environmental and climate change initiatives that started under former President Biden.

Federal judges intervened, issuing temporary restraining orders that prohibited the Trump administration from carrying out the funding freeze. But grant recipients, contractors and activists say promised government money has been held back even after the courts stepped in, throwing into doubt the government’s standing as a reliable partner in protecting human health and the environment.

“Undermining the trust in the federal government may actually be the real point of this,” says Zara Ahmed, vice president of policy and advisory operations at Carbon Direct, which helps companies, governments and other organizations cut their carbon emissions.

First off, the first four things in the first paragraph have nothing to do with the climate scam. The 5th is just a way to piss away money, because the solar panels get broken. Also, most of the energy from them gets put back in the grid, not to help the low income folks in their government housing projects. Second, notice that this is all about increasing central government power, and the Warmists are very unhappy when power is taken away from the government. Why does Ahmed think people trust government in the first place?

Not too get too deep, but, this exposes a huge problem: the federal government shouldn’t be this powerful and controlling. If states and communities want to Do Something, have at it. It’s not a federal government problem. And the more the feds do the more powerful they become. Which is what the cult wants.

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 Springfield, Mass., officials didn’t know if the city would get money it was promised to weatherize homes, remove lead paint and repair roads. Oklahoma regulators warned $100 million in grant funding to plug abandoned oil and gas wells was in jeopardy. A North Carolina 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.”

Eventually, a lot of this money will be dispersed, as DOGE and the Trump folks figure out which project are mule fritters and which are good. But, again, this is way too much reliance on Los Federales to fix everything.

One group that’s been waiting on funding is Collaborative Earth. The organization is helping Native American tribes in Oklahoma develop more sustainable grazing practices and small farmers in the southeast reforest waterways to prevent flooding and store carbon pollution.

“It’s strange that the payment of an invoice could make you wonder about the future of a democracy, but that’s exactly what it feels like,” says Aaron Hirsh, organization lead at Collaborative Earth.

Sounds like a good way to take tax payer funds and hook up supporters. How much of this money that goes to non-government groups makes it to the projects and people it’s supposed to? But, you know, “democracy” happened. Trump won. He said he would do this stuff.