🌎DOE and EPA slash billions from renewable energy programs
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Trump administration announced sweeping cuts to federal clean energy and climate programs on February 2, 2025, slashing billions in renewable energy funding, climate research, and environmental protections. The cuts affect local community projects and America's energy future while eliminating federal climate leadership.
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Why This Matters
💰 Bipartisan infrastructure law funding vanishes despite congressional authorization
Congress allocated $15 billion for carbon capture and renewable energy through legislation passed with Republican votes. Trump's budget proposal unilaterally cancels authorized spending, demonstrating how executive budget powers can nullify legislative decisions without formal repeal votes.
📉 EPA workforce faces 65% reduction while climate emergencies accelerate
Lee Zeldin plans to eliminate nearly two-thirds of environmental protection staff precisely when extreme weather events require more government response. The timing creates a dangerous gap between growing climate risks and shrinking federal capacity to monitor and respond to environmental threats.
🌪️ FEMA terminates resilience grants while disasters multiply
The BRIC program cancellation affects 400 applications totaling billions in disaster preparation funding. Communities lose flood protection, wildfire mitigation, and infrastructure hardening projects just as climate change intensifies the storms and disasters these programs were designed to prevent.
⚖️ Twenty state attorneys general sue to protect climate programs from federal cuts
The unprecedented legal challenge by half the states signals constitutional crisis over federal environmental authority. State governments must now choose between protecting their residents from climate impacts and maintaining cooperative federalism with a hostile federal administration.
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Which federal program that produces the National Climate Assessment had its funding cancelled?
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Which emergency preparedness program was terminated by FEMA in April 2025?
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How many state attorneys general sued the Trump administration over its cuts to key programs, including LIHEAP?
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Which grant funding for abandoned oil and gas wells was reported to be in jeopardy in Oklahoma?
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How much in Environmental and Climate Justice grants did the EPA cancel in March 2025?
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Which constitutional article gives Congress, not the president, the "power of the purse"?
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