Trump administration locks MPCA out of $200 million in federal grants
"The Trump administration has locked Minnesota out of $200 million in federal grants awarded to the state last year for community-based climate projects, leaving projects in limbo and underscoring the uncertainty and disruption unleashed by Trump’s early budget cutting."
"This funding will have a transformational impact on Minnesota, from farms to food shelves across the state,” Katrina Kessler, commissioner of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, said at the time. “This investment will reduce greenhouse gasses while improving air quality, advancing new technologies, building food security and sovereignty, and directing benefits to low-income residents and communities of color.”
Now, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency says the Trump administration has locked them out of those funds, and projects that had been planning on using the funding to get off the ground are scrambling to find alternatives."