Innovation on ice: How DOGE derailed an SBA tech program

Innovation on ice: How DOGE derailed an SBA tech program

When the natural gas and coal industries around Farmington, N.M., consolidated, contracted and left the rural region in “a death spiral” at the turn of the decade, a group of energy technology experts looked to Washington for help. With Hyperion Technologies, that team created an organization where startups in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah would band together and — with some federal backing — establish the Four Corners region as the cou…