Local Environmental Groups Are Still Reeling from Trump’s DOGE Cuts

Local environmental groups in Texas are still reeling from Trump's DOGE cuts

Since last year, the EPA has cut millions of dollars in grants previously awarded for environmental initiatives in Texas during the Biden administration.

Local Environmental Groups Are Still Reeling from Trump’s DOGE Cuts

Toward the end of last February, as a chilly Dallas winter began to warm into a balmy Texas spring, Caleb Roberts hopped online to transfer federal funds to a local bank account. Roberts is the executive director of Downwinders at Risk, a Dallas-based nonprofit devoted to clean air advocacy. After eight months of bureaucratic red tape, the organization finally had access to the half-a-million dollars in federal grant funding they had been awarde…