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Environment
fromTruthout
1 day ago

Communities Say Congress Broke Its Promise to Clean Up Abandoned Coal Mine Lands

A House bill would withdraw $500 million from 2021 abandoned mine cleanup funds, jeopardizing reclamation and water treatment projects in Appalachian states.
fromStreetsblog
3 months ago

Advocates: Congress Must Stop Trump From Illegally Holding Back Sustainable Transportation Bucks - Streetsblog USA

The authors of that law made a fatal error of putting a three-year expiration date on key programs that benefit people outside cars. That sell-by date typically would have been morethan enough time to finalize grant agreements between the feds and communities, but with Trump weaponizing government bureaucracy, the Campaign says his administration is simply running out the clock on programs it doesn't like, until the final deadline arrives when federal fiscal year ends on Sept. 30 and wipes the money out.
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