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Faith groups' environmental projects halted by Trump's climate funding freeze

The Stillmeadow Community Fellowship's summer camps face risks due to a funding freeze from President Donald Trump, impacting promised grants for environmental projects.
More than 300 faith organizations lost access to funds intended for urban forestry due to the freeze, affecting disadvantaged communities.
Despite a judge's order stating the funding freeze is likely unconstitutional, grant recipients report that funding remains paused.
Leaders from various faith organizations express frustration, stating it is "unconscionable" that environmental efforts are now viewed as political tools.

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The Presbyterian Outlook

Faith groups’ environmental projects halted by Trump’s climate funding freeze - The Presbyterian Outlook

More than 300 faith communities have lost access to grant funds that were intended to plant trees in disadvantaged urban communities, environmental faith leaders who managed the grants told RNS. The post Faith groups’ environmental projects halted by Trump’s climate funding freeze appeared first on The Presbyterian Outlook.

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National Catholic Reporter

Faith groups' environmental projects halted by Trump's climate funding freeze

(RNS) — In the more than five years that Stillmeadow Community Fellowship in Baltimore has worked with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service to rehabilitate the 10-acre forest on its urban land, what stands out to the Rev. Michael Martin is kids’ reactions to the “great things in (God’s) original architecture of nature.” Children who are unfamiliar with nature may get the “heebie-jeebies” when they first walk through the church’s w…

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Word&Way

Faith Groups' Environmental Projects Halted by Trump's Climate Funding Freeze

Despite a judge’s order on Feb. 10 — which called the spending freeze ‘likely unconstitutional’ and directed funds to resume — grant recipients said funding remains paused. The post Faith Groups’ Environmental Projects Halted by Trump’s Climate Funding Freeze appeared first on Word&Way.

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