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An $18M grant would have drastically reduced food waste. Then the EPA cut it


The Rhode Island project to create local jobs, launch compost hubs, and reduce emissions was years in the making.

Ella Kilpatrick Kotner chops up food scraps on top of a bed of leaves and wood chips at Groundwork RI’s garden in Providence, Rhode Island, in February. Now, in his second term, President Trump has made no secret of the fact that his administration is working to unravel climate action and justice-oriented programs across the government — and make it harder for state initiatives to pick up the slack. Zealan Hoover, a former senior adviser to President Joe Biden’s EPA Administrator Michael Regan, doesn’t believe that Trump is specifically targeting food-waste initiatives, but rather environmental justice programs in their entirety.

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