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The pause affects billions of dollars and is delaying home repairs, factory construction and other projects, many in states that voted Republican.<\/p>\n

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When marble-size hail fell on Alabama in 2023, it devastated Camp Hill, a town of 1,000 where nearly half the residents live below the poverty line. Decks were demolished, cars shattered, roofs destroyed, and few people had insurance.<\/p>\n

The community was expecting to get help this month in the form of a $20 million federal grant to help homeowners make repairs \u2014 money that came from a Biden-era law to tackle climate change.<\/p>\n

But those funds have now been held up by President Trump\u2019s order that all federal climate spending be paused. Even though the White House this week rescinded a sweeping directive<\/a> that would have stopped trillions of dollars in grants across the federal government, a separate executive order<\/a> is still in effect that halts tens of billions of dollars in energy and environmental spending.<\/p>\n

That pause is paralyzing federal agencies, causing confusion in states and cities, delaying construction projects and forcing some companies to furlough workers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThese are real human beings,\u201d said Warren Tidwell, director of the Alabama Center for Rural Organizing and Systemic Solutions, which is leading the effort to repair Camp Hill\u2019s many damaged, leaky roofs. \u201cWe have one woman in her 80s who lives alone, and if she does not get her roof fixed, well, we\u2019re going to have a senior in her late 80s who is homeless,\u201d Mr. Tidwell said.<\/p>\n

The day he was sworn in, Mr. Trump issued an executive order<\/a> on \u201cTerminating the Green New Deal,\u201d his catchall term for climate policies. The White House told federal agencies to pause and review all funding authorized by the Inflation Reduction Act and a bipartisan infrastructure law \u2014 two bills signed by former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. that invested hundreds of billions of dollars in wind and solar projects, electric vehicles and other low-carbon energy technologies.<\/p>\n

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The pause affects billions of dollars and is delaying home repairs, factory construction and other projects, many in states that voted Republican.When marble-size hail fell on Alabama in 2023, it devastated Camp Hill, a town of 1,000 where nearly half the residents live below the poverty line. Decks were demolished, cars shattered, roofs destroyed, and few people had insurance.The community was expecting to get help this month in the form of a $20 million federal grant to help homeowners make repairs \u2014 money that came from a Biden-era law to tackle climate change.But those funds have now been held up by President Trump\u2019s order that all federal climate spending be paused. Even though the White House this week rescinded a sweeping directive that would have stopped trillions of dollars in grants across the federal government, a separate executive order is still in effect that halts tens of billions of dollars in energy and environmental spending.That pause is paralyzing federal agencies, causing confusion in states and cities, delaying construction projects and forcing some companies to furlough workers.\u201cThese are real human beings,\u201d said Warren Tidwell, director of the Alabama Center for Rural Organizing and Systemic Solutions, which is leading the effort to repair Camp Hill\u2019s many damaged, leaky roofs. \u201cWe have one woman in her 80s who lives alone, and if she does not get her roof fixed, well, we\u2019re going to have a senior in her late 80s who is homeless,\u201d Mr. Tidwell said.The day he was sworn in, Mr. Trump issued an executive order on \u201cTerminating the Green New Deal,\u201d his catchall term for climate policies. The White House told federal agencies to pause and review all funding authorized by the Inflation Reduction Act and a bipartisan infrastructure law \u2014 two bills signed by former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. that invested hundreds of billions of dollars in wind and solar projects, electric vehicles and other low-carbon energy technologies.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21354,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21355,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21352\/revisions\/21355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}