Federal Funding Freeze Halts Key Infrastructure Projects in Tribal Communities


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Tyonek and other villages in Alaska received no notice whatsoever.

Community Change Grants were some of the most flexible dollars in the federal government.

The Biden administration awarded nearly $1.6 billion in Community Change grants to help communities address the growing threats of climate change, from thawing permafrost to riverbank erosion to wildfire prevention."We are starting to see increased impacts of climateChange," says Rayna Paul, the environmental director of Kipnuk.

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