EPA Turmoil Shakes North Carolina’s Climate Efforts With Uncertainties

During its first month, the Trump administration froze U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grant funding and raised job security concerns among the agency's employees, the Winston-Salem Journal reports. Nicholas Institute senior fellow Tim Profeta, who worked at EPA for two years, talked with the paper about the effects on organizations that rely on federal funding for projects and programs to advance climate progress in the state, as well as thousands of EPA employees based in North Carolina.