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Very simply, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grant cuts are not healthy.

EPA cuts could leave small rural towns choking in smoke

The EPA’s slashing of more than $1 billion in grant funding has hit hard in Western communities that have felt climate impacts from flooding, wildfire smoke and melting permafrost.

"The EPA’s decision to slash more than $1.5 billion in funding that Administrator Lee Zeldin characterized as “DEI and Environmental Justice grants” has hit hard in many rural communities in the West that have firsthand experience with the destructive realities of the warming climate. The cuts landed in Alaska villages reeling from melting permafrost and coastal flooding; Native American reservations suffering from smoke and long-running drought; and mountain towns in the Pacific Northwest surrounded by burning forests."

This is worth watching and listening to.  Zeldin not only doesn't give a rat's ass, he strongly resembles one that's on a horse.