On March 25, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it will release grant money through a U.S. Department of Agriculture program called the Rural Energy for America Program, or REAP, and two ...

The Agriculture Department is lifting a freeze on clean energy funding programs ... in line with the Trump administration's policy for increasing U.S. energy production. The action addresses ...

USDA releases grant money for clean energy programs while inviting recipients to revise proposals to align with Trump ...

President Trump’s efforts to dismantle climate policies won’t stop renewables from rising or fossil fuels from slowing, ...

The agency is moving to get gridlocked money to farmers and business owners. Some worry about the implications of its ...

It froze hundreds of billions of dollars for renewable energy under President ... Law and Policy Center, a Midwest-based environmental advocacy group. “The USDA claims to deliver on commitments ...

Thousands of farmers and small rural businesses -- including many in Iowa -- remain in limbo as USDA demands grant rewrites ...

Previously frozen funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development Office has been released, funding rural ...

Funding for the three rural energy programs—the Rural Energy For America Program (REAP), Empowering Rural America (New ERA) program, and Powering Affordable Clean Energy (PACE) program —is managed by ...

Mike Lavender, the policy director at the National Sustainable ... published by Grist with the headline The USDA is unfreezing clean energy money — but ‘inviting’ grant recipients to remove ...