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 ...

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

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 ...

Tom Vilsack, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, announced Friday the department will be offering $1 billion in grants to ag and rural small businesses for renewable energy upgrades through the Rural ...

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

Similarly, USDA grants for rural cooperatives transitioning to clean energy — such as those ... We cannot power a 21st-century economy with 1970s energy policy. The path forward is clear ...

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 ...

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 ...