DEI Cuts Leave Rural Utilities Struggling with Sewage, Air Quality and Erosion

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DEI Cuts Leave Rural Utilities Struggling with Sewage, Air Quality and Erosion
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Trump-era cuts to DEI programs have undermined public-works and environmental monitoring projects from Georgia to Alaska, collapsing efforts to install indoor plumbing in rural villages, provide septic tanks in Alabama, and fund air-quality monitoring, leaving residents without basic sanitation and exposing families to health risks amid worsening pollution and erosion.

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