The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on April 15 that it terminated a $3.1 billion climate-related farming program after finding that it didn’t align with the Trump administration’s priorities.
An archived USDA dashboard on its website had said that the agency had invested billions in the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities, which the agency previously said funded priorities such as planting cover crops to prevent erosion, managing soil nutrients, and other initiatives.
The funding was allocated to 135 projects in every state that also encourage carbon sequestration, reduced methane emissions, and other climate-related practices, according to a project dashboard on the USDA website. The Biden administration had projected that the climate program would reach about 60,000 farms and cut millions of metric tons of carbon dioxide….