The cuts that the president of the United States, Donald Trump, ordered in environmental matters and the contracts he has paralyzed are leaving thousands of Latinos in a situation of vulnerability to the growing impacts of the climatic crisis.
This follows from a report published Tuesday by Climate Power in Action, a project focused on raising awareness of Latinos and mobilizing them around the action by the climate.
The organization, which met with Environmental Justice organizations led by Latinos, regrets a setback in years of gradual advances to try to stop climate change, or at least alleviate its consequences, which, according to them, will impact the vulnerable communities to a greater extent.
When Trump began his second term on January 20, he signed an executive order baptized ‘release American energy’ in which, according to the study, he froze federal financing for climatic agencies and funds for clean energy and environmental justice.
Climate Power in Action estimates that there are 2,370 million dollars in investments that the administration is trying to deprive the Latin communities throughout the country.
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Trump cuts threaten the situation of Latinos in the face of the climatic crisis
“The programs have ended without prior notice, there are partners who have run out of payments and organizations are reassessing their public dissemination activities due to security concerns for vulnerable populations. These changes are generating a paralyzing effect throughout the sector,” says the study.
He also says that a partner of the organization in Arizona had to end local programs after losing more than 1.9 million dollars of funds that he expected to receive and that another had to cancel all his projects after having organized them for not receiving them.
“They are weakening the systems designed to protect vulnerable communities. We cannot allow ourselves to wait. What is at stake is too important to leave behind the frontline communities,” they denounced from the organization.
They also explain that key federal agencies in climate and meteorological matters, which were one of the whites of the Republicans during the electoral campaign for the Hurricanes Milton and Helene, have suffered dismissals suddenly without taking into account the impact.
The contracts that have been canceled came from the National Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA, in English) and the United States Forest Service, which had signed one of 7.5 million with the Hispanic Communications Network.
The Subsidies for Subsidies for Low or Null Emissions, the Food and Refuge Emergency Emergency Reduction Fund are some of the 43 federal loans located in communities with Latin population that the president ordered to cut.
With EFE information.
