A nonprofit representing states is asking EPA not to pull the plug on federal dollars for water projects, despite President Donald Trump’s order to “pause” certain infrastructure funding.
EPA should continue awarding grants through the State Revolving Funds, the Council of Infrastructure Financing Authorities said in a letter to the agency Friday. The SRFs are the largest federal funding program to help make drinking water safer, fix leaky pipes, and replace old water and sewage treatment plants.
The long-standing program received a major funding boost through the 2021 infrastructure law, resulting in billions of additional dollars flowing to states. Not all of that money has been allocated yet.
But Trump’s executive order this week directing agencies to stop disbursing money from the infrastructure law and the Inflation Reduction Act has raised questions about the fate of the money that remains.
