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Trump's Billions in Climate Cuts Have Nonprofits Scrambling to Survive
If any nonprofit epitomizes the whiplash experienced by climate advocacy groups in the US over the past few years, it's Rewiring America.
Founded in 2020 shortly before former President Joe Biden was elected, the organization focuses on shifting US homes from fossil fuel-powered appliances to electric ones like heat pumps — a prime goal of Biden's Inflation Reduction Act when it was passed in 2022. Rewiring America was poised to receive nearly $500 million from a $27 billion program created by that law.