A nearly three-decade-old newspaper devoted to covering the Chesapeake Bay’s restoration is about to lose a major chunk of its revenue, thanks to an abrupt decision by Trump administration.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has decided to cut off a multi-year grant for the Chesapeake Bay Journal, the publication’s managing editor Timothy Wheeler wrote yesterday. The newspaper is currently in year two of a six-year grant awarded by the agency in 2015, and was set to received $325,000 – equal to about a third of the publication’s annual budget – in February 2018.
But that money isn’t in the pipeline anymore. Wheeler said the agency notified them officials had experienced a “shift in priorities” and decided to cut off the grant.
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