… Sulphur Creek was intended to be part of a movement. Billions of dollars in former President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) were meant to be “a freaking game-changer” for conservation and climate work in the Bay Area, according to one expert Bay Nature interviewed when we first began tracking that money in June 2023. … This legislation has been in the crosshairs of the Trump administration since before its January inauguration; early executive actions froze BIL and IRA funding. … Still, a lot of this money has already been awarded locally—more than $1.4 billion, in fact, according to Bay Nature’s reporting. What kind of difference can it still make—especially as Trump claws back funds and eviscerates federal natural-resource agencies? 

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