Environmental scholarship is shrinking as the Trump administration slashes the National Endowment for the Humanities.
One researcher had received NEH help in assessing the social and environmental history of agrichemicals. Another NEH grant was assisting a scholar study the origins of the environmental justice movement. Yet another grant aided an inquiry into Antarctic governance issues relating to the environment.
These NEH grants and more than 1,000 like them spanning a wide array of subject matters have now fallen prey to the so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s wholesale cuts to federal grants and agencies.
The termination of NEH grants announced last week, including a modest number dealing with environment, science and natural resource-related topics, has now been augmented with a gutting of the small independent federal agency itself. According to the union representing NEH workers, approximately 65 percent of NEH’s 180-member staff had received termination notices as of Thursday evening.
