The Koyukuk River has steadily been pulling the ground away from the Alaska Native village of Huslia, moving closer and closer to homes of the 300 people who live there.
Warming temperatures have increased the appetite of the hungry river and heightened danger for the village in central Alaska, about 250 miles from Fairbanks in the Koyukuk National Wildlife Refuge.
To the rescue came EPA, which last year awarded the village $20 million under the Biden administration’s Community Change Grant Program to build energy efficient houses and provide running water and septic systems for people who were going to be moved away from the river.
But the Trump administration canceled the grant in May along with hundreds of others that agency leaders have described as wasteful.
