Tribal Solar Projects Meet Different Fates In Wyoming After Trump Administration Kills Funding

Inside Climate News · By Jake Bolster · last updated August 16, 2025 – 1:22 AM

The Eastern Shoshone are moving ahead with a solar-powered micro-grid, but the Northern Arapaho rooftop PV program stalled after the EPA clawed back Solar for All funding.

By Jake Bolster

WIND RIVER, Wyo.—Last week, the Northern Arapaho tribe learned that it was losing about $10 million in federal grants that would have helped members of the tribe lower their electrical bills.

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