EPA freezing green groups’ bank accounts “strikingly illegal,” prof says

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1. By Jeff Young — Environment and Sustainability Editor |

   Groups that were awarded roughly $20 billion in federal funding for clean energy and climate-related projects told Newsweek that they have been locked out of their bank accounts for more than a week as the Trump administration attempts to claw back the money.

   Under President Donald Trump, the Environmental Protection Agency is attempting to revoke funding for one of its most ambitious actions against climate change, the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, or GGRF. The EPA has requested that a bank freeze accounts holding GGRF money and, according to sources who spoke to Newsweek on condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisal, the agency has triggered an FBI investigation of the GGRF.

   Read more: [https://www.newsweek.com/epa-freezing-green-groups-bank-accounts-reactions-responses-ggrf-2037522](https://www.newsweek.com/epa-freezing-green-groups-bank-accounts-reactions-responses-ggrf-2037522)

2. The CFPB existed to prevent this kind of thing. Just fyi.

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