Trump’s EPA Cancels $20 Billion in Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Grants
https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-epa-climate-grants-cancelled.html
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Trump’s EPA Cancels $20 Billion in Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Grants
https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-epa-climate-grants-cancelled.html
by chrisdh79
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From the article: United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin has cut $20 billion in grants awarded by the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) through a “green bank.”
Zeldin notified recipients of the National Clean Investment Fund and Clean Communities Investment Accelerator that their grants awarded under the former Biden administration’s “gold bar” program were being terminated, a press release from the EPA said.
The EPA said the termination was based on “substantial concerns” regarding the integrity of the GGRF program, including “the award process, programmatic fraud, waste, and abuse, and misalignment with agency’s priorities, which collectively undermine the fundamental goals and statutory objectives of the award.”
Over the last month, Zeldin has criticized the program’s spending and made unsubstantiated claims that the program was riddled with fraud, reported Politico. The latest action came the day before a hearing in federal court over a lawsuit by one of the grant’s recipients who is seeking to access funds frozen by the Trump administration.
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