The Environmental Protection Agency canceled two $20 million environmental justice grants awarded to its own consultants by the Biden administration. Washington Free Beacon Learned. [emphasis, links added]
On Monday, EPA administrator Lee Zeldin announced the agency's latest round of grant cancellations and cost-cutting measures.
A familiar source told The The Nectife told The The Norce, a familiar source told The Meachife told The Norcecless told The Norcections told The Norcecle told The Noteclent the The Northecliss told The Norcecle told The Nornection told The Normof Democraced Green, which includes more than 400 canceled grants awarded by the Biden administration to Tennessee’s nonprofit Young, Grented & Green and North Carolina-based nonprofit Democratic Green in December. Free beacon.
Both groups have established links with the Biden White House and the EPA, and have not processed a lot of money until they have obtained taxpayer funds.
Young, Gifted & Green received a $20 million environmental justice grant while its CEO, Latricea Adams, who also served as a top member of the White House Environmental Justice Committee.this Free beacon Reported last month.
The tax return shows that the group's revenue is only $2.7 million (14% of the grant size) as it was registered as a nonprofit in 2020.
Meanwhile, Democratic Green received $20 million in restoring wetlands and demolishing lead pipes from hundreds of homes in North Carolina.
The group is a small mother-daughter action Never do wetland repair or lead pipe removalthis Free beacon Reported last week.
Last January, former EPA Chief Executive Michael Regan appointed his board chairman La'meshia Whittington to appoint his local government advisory committee. A few months later, Whittington and Regan spoke at a policy forum.
These actions underscore the Trump administration’s efforts to remove spending in the Biden era.
Zeldin specifically targeted the Green Energy and Environmental Justice Program, which the inaugural government has rushed to implement in its last weeks and months.
“Working hands with Doge to control wasteful federal spending, the EPA has saved more than $2 billion in taxpayer funds,” Selding said in a statement Monday. “Our commitment to the EPA is a special manager of tax revenue.”
Grants to Young, Gifted & Green and grants to Democratic Green are all part of the $2 billion climate justice community change program, established by Democtrates Difuckation Savinal Act in 2022 and advocated by former President Joe Biden and former EPA Chief Executive Michael Regan.
The groups are one of the 105 entities selected to receive funding under the program. The EPA received 2,801 applications asking for hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for the program.
Zeldin’s action to cut spending in the Biden-era era has affected grants and grants from several other climate justice community change programs under eight other programs, according to familiar sources.
These programs include EPA’s small environmental justice grant program and collaborative problem-solving cooperation agreement program.
Additionally, Zeldin's team awarded $20 billion to eight nonprofits by Biden administration Under the Greenhouse Reduction Fund Program under the Inflation Reduction Act, it is parked at external financial institutions.
The Justice Department and the FBI freeze the funds as they investigated the Biden administration's implementation of the plan.
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