Climate United Fund and other nonprofits in March sued the Environmental Protection Agency, its administrator Lee Zeldin and Citibank, which held the program’s money.

The EPA also has frozen $1.7 billion in money approved by Congress for environmental justice grants, made available via former President Joe Biden’s climate law, to help low-income people and ...

Sprinklers water an agricultural field on July 3, 2024, near Coachella, California, as a heat wave pushed temperatures above ...

Since then, and at least ten emails later to the EPA, the EHC received no answers. One of the most anticipated projects the EHC anticipated working on was a new 3.2-acre park in Barrio Logan.

Once the Trump administration officials decided on a specific course of action to order Citibank to keep the funds frozen, Payne — who has worked at EPA since 2016 and before that worked in ...

The ruling is a defeat for President Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency, ... 20 billion Biden-era fund for climate ... due to the nonprofits before the EPA had frozen their ...

The EPA immediately appealed.The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, commonly referred to as a “green bank,” was authorized by the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act under Democratic President Joe Biden.

The EPA froze $60 million awarded to the nonprofit to fund public health and environmental remediation projects in the Midwest.

The Environmental Protection Agency says the sprawling tax and policy bill ... those billions in unobligated funds to the U.S. Treasury,” EPA spokesperson ... in funding that had been frozen.

The EPA can't end grants from $20 billion Biden-era fund for climate ... Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency, ... due to the nonprofits before the EPA had frozen their ...

The EPA immediately appealed.The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, commonly referred to as a “green bank,” was authorized by the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act under Democratic President Joe Biden.

According to the EPA, when the agency terminated the grants the funds “became unobligated.” “Grantees have desperately performed legal gymnastics to hold tens of billions of taxpayer dollars ...