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 ...

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.

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.

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 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.

But a federal judge ordered EPA and Citibank on Tuesday to thaw frozen accounts for Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund awardees — community development and affordable housing finance nonprofits ...

The lawsuit by Climate United Fund and other groups contends that the EPA, Administrator Lee Zeldin and Citibank, which held the grant money, illegally blocked the funds awarded last year and had ...

Earlier this week, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled that the megabank could not transfer the more-than $15 billion in question back to the EPA, and must instead pay out hundreds of millions of ...

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 ...

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.

EPA says Trump’s big bill should help in its fight to freeze billions in green bank funds by: MICHAEL PHILLIS, Associated Press Posted: Jul 4, 2025 / 01:42 PM EDT ...