Federal judge questions whether EPA move to rapidly cancel ‘green bank’ grants was legal
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Wednesday questioned a Department of Justice attorney over whether the Environmental ...
Judge hammers EPA over lack of proof of wrongdoing in terminating $20B in climate grants
"Here we are, weeks in, and you're still unable to proffer me any information with regard to any kind of investigation or malfeasance," U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said.
Democrats grill EPA nominee over green bank controversy
Democrats grilled Sean Donahue, President Trump’s pick as top lawyer for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), on the ...
Democrats say EPA illegally canceled hundreds of grants aimed at boosting ‘environmental justice’
Last year, the EPA changed the terms and conditions for its grants, eliminating its ability to do policy-based cancellations. An internal EPA Office of General Counsel email obtained by Senate ...
Climate groups could beat Trump in fight for $20B. It may be too late.
The controversy over $20 billion of climate grants is stalling projects across the country and could force cancellation of ...
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Trump Makes Massive Cut to UPenn Funding Amid War on Trans Athletes
Trump is freezing $175 million in funding to the University of Pennsylvania in an effort to further vilify transgender ...
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Judge bars Citi from returning climate grants to the EPA
The decision came after three nonprofits that had received funding sued Citi, the EPA and its administrator, Lee Zeldin, earlier this month, alleging that their efforts to freeze and terminate the ...
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Judge temporarily bars EPA from clawing back $14B in green bank grants
“This is insufficient,” the judge added. Chutkan ordered that the EPA’s decision to terminate the grants cannot take effect and that the agency and Citibank, which is holding the ...
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Judge blocks EPA from canceling $20 billion in Biden era grants
The Act authorized the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which made grants available to eligible climate projects. Related EPA announces range of rollbacks on environmental regulations Senate ...
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Judge temporarily blocks EPA's effort to cancel $20 billion in climate grants
In her opinion, Chutkan found that they were awarded the grants "pursuant to a statute authorized by Congress," and that the EPA did not give the plaintiffs "an opportunity to object and provide ...
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Judge Temporarily Stops E.P.A. From Clawing Back $14 Billion in Climate Grants
The grant funding has been caught up in a controversy for the last month after Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A.’s administrator, repeatedly suggested that the funds were vulnerable to fraud and that the ...
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US judge blocks Trump's EPA from clawing back climate grants
March 18 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from recovering grant funds issued as part of a $20 billion climate funding program that ...