FBI Targets Climate Groups

In February, POLITICO reported that eight nonprofit groups who received awards from a $20 billion climate grant had their accounts frozen at Citibank. The freeze is part of Trump's effort to claw back money from Biden-era climate and clean energy funds, including those legally contracted and placed in bank accounts.

EPA administrator Lee Zeldin has maligned these funds as "shoveling boat loads of cash to far-left activist groups."

Today The New Republic reports that the FBI is targeting groups that received these grants, alleging "possible criminal violations" including "conspiracy to defraud the United States." This includes groups such as Habitat for Humanity, Appalachian Community Capital, and Coalition for Green Capital.

Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups

The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.

The New RepublicMalcolm Ferguson

In another blow to environment protection, Eos reports on Zeldin's order to shutter the 10 regional EPA offices focused on environmental justice. These offices worked with low-income and minority communities disproportionately burdened by pollution.

Is the takeaway that nothing is more un-American than justice?

EPA Plans to Close Environmental Justice Offices, Leaving Communities to Face Pollution Alone - Eos

Yesterday, news broke that a memo from Lee Zeldin, the new administrator of the EPA, directed the agency to eliminate all offices that focus on environmental justice.

EosGrace van Deelen

"'The work of making our government more just — work that has been pursued for decades — has essentially been wiped from our federal government in a matter of weeks,' wrote Matthew Tejada, the former head of the EPA’s environmental justice program."

Source tags: POLITICO, The New Republic, Eos