Posted on 01/04/2025 6:47:57 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
An alliance of grassroots environmental groups could lose $60 million in federal funding after calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
The Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) was named one of the Environmental Protection Agency’s “grantmakers” more than a year ago, putting it in charge of distributing subgrants for locally led environmental projects. But out of 11 of the EPA’s grantmakers, the CJA is the only one that has yet to receive any funding. The group has faced a barrage of attacks for publicly opposing the Israel-Hamas war, and some EPA staffers say the group has been singled out as a result.
“We have been deeply disappointed to witness EPA’s current withholding of $60 million to the Climate Justice Alliance (CJA), the only one of the eleven grantees that courageously spoke out against the environmental toll and human rights violations in Palestine,” a group of anonymous EPA and Department of Energy employees wrote in an open letter in December.
The money could disappear if it isn’t dispersed before President-elect Donald Trump steps into office. Trump has said he would rescind unspent funds from the Inflation Reduction Act that set aside money for the grants. And if his second term is anything like his first, he’s likely to gut the EPA and roll back environmental protections.
With a deregulatory agenda at the national level, local efforts become even more crucial to safeguarding Americans’ air, water, and climate. It’s those kinds of grassroots initiatives that the EPA’s grantmakers are supposed to support and what’s at risk if the agency doesn’t disburse the funds before it’s too late.
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“We have been deeply disappointed to witness EPA’s current withholding of $60 million to the Climate Justice Alliance (CJA),
“”he’s likely to gut the EPA and roll back environmental protections.””
We should be so lucky. All these agencies sit around dreaming up ways to spend OUR MONEY....NEEDS TO STOP NOW!
Enough money in DC has never been the problem - there is too much!!!
The EPA didn’t verify the CJA’s claims or answer specific questions from The Verge about an investigation into the CJA. “EPA continues to review the grant for the Climate Justice Alliance,” EPA spokesperson Nick Conger said in an email to The Verge. “EPA continues to work through its rigorous process to obligate the funds under the Inflation Reduction Act, including the Thriving Communities Grantmakers program.” The agency is “on track” to award more than 90 percent of the funding by the end of the Biden administration, Conger added.
https://climatejusticealliance.org/supreme-court-epa/
Stop all funding to these silly groups.
Yup! BullDOGE all these federally (our $) funded groups for audit and review before another dollar is provided.
I hope they're cut off. We don't need to be sending money to environmental wackos.
They still have a few days to get the money out. Don’t bring it to their attention.
Shout them down and arrest them all for treason.
I believe it is illegal for the US government to give any tax dollars to NGOs either on the left or the right.
We gave the government authority to raze funds to preform inherently governmental functions nothing more. Anything outside that scope is a misuse of government funds.
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