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Climate group that called for Gaza ceasefire risks losing federal funding
MSN ^ | January 3, 2025 | by Justine Calma

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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1 posted on 01/04/2025 6:47:57 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“We have been deeply disappointed to witness EPA’s current withholding of $60 million to the Climate Justice Alliance (CJA),


Kinda amazing this is being done under the current administration?


2 posted on 01/04/2025 6:50:56 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“”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!!!


3 posted on 01/04/2025 6:54:03 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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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.


For some reason EPA doesn’t like CJA?


4 posted on 01/04/2025 6:55:28 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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https://climatejusticealliance.org/supreme-court-epa/


Climate Justice Alliance Condemns the Increased Politicization of the Supreme Court, Demands Regulation of Polluting Industries to Safeguard Frontline Communities
On the heels of the devastating decision from the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) to abandon people’s right to bodily self-determination last week by overturning Roe v. Wade, today they further diminish the rights of Indigenous Peoples, Black, Latinx, Asian Pacific Islander, poor white communities, and other frontline communities most affected by the climate crisis, a further assault on our bodies and rights.


definitely a lot of mission creep at cja.


5 posted on 01/04/2025 6:57:22 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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Stop all funding to these silly groups.


6 posted on 01/04/2025 7:14:05 AM PST by bgill
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Yup! BullDOGE all these federally (our $) funded groups for audit and review before another dollar is provided.


7 posted on 01/04/2025 7:18:19 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
“We have been deeply disappointed to witness EPA’s current withholding of $60 million to the Climate Justice Alliance (CJA),

I hope they're cut off. We don't need to be sending money to environmental wackos.

8 posted on 01/04/2025 7:56:21 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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9 posted on 01/04/2025 7:57:39 AM PST by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They still have a few days to get the money out. Don’t bring it to their attention.


10 posted on 01/04/2025 8:20:27 AM PST by Twotone ( What's the difference between a politician & a flying pig? The letter "F.")
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I would have thought Climate Justice Alliance was a one issue outfit.
But I guess exterminating Israel is on every lefty's agenda.
11 posted on 01/04/2025 9:15:16 AM PST by Salman (In Hell it is a punishable offense not to call it Heaven.)
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Shout them down and arrest them all for treason.


12 posted on 01/04/2025 9:45:23 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Drill Baby Drill!)
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To: bgill
Stop all funding to these silly groups.

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.

13 posted on 01/04/2025 9:48:47 AM PST by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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