Washington – In the great reversal, the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency, said that they would try to abolish $ 20 billion grants assigned by the Biden Administration for Climate and Pure Energy Projects.
In a Video posted on xLee Zeldin Administrator said EPA will take off contracts for even increasing “Green Bank” which was set to the Fund tens of thousands of projects To combat climate change and promote judicial justice.
The program was approved within the Law on Reducing Inflation 2022. year, formal known as a fond to reduce greenhouse gasesBut the green bank is more often called. Two initiatives, worth 14 billion dollars, or 6 billion dollars, are intended for competitive non-refundable non-profit places, bank development banks and other projects for the focus on unpleasant communities.
The program is a favorite of the Democrats that crossed the climate to accompany the signature of Joe Biden without a single republican voting, and the former EPA administrator Michael Regan is often quoted as one of his great achievements.
Republicans in Congress called on the Green Bank “Slush Fund” and expressed concern about how the money will be used and will be sufficient responsibility and transparency. The Republic House under Control last year was approved by the draft law for the abolition of the Green Bank and other parts of the Bisen Climate Agenda. The bill is blocked in the Senate controlled by democratic.
Zeldin, in the video published on Wednesday evening, said that there would be a “zero tolerance of any waste and abuse” in the EPA under his administration. He cited the “extremely disturbing video”, which has a former EPA stick that states that the Biden Administration “threw golden bars from the Titanic” to spend billions of tax dollars before President Donald Trump.
“The days of irresponsible shovel of the ship’s cash ships on far activist groups in the name of environmental justice and climate equality are,” Zeldin said. “I have directed my team to find your gold bars and found them. We will now return them to the government control as we follow the next steps.”
Video Zeldin cition has published a project Veritas, a right-wing organization that often uses Hidden cameras Try to embarrass news, workers’ organizations and democratic officers. In this case, Video Veritas showed Brent Efron, the former EPA of a special implementation advisor, speaking in a bar or restaurant with someone who turned out with a group. EFRON has left EPA since then.
Proponents of clean energy condemned Zeldin as a political belly and said that he was illegally trying to revoke the consumption that Congress approved by partisan reasons. They committed themselves to challenge the Directive in court.
“This is not just an attack on pure energy investments – it is a mud violation of the Constitution,” said Lena Moffitt, Evergreen Action Executive Director, an ecological group that supports the green bank. “The Trump team once again tries to illegally Slash programs meant to help American families finance the tax cut for billionaires.”
Money was already assigned eight non-profit, Including the coalition for green capital, the airline United Fund, the Electric Community, the Opportunity of the Financial Network, including the Climate and Judicial Climate Fund Fund. These organizations teamed up with a series of groups, including misdemeanor America, Habitat for humanity and the Community Preservation Corporation.
Former Vice President Kamal Harris announced awards for grant prizes last year at the event in Charlotte, North Carolina.
2025-02-14 05:26:00
