In the waning days of the Biden administration, the Department of Government Efficiency ( DOGE ) discovered a$ 20 billion windfall that the EPA had given to radical green groups last month. The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund was a comprehensive program created to serve as a central repository for extreme NGOs and green organizations.
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Eight organizations received the$ 2 billion in cash, including$ 2 billion to Power Forward Communities, an organization that, at the time it received the EPA grant in April 2024, had$ 100 in the bank.
On its website, Power Forward Communities lists lots of “partners,” including some businesses founded by former Georgia governor Stacey Abrams. She is referred to as the general guidance of Rewiring America, a different organization.  ,
When DOGE attempted to stop the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund from reaching its goal, Power Forward Communities and two additional Green Slush account recipients filed a lawsuit. A judge has temporarily stymied the EPA’s efforts to end the programme, arguing that there hasn’t been enough “evidence of fraud” presented by the EPA.
Since handling the case involving Trump election meddling, the prosecutor is well-known to users. According to Judge Tonya Chutkan of the U.S. District Court, the federal government’s “vague and unfounded allegations of fraud are inadequate.”
According to Chutkan, “EPA Defendants have not sufficiently explained why” unilaterally terminating Plaintiffs ‘ grant awards was a rational step in the direction of a review of” the Green Bank program.” Citibank, the” Green Bank,” was Citibank, which has frozen the records of the recipients of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction offer.
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Chutkan claimed that she was not “forcing the EPA to remove its termination nor making the funds unusable, but ensuring that the authorities adheres to give laws and regulations” in the interests of the public.
The judge had earlier said during a court hearing that the government couldn’t simply space deals, vacuum contracts, and cancel things without following its own regulations.
The Trump administration’s latest twist in a wild , , multibillion-dollar battle has chosen to overshadow its presidency’s political reputation with the court decision. The green bank uses neighborhood lenders in low-income regions to utilize public and private funds to invest in clean-energy technologies like thermal panels, heat pump, and more. Last month, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin claimed that the money was distributed with much supervision and that he has filed a lawsuit seeking to recover the funds from Citibank, which was in charge of disbursing the funds, leading to an internal investigation led by the agency’s inspector general and a justice ministry criminal investigation.
In declaring that he froze and moved to terminate the grants, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin claimed the award consumers engaged in incompetence, fraud, and self-dealing, according to Fox News. Those factors were “vague” and lacking in sensitivity, according to Chautkan.
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No matter how disagreeable the reason or the grant recipient are, it’s very hard to recover money that has already been awarded in a grant. The state operates in this manner. There would be conflict if every president had the power to reverse the actions of a previous administration if they were against the intended purpose or who the money went to.
Nonetheless, Zeldin’s claims of incompetence may be challenging to corroborate.
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