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The EPA is canceling almost 800 environmental justice grants.
A total of 781 are being canceled, with 377 already canceled.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is canceling nearly 800 grants, most of which have to do with environmental justice, according to a court document.
In a filing that was entered last week but first reported by The Washington Post Tuesday, a high-ranking EPA employee states that the agency has already told 377 grantees that their awards were canceled.
The agency plans to send cancellation notifications to an additional 404 — meaning a total of 781 grants are being canceled, said the filing, a declaration from Daniel Coogan, the EPA’s Deputy Assistant Administrator for Infrastructure and Extramural Resources.
A report from a Republican-led committee last year stated, “As part of its radical rush-to-green agenda, the [Biden] administration gave hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to activists who also engage in political activities.”
The cancellations appear to primarily impact environmental justice programs, such as programs that monitor pollution. But one program seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the production of construction materials.
The filing comes as the Trump administration targets environmental justice issues more broadly, including by firing 280 EPA staffers and reassigning 175 other employees that were assigned to the topic.
Environmental justice is actually quite controversial. Last year the Republican-led House Energy and Commerce Committee released a staff report that laid out allegations about the grants:
“As part of its radical rush-to-green agenda, the [Biden] administration gave hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to activists who also engage in political activities,” lawmakers behind the report said in a joint statement. “It was empowered to do so by congressional Democrats who jammed through legislation that was designed to rush money out the door as quickly as possible with no guards against waste, fraud, and abuse.”
The Trump administration is getting rid of waste, fraud, and abuse.