Climate United filed a lawsuit on Saturday against the EPA and Citibank, claiming the entities are illegally withholding nearly $7 billion awarded to the organization last April. The grant is connected to a green financing program for climate change projects, with a larger sum of $20 billion that provides money to multiple groups — all of whom have said they, too, are unable to access their grants.
Those funds are under scrutiny by the Trump administration and EPA Director Lee Zeldin, who said the green financing program was “purposely designed to obligate all of the money in a rush job with reduced oversight.” He’s referred to the funds multiple times as “gold bars” and insisted the agency will review “every penny.”
The lawsuit filed
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