Three nonprofit groups won reinstatement of their grant awards after challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s order to cut an environmental justice block grant program.
Funds must again flow for the plaintiffs’ “Thriving Communities” grants, which are designed to allow the agency to support activities that benefit disadvantaged communities by monitoring, preventing, and remediating pollution and climate risks, said Judge Adam B. Abelson in a Tuesday opinion for the US District Court for the District of Maryland, granting summary judgment against the EPA and its administrator, Lee Zeldin.
“Congress expressly required EPA to use the appropriated funds for ‘environmental justice’ programs,” ...
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