EPA Didn’t Closely Monitor Grants Under Biden, Watchdog Says (1)

The EPA has consistently failed to make sure its grant recipients are doing what they said they would, according to a report released Wednesday by the agency’s internal watchdog.

The findings appear to support Environmental Protection Agency chief Lee Zeldin’s position that grants handed out by the Biden administration under the 2022 infrastructure law were mishandled.

But the Office of Inspector General’s report didn’t make any allegations of fraud, saying only that the EPA’s 10 regional offices didn’t have systems in place to monitor grantees’ performance. Those gaps were, in turn, a result of the EPA’s failure to issue annual ...