EPA’s Zeldin Tangles With Lawmakers Over Evidence of Fraud

House Democrats went toe-to-toe with EPA head Lee Zeldin Tuesday over his bid to claw back green bank grants issued under the Biden administration.

Much of the discussion in the House Energy and Commerce Environment Subcommittee hearing centered on whether the Environmental Protection Agency has hard evidence the money was spent wastefully or fraudulently, or whether it’s going on what Rep. Nanette Barragán (D-Calif.) called “theories or hunches.”

The green bank grants dispute goes to the heart of an ongoing legal drama over the fate of $20 billion issued under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund that’s still playing out in ...