EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is taking aim at roughly $20 billion in funding from the Biden administration’s climate law, pledging to investigate the spending and refer the matter to the agency’s inspector general.
“This scheme was the first of its kind in EPA history, and it was purposefully designed to obligate all of the money in a rush job with reduced oversight,” Zeldin said Wednesday in a post on X.
Zeldin didn’t name the funding mechanism, but he appeared to be referencing the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a program from the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act that delivers nearly ...
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