{"id":10439,"date":"2025-03-04T21:53:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T21:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/some-green-groups-are-running-out-of-cash-after-trump-freezes-20-billion\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T21:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T21:53:14","slug":"some-green-groups-are-running-out-of-cash-after-trump-freezes-20-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/some-green-groups-are-running-out-of-cash-after-trump-freezes-20-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Green Groups Are Running Out of Cash After Trump Freezes $20 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Two weeks after their bank accounts were frozen amid a swirl of investigations by the Trump administration, nonprofit organizations that were supposed to receive $20 billion to help curb climate change are still unable to withdraw money, raising concerns about their ability to pay staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The accounts were frozen by Citibank, which holds the money, after Lee Zeldin, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, suggested there was potential fraud and the F.B.I. and Department of Justice launched investigations. Those inquiries went forward despite the determination by<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>a top federal prosecutor that there was not enough evidence to open a grand jury criminal probe. Citibank declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Zeldin has criticized the policy and the structure of the program that was created by Congress and run by the Biden administration. He called for the money to be returned to the federal government, but has presented no evidence that a crime has been committed. This week, he asked for a third, concurrent investigation by his agency\u2019s acting inspector general.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Climate United, which received almost $7 billion under the program to distribute to other organizations, said Tuesday that it is struggling to make payroll, and individual project developers cannot withdraw the money they were promised.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThese relationships take many months to build and are in jeopardy if funding freezes continue,\u201d said Brooke Durham, a Climate United spokeswoman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Tuesday, lawyers for Climate United asked the E.P.A. to justify its actions. In a letter to the agency, the lawyers detailed Climate United\u2019s efforts to meet with E.P.A. representatives, adding that the agency canceled a Feb. 25 meeting after learning that Climate United\u2019s lawyers would be present.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Trump administration has for the last six weeks attempted to find malfeasance connected to the distribution of money from the Inflation Reduction Act, the Biden administration\u2019s signature climate law. The law provides tax incentives for clean energy manufacturing, and also calls for the E.P.A. to issue billions of dollars worth of grants to states, tribes, nonprofit groups and others to reduce emissions from fossil fuels, the main driver of climate change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Zeldin has taken particular aim at <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/04\/climate\/epa-green-bank-clean-energy.html\" title=\"\">$20 billion obligated in April<\/a> that came from a program called the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which is sometimes known by the shorthand \u201cgreen bank\u201d funding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Under it, Congress required the E.P.A. to award grants to organizations that in turn <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/04\/climate\/epa-green-bank-clean-energy.html?searchResultPosition=2\" title=\"\">would offer<\/a> loans and grants to businesses, homeowners and others to spur clean energy across the country, particularly in low-income neighborhoods. Funds were held in Citibank accounts under the names of the grantees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Former Vice President Kamala Harris was a champion of the program, calling it \u201cthe largest investment in financing for community-based climate projects in our nation\u2019s history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Trump administration has run into roadblocks in its efforts to claw back the funding. Denise Cheung, a top federal prosecutor in D.C., refused to order that Citibank freeze the funds, citing a lack of evidence of possible criminal activity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Last month, she wrote in a letter, obtained by The New York Times, that <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/18\/us\/politics\/denise-cheung-federal-prosecutor-quits.html\" title=\"\">she was asked to step down<\/a> by the interim U.S. attorney in Washington, Ed Martin, after she determined there was not enough evidence to open a grand jury criminal investigation or to order a bank to freeze the accounts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Trump administration appears to be basing its portrayal of the program as somehow criminal on <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CblV6EwzKxg\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a hidden-camera video produced last year by Project Veritas,<\/a> a right-wing group known for trying to entrap political opponents with covert recordings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the video, shot at a bar or restaurant toward the end of the Biden administration, Brent Efron, then an E.P.A. employee, is asked about his job by an unidentified male who gushed \u201camazing,\u201d when Mr. Efron said he worked on climate change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At one point in the video, Mr. Efron refers to \u201cgreen banks,\u201d which he tells the person covertly recording him are nonprofit institutions that make it more financially feasible to build renewable energy projects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Project Veritas edited the video to then cut to a different part of their conversation in which Mr. Efron was describing how there was a rush to finish obligating funds that had been authorized by Congress before the Trump administration took office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt truly feels like we\u2019re on the Titanic and we\u2019re throwing like gold bars off the edge,\u201d Mr. Efron said in the video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Zeldin and other Trump officials now frequently invoke the \u201cgold bars\u201d phrase to suggest the prior administration was rushing to spend tax dollars in ways that were<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>vulnerable to waste, fraud and abuse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But a lawyer for Mr. Efron, Mark Zaid, said his client, whom he portrayed as \u201cthe victim of a Project Veritas attack,\u201d was not referring to the frozen funds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHe is the one who made that \u2018gold bars\u2019 statement that Zeldin keeps seizing on, but it has nothing to do with this Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund,\u201d Mr. Zaid said. \u201cHe wasn\u2019t talking about that. Those funds were already allocated and obligated.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the Project Veritas video, after using the \u201cgold bars\u201d phrase, Mr. Efron was asked who was getting the gold bars. He replied \u201cnonprofits, states, tribes, cities\u201d adding: \u201ca lot of them are small, like, local nonprofits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Efron has been contacted by both the office of the E.P.A. inspector general and by an agent with the Washington field office of the F.B.I., according to Mr. Zaid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The F.B.I. agent left a card at Mr. Efron\u2019s home. Mr. Zaid said that on behalf of his client, he called the agent, who told him he had been sent by a prosecutor in the Southern District of Florida. But \u201cthat disappeared very quickly, and I am in discussion with the D.O.J. right now to better understand what is actually going on,\u201d Mr. Zaid said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">There had been, he said, a \u201cstrange bouncing around of which U.S. attorney was going to handle this case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The person with the office of the E.P.A. inspector general \u2014 <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/27\/us\/politics\/trump-inspectors-general-fired.html\" title=\"\">one of the many watchdog agencies whose leaders have been purged by Mr. Trump<\/a> \u2014 sent Mr. Efron an email to which Mr. Zaid replied, the lawyer said, but he had not heard back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Right-wing media outlets have labeled the green bank a slush fund and highlighted a link between fund recipients and Stacey Abrams, a Democratic organizer and former candidate for governor in Georgia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Abrams served for one year as a senior counsel for Rewiring America, one of the nonprofit groups that stood to receive control of $2 billion to administer loans to different climate programs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Trump administration has also claimed that funding was awarded to organizations with ties to the Biden White House. Mr. Zeldin repeated these conflict of interest claims in his Monday letter to the Office of the Inspector General seeking further investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">John Podesta, who oversaw implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act as a senior climate adviser to the Biden administration, said in an interview that the process for issuing grants was \u201cextremely\u201d stringent and called the Trump administration attacks politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe knew it was a possibility that they\u2019d try to interfere with people getting access to their money,\u201d Mr. Podesta said of the Trump administration. In recent weeks the Trump administration also has frozen billions of dollars that were appropriated by Congress for clean energy projects, releasing some of the money only after two judges ordered it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe followed the law and they are breaking the law,\u201d Mr. Podesta said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a 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