Trump EPA Moves To Claw Back Biden’s $20 Billion Green Slush Fund
- February 13, 2025
Nick Pope, Daily Caller
The Trump administration is moving to take back $20 billion for a green grantmaking program that the Biden Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rushed to obligate in its final days.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced Wednesday night that his agency is working to reassume control of the funding for the Biden EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF), a massive spending program designed to provide cash to coalitions of green groups that then use the funds to finance green technology and other similar projects. At least three of the eight organizations that were selected as awardees are loaded with Democrat Party insiders.
Among the awardees selected by the Biden EPA are Climate United, the Coalition for Green Capital and Power Forward Communities, three groups that are taking home almost $14 billion combined to establish financing operations for a wide variety of green technology and energy projects under the GGRF’s National Clean Investment Fund. Each of these groups feature combinations of former Obama and Biden administration employees and officials from labor unions and left-wing environmental activist groups on their boards.
“Protect the Public’s Trust, along with the Daily Caller News Foundation, has been among those sounding the alarm on this greendoggle for over two years now. Many of us recognized the issues and potential for abuse that were likely to manifest themselves due to the manner in which the Biden administration structured the program. Many of the recipient organizations were tied to the Biden administration and its political allies,” Michael Chamberlain, executive director of Protect the Public’s Trust, a government watchdog group, told the DCNF. “In fact, one of the recipients of billions from the GGRF had a board member who was likely involved in creating the program while serving in the Biden White House. What a surprise that EPA awarded funds to this group … It appears as though our concerns with this program were more than justified.”