Democrats Urge EPA To Restore Grants After Lawyers Warn Of Violations

Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) are urging EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to rescind the termination of hundreds of environmental justice (EJ) and other grants after internal emails showed agency lawyers warned the actions were unlawful but top managers left it up to grantees to challenge them in court. In a March 25 letter , the senators, led by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), the committee’s ranking Democrat, raise concerns about EPA’s actions taken in accordance with...