EPA Orders Grant Scrubbed Of Equity, Climate Terms, Terminates Others

EPA has terminated without explanation millions of dollars in environmental justice (EJ) grants to major cities and nonprofits and ordered at least one other award purged of forbidden terms surrounding EJ, racial equity and climate change though it appears to allow the originally funded activity to continue, new court filings show. EPA’s actions are detailed in March 31 filings in Sustainability Institute, et al. v. Trump , litigation that is pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of...