Senate Democrats Say EPA Intentionally Skews GOP’s Climate Fund Repeal

Senate Democrats are accusing EPA of illegally clawing back billions of dollars in already obligated clean energy funding, arguing the agency is intentionally misinterpreting Republicans’ budget law that rescinds the statutory provision for the agency’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GHGRF). “Despite these baseless attacks, the bottom line is that neither [the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)] nor Republicans understood the repeal and rescission of the GGRF to save anything more than EPA’s unspent oversight dollars. Wishful statutory interpretation on the part...