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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan claimed Wednesday that his agency has not funded a hardline activist group despite announcing them as an awardee of $50 million in December 2023.
Regan repeatedly denied that his agency has sent any cash to the Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) during a Wednesday appearance in front of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee on Capitol Hill during a testy exchange with Republican South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace.
Despite Regan’s statements, CJA is still listed on the agency’s website as a recipient of $50 million in taxpayer cash via the EPA’s “Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grantmaking Program,” which is designed for recipients including CJA to act as pass-through grantmakers to fund other groups pursuing “environmental justice.”
“As part of the allocation, $600 million is devoted to the Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grantmaking Program, which has shown serious signs of waste, fraud and abuse,” Mace said as she began her questioning.
“More alarmingly, some of this money has been designated for groups opposed to the interests of the United States and her allies… Administrator Regan, environmental justice grantees have partners and affiliates who also receive funds from the EPA. Are any of these groups and affiliates who receive this money anti-American, yes or no?” Mace asked.
“Not that I’m aware of,” Regan replied. (RELATED: Biden Admin Hands $400K To Eco-Activists Who Fought To Block Key Gas Pipeline)
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Mace followed up with a nearly-identical question, asking whether any recipient organizations are anti-semitic or expressly anti-Israel.
“None of these groups have received money,” Regan said.
“Are any of these groups opposed to police and law enforcement?” Mace asked.
“I think we have to establish the point that none of these groups have received money,” Regan said, before responding to an interrupting Mace by saying that “none of the groups have received money.”
“Are you familiar with the group called Climate Justice Alliance?” Mace asked, to which Regan replied in the affirmative. Mace subsequently pulled up printouts of various posters available on the CJA website meant for use by activists demonstrating against Israel, including placards that call for defunding the police, the end of prisons, make reference to the “Stop Cop City” movement and lionize convicted black nationalist cop killer Assata Shakur.
“Are you promising that this group will not receive a single dime, yes or no?” Mace asked after running through the printouts and trading barbs with Regan.
“None of these groups that you have paraded up here have received one dime from EPA,” Regan said, before doubling down on the claim several more times.
“I think it’s a ‘gotcha game’ to put posters and statements that many of us may not agree with, see for the first time and then accuse the agency of supporting something that is not true,” Regan explained in the next round of questioning with Democratic Ohio Rep. Shontel Brown on the same subject. “None of the groups that were presented there have received one dime from EPA. People have applied for resources. We’re going through a very thorough evaluation, and we have a process to determine who should and should not receive federal funding. Those are the facts.”
It would appear as though CJA — which describes itself as “building a Just Transition away from extractive systems of production, consumption and political oppression” and believes that “the path to climate justice travels through a free Palestine” — passed the EPA’s screening given that it is currently listed as a pass-through selectee of the agency’s $600 million “environmental justice” program.
The Daily Caller News Foundation reported on CJA’s general position on the Israel-Arab conflict on the day that the organization was announced as a selectee in December 2023.
CJA is not the only left-wing activist group among the various regional coalitions EPA selected as grantees for the massive program.
Two organizations partnering with Fordham University in its grantmaking coalition — the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice and the New York Immigration Coalition — push civic participation or voter registration initiatives and cater to demographics that tend to vote for Democrats, as the DCNF reported in April. The New York Immigration Coalition also advocates for local authorities not to collaborate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), while the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice has called for the closure of local ICE detention facilities and a ban on immigration detention.
The NDN Collective, meanwhile, is one of CJA’s regional partner organizations named on the EPA’s website page that provides details about the grant program. The South Dakota-based Native American activist group advocates for the release of convicted cop killer Leonard Peltier, and also envisions a “future where Black reparations and Indigenous LANDBACK co-exist” and “where BIPOC collective liberation is at the core.”
The Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs, a regional grantee also set to receive $50 million from the EPA, essentially functions as an incubator for left-of-center activist groups, according to its website. Beyond environmental activism, the group has also helped activist organizations that aspire to replace “systems of incarceration and policing” and boost “voter turnout by supporting frontline voting rights organizations that mobilize communities of color, first-time voters, new Americans, youth, rural communities, returning citizens and other historically disadvantaged communities.”
The EPA did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
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The bad guys are getting sloppier. We can only hope that they find their hubris to be a dangerous thing.
It’s all in the wording.
Didn’t send one dime…sent 500,000,000 dimes worth of money.
Didn’t send any cash…
$50,000,000 would require 10 large duffel bags
As each bag holds around $5,000,000 in hundreds…rather an unruly way to send money with each bags contents weighing 50 kilos or 110 lbs. That’s 1/2 ton of money.
Must have been a check or wire transfer.
electronic transfer- no dimes
Oops 55Kg is 121lbs 1,210lbs for $50M
They never actually give any concrete plans, it’s all just waffle. Grab a clue, “Decarcerate KC” – and your crimes against the English language will not be forgiven – either you have a police force, or you have anarchy. But I’m sure they already know that as they shed crocodile tears into their millions of dollars worth of donations.
I’ve always thought that we were taking the wrong approach to prisons and other so-called rehabilitation facilities; I would pipe in nothing but fifties TeeVee programs and movies on the cable system, and at 3 AM start up the sound of a baby crying (as one might hear at home when that newborn baby needs that 3 AM feeding) …
Audio in Swahili. No CC.
Cloward Piven calls for anarchy. Could what is happening now be worse or more obvious?
So, BLM bought mansions with their donated ‘millyuns’, What are S&EE, NDNCol and CJA ‘investing’ in?
Posters. They’re expensive, ya know.
“”EPA Chief Insists His Agency Has Not Sent ‘One Dime’ To Hardline Left-Wing Org”
What’s $50 million in the grand scheme of things? Bugger all, really.
For my money, people in the UK have yet to realise just how loony this new “Parliament” is – bar 5 Reform UK members, that is. Energy is a massive worry with mad monk, and one time stone tablet owner, Ed Miliband taking charge, but what about those “advising” him? How sound are they?
“””Miatta Fahnbulleh, new MP for Peckham, who is constantly billed as a “rising star” in the Labour Party and has been immediately promoted as an energy minister. Despite spending all of five days as an MP…
Fahnbulleh is formerly head of the capitalism-sceptic New Economics Foundation which, under her leadership, advocated nationalisation of banks and creation of new “green” banks with taxpayer funds. On top of that would be a block on private banks lending to anyone with a “large amount of greenhouse gas emissions” and “penalisation of banks that provide too many carbon-intensive loans”…
The minister, who has been advising Ed Miliband, has personally spent much of the last two years calling for even more and higher windfall taxes on oil and gas producers, and, even more worryingly, the creation of large nationalised energy companies to “flood the market“, accompanied by the introduction of “free basic energy” for everyone. “””
https://order-order.com/2024/07/10/new-energy-ministers-calls-for-mass-nationalisations-and-free-energy/
Free basic energy? What do WUWT-ers think of that idea?
There’s no free lunch. Nor is there free energy.
They can lie by saying, “we did not spend one dime on that” because in actuality they spent millions or billions.
Actually, homeless people get free lunches all the time.
“not one dime”
The EPA administrator is parsing his words.
Even if those groups are being funded by the group EPA gave money, he can still claim EPA did not directly fund those other groups. That’s what he is saying. He is not saying EPA money did not find its way to those radical groups, just not directly from him, or the EPA.
Trump needs to do something drastic to the EPA. And just about every other federal agency, since they are all infested with leftwing bureaucrat political activists like those at the EPA.
“Even if those groups are being funded by the group EPA gave money, he can still claim EPA did not directly fund those other groups”… like Fauci saying he didn’t fund the Wuhan lab :<)
burros
But start with the EPA. Then, the next day …
Free basic energy is sunlight and gravity.
10Kwh per day?
“The minister, who has been
advising??????? Ed MilibandThey know we know they’re the crazy radicals and they know we know but they don’t care because they have the megaphone-
Western democracies ‘governed by radicals’ for last 20 years (msn.com)
That’s right.
Do THEY know we know? Or do they KNOW we know? You had the same thing twice in one sentence so I’m confused.
Last clause should read: “and they know that we know that they know we know.” Whatever. They blast away on their Jim Jones megaphone to keep on the straight and narrow the number of cult members necessary to keep them in power.
Why is the EPA funding ANY private lobbying groups? I don’t care what they support or oppose, there is zero reason to get any of my tax dollars.
re: “Why is the EPA funding ANY private lobbying groups?”
Occam: B/c they can. Its an ‘in your face’ hierarchy (not hypocrisy).
It’s both hierarchy and hypocrisy.
Do a little digging and you will find that virtually every U.S. government agency is doing the same or similar. Heck, the FBI has a criminal division that is engaged in crime.
The rot of the Bidenistas is everywhere.
Oh, it goes way back before Biden. The hallmark of government itself is inefficiency and bureaucratic growth.
burros
Only during the reign of Brandon have FBI agents kneeled for the BLM hoax.
Did Congress establish that program, and fund it, or is this another EPA overreach?
It’s the EPA and numbers – they have so many zeros they don’t always know what to do with them.
Government grants are created to fund leftist groups that absorb lots of money for standing on a podium and patting themselves on the back with leftist causes largely unrelated to the claimed service provided. (PS – I work for a recipient that straddles between providing the claimed service and DEI self promotion, But the money’s not bad and the grants help mask lack of economic activity apart from governmental “economic activity”,)
Michael Regan needs to spend some of those millions of our dollars to scrub this information off EPA’s web portal, anyone can go there and see that EPA, under orders from Michael Regan, has been giving money to Leftist political organizations, repeatedly and proudly. EPA is not hiding what it is doing, he is just lying about what he has ordered EPA to do.
Who approved this funding?
Congress, did, duh. But the point is how is funding environmental justice part of the EVA’S charter? Every department, every agency should have to justify each budget item by listing the law that authorized it.
So what are the repercussions if any for a government dept chief lying to a Congressional Committee of Inquiry?
If there’s no penalties, surely they’ll all just keep doing it.
And laughing in Congress’ face.
Fauci is still roaming free.
Trump is going to save us a lot of money by cutting the money off to these radical, leftwing groups the Democrats are funding.
Voter registration/immigrant issues, huh?
We know where they are going with that.
The “Safe” act was passed in the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday.
All the Safe Act does is say that in order to vote in a federal election, the voter must be a legal resident of the United States.
All Republicans and five Democrats voted in favor of this bill.
But 198 Democrats voted against this bill.
What logical reason could a Democrat give for voting against this bill? Are they against only Americans voting in American elections? It appears they are. I would call that unAmerican, even Traitorous.
Radical Democrats are trying to destroy the United States.
But…but…them thar Trump types are racist for wanting to shut the border to illegals! Unlike some who don’t even want you as tourists-
Go away! Countries that want to reduce the number of tourists (msn.com)
What say you elder abusers?
But the Constitution says that in order to vote in an election, the voter must be a US citizen – which, I believe, is what the SAFE Act reiterated.
It would be very easy for Reagan to say that NONE of these groups will receive a dime in the future (even if they have been designated as a recipient) is in fact answering the question!
Regan
Hopefully Trump will empty the prisons of small time drug users and fill them back up with Anti-American government employees who break any law they don’t like.
Interspersed among what appears to be real and interesting science I get scary links too numerous to study like this one on Sea Level. Apparently us older generations failed to educate students about the definition of science. It’s not just the EPA. Apparently we trained too many sycophants. “First, I’d like to draw your attention to the recent publication of the areas of consensus and debate results from last year’s Communicating Science for Policy conference. In August 2015, Sigma Xi and Institute on Science for Global Policy coordinated this event, which focused on linking scientifically credible information to the formulation and implementation of sound, effective policies”
http://www.pnas.org/content/112/44/13508.full.pdf
Funding Watch
NSF grant to fund development of “consent technology”
“Consent technology” could mitigate sexual harm amid in-person interactions of people who meet online by facilitating safe internet communication, says Douglas Zytko, a University of Michigan-Flint professor who has received a $567,968 NSF grant for the work.
So, is this just some sort of app where participants in online chats can ask something like –
“I s’pose a f$$#’s out of the question??”
Sheesh, I could cobble up an app that does that for only oh, $500k (tax included).
(may be a little more if I have to go into a 2nd day’s effort for “quality control”)
None of the groups that were presented there have received one dime from EPA
If that’s the case, why is CJA listed as the Selectee for Regions 8-10?
I’m also curious why that question did not appear to be asked…
The word “environment” appears nowhere in the US Constitution.
Per the 10th Amendment, the federal government is prohibited exercising any power that is not expressly delegated to it by the Constitution.
Other words not found in the Constitution include: “housing,” health,” “healthcare,” “education,” and “insurance.”
Yes, and apart from “housing,” health,” “healthcare,” “education,” and “insurance.”
what did the Romans ever do for us??
Gotcha.
Corrections welcome.
As I recall, similar to gas taxes going to roads, there was a tax on sporting goods meant to conservation efforts made by the US government. (Public parks, etc.)
It was under Obama that some of that cash was diverted to “environment groups” rather fund government efforts.
Again, corrections welcome.
“returning Americans” are “histroially disadvantaged”?
It is clear as day we have really bad government in action. If it were my call I would shut the EPA down, they have outlived their purpose. The place to start is to remove all grant making authority and monies from the EPA they have clearly abused their authority and responsibilities. Our government is a disgrace.