The leader of the largest nonprofit “green bank” to receive EPA climate grants, only to lose them when President Donald Trump took office, will leave the organization at the end of March.
Beth Bafford, the CEO of Climate United, announced her departure Tuesday from the nonprofit coalition as litigation continues over the fate of the $20 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a program created by President Joe Biden’s cornerstone climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act. Bafford accepted a financial advising position at RBC Wealth Management.
The huge green finance program has been in limbo since February 2025, when the Trump EPA froze the Citibank accounts holding billions of dollars in grant awards for eight nonprofits who were selected to finance clean energy projects in mostly low income communities. The agency later terminated the awards.
In an email to colleagues and partners, Bafford said she would continue to support Climate United’s legal challenge to EPA’s termination on a pro bono basis.
