Senate Democrats are accusing EPA of moving to illegally cancel hundreds of grants, sometimes citing faulty authority to do so.
Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee — led by ranking member Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island — obtained a list of 400 grants the agency is targeting for cancellation.
They also obtained internal emails that appear to show that an official in EPA’s Office of General Counsel was concerned about the cancellations and said the agency committed a “significant error.” Some of the terminations cited a change in priorities, but grant contracts didn’t allow for that kind of cancellation, the official argued.
Democrats cited concerns in a letter Tuesday to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, demanding that he reverse his decisions to terminate the grants.
