EPA has unfrozen all its climate grants. As of early Thursday afternoon, the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund was the only exception.
Awardees of other EPA grant programs under the 2022 climate law found Tuesday and Wednesday that they could access the federal government’s portal to receive funds, several told POLITICO’S E&E News. The same was true for recipients of an infrastructure law grant program that helps school districts buy clean school buses. Grantees were granted anonymity to speak out of fear of reprisals.
All those programs had been frozen — with one brief interruption — since Jan. 28. EPA said the pause would allow for a “review” of the programs.
Meanwhile, two of the three programs under EPA’s $27 billion GGRF were untouched by that freeze. Those funds were in accounts at Citibank with the recipients’ names on them.
