A housing electrification nonprofit laid off more than a quarter of its staff Thursday because EPA has barred it from accessing its climate law grant award for nearly three months.
Rewiring America, one of three coalition members jointly awarded $2 billion last year under the embattled Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund program, announced Thursday that it had notified 36 employees that their positions would be terminated.
In a letter to employees, CEO Ari Matusiak blamed EPA for freezing Power Forward Communities’ accounts at Citibank and forcing the coalition and other nonprofit awardees to go to court to try to regain access to their funds.
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“The volatility we face is not something we created: it is being directed at us,” he wrote.
