Environmental groups fear their nonprofit status could soon come under threat from the Trump administration — possibly even on Earth Day next week.
Rumors started flying this month inside environmental advocacy circles that President Donald Trump might soon move to revoke green groups’ tax-exempt status.
Concerns over the president targeting nonprofits’ status were amplified when Trump suggested this week that Harvard University should lose its tax-exempt status after the school defied the administration’s demands.
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A forthcoming move to try to revoke green groups’ tax exempt status is the “rumor of the day that is flying around D.C.,” said Brett Hartl, the government affairs director at the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity.
