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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin is working to retrieve $20 billion that the Biden administration granted to various environmental groups. He also said that his agency will, under President Trump, review “every penny that has gone out the door.”

From The Epoch Times. The head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said the agency will try to retrieve about $20 billion granted to environmental groups before President Donald Trump was inaugurated in January.

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In a video posted to the social media platform X on Wednesday, Zeldin said the EPA decided to rescind the grants for climate and clean-energy projects mainly because of concerns over lack of oversight and transparency. …

In his video, Zeldin said that the EPA found that roughly $20 billion in taxpayer funds were transferred during the previous administration to an unnamed external financial institution.

The bank oversaw the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which was created under the Inflation Reduction Act and through which the EPA awarded the $20 billion in grants to eight entities.

Zeldin said he believed the financial agent agreement with the bank needed to be terminated immediately and called for the bank to return all the funds.

He alleged that the eight entities were tasked with funding nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and other groups at their discretion and with “far less transparency.” …

The EPA chief said that, under the Trump administration, the agency will take a zero-tolerance stance on waste and abuse and will review “every penny that has gone out the door.” …

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(Excerpt from The Epoch Times. Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America – Lee Zeldin, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=81307713)