“The executives don’t have the authority to change policies just because they don’t like them,” Blanchard said in a reporter’s virtual briefing on Friday. “Congress is not president, not Elon Musk, it’s making laws,” she said.
Feeling freeze
Nationwide, spending freezes disrupt the environment, resilience and community improvement programs approved by Congress in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.
“The real people on the ground are hurt by the situation at the stop-start,” said Blanchard, whose group works with the Natural Resources Defense Council on the incidents of 230 recipients in 44 states. .
The recipient is in a state of confusion as he has never heard of it directly from the EPA, she said.
Michelle Ruth, executive director of the Environmental Protection Network, is a coalition of former EPA employees working with lawyers for excellent government, and many grantees are not responsible for the agency’s employees being non-people. He said he doesn’t know what’s going on because he’s prohibited from speaking. Agent.
Several grantees who reached Inside Climate News said they did not want to say whether they were talking to the media or if they had access to the funds.
MDC, a nonprofit in Durham, North Carolina, is expected to receive a $3 million Environmental Justice Community Change Grant for Disaster Recovery and Resilience Programs in Latinos in Eastern North Carolina. Masu.
“We were excited to receive federal support to do this job, but unfortunately, like many others, access to this fund has been disrupted.” said Clarissa Goodlett, MDC’s Communications Director.
