Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are requesting the EPA provide information so they can ensure that a grant program isn’t ‘a $100 million slush fund for far-left organizations.’

The EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights, funded thanks to the Biden-backed Inflation Reduction Act, has already earned praise from climate advocates.

Jackson, Mississippi, a city of 150,000, is in the sixth week of a boil-water advisory from the state health department because of concerns that low pressure could allow contaminants into the water.

$154 million from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will be used to improve water infrastructure for Native American tribes and Alaska Native villages.

‘Communities of color, indigenous communities and low-income communities often bear the brunt of the harm caused by environmental crime, pollution and climate change,’ Attorney General Merrick Garland said.

The agency is working to reverse Donald Trump’s disastrous anti-environment agenda.

‘We’re going to use every tool in our toolbox to restrict human exposure to these toxic chemicals,’ said Michael Regan, head of the EPA.

Environmental and public health groups hailed the rule change as a return to EPA’s responsibility to follow science and prioritize public health.

The site went dark for 4 years, after Trump deleted it.

‘We are really tying that back to this notion that environmental justice and equity will be center stage at EPA and this administration,’ said EPA Administrator Michael Regan.

Louis Anthony ‘Tony’ Cox allowed the oil and gas industry to edit a study playing down the link between pollution and asthma.