Despite Regan's statements, CJA is still listed on the agency's website as a recipient of $50 million in taxpayer cash via the EPA's "Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grantmaking Program," which is designed for recipients including CJA to act as pass-through grantmakers to fund other groups pursuing "Environmental justice." "As part of the allocation, $600 million is devoted to the Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grantmaking Program, which has shown serious signs of waste, fraud and abuse," Mace said as she began her questioning.
"More alarmingly, some of this money has been designated for groups opposed to the interests of the United States and her allies Administrator Regan, environmental justice grantees have partners and affiliates who also receive funds from the EPA. Are any of these groups and affiliates who receive this money anti-American, yes or no?" Mace asked.
"None of these groups have received money," Regan said.
"I think we have to establish the point that none of these groups have received money," Regan said, before responding to an interrupting Mace by saying that "None of the groups have received money." "Are you familiar with the group called Climate Justice Alliance?" Mace asked, to which Regan replied in the affirmative.
"None of these groups that you have paraded up here have received one dime from EPA," Regan said, before doubling down on the claim several more times.
"None of the groups that were presented there have received one dime from EPA. People have applied for resources. We're going through a very thorough evaluation, and we have a process to determine who should and should not receive federal funding. Those are the facts." It would appear as though CJA - which describes itself as "Building a Just Transition away from extractive systems of production, consumption and political oppression" and believes that "The path to climate justice travels through a free Palestine" - passed the EPA's screening given that it is currently listed as a pass-through selectee of the agency's $600 million "Environmental justice" program.
The South Dakota-based Native American activist group advocates for the release of convicted cop killer Leonard Peltier, and also envisions a "Future where Black reparations and Indigenous LANDBACK co-exist" and "Where BIPOC collective liberation is at the core." The Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs, a regional grantee also set to receive $50 million from the EPA, essentially functions as an incubator for left-of-center activist groups, according to its website.
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