May 17, 2025
EPA cancels 400 environmental justice grants worth $1.7 billion
Federal courts rule EPA terminations violated Clean Air Act and APA; $180 million restored
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On May 17, 2025, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin canceled more than 400 environmental justice grants totaling $1.7 billion (Stateline: Environmental Justice Grant Cancellations)
Executive Order 12898, signed by President Clinton in 1994, directed federal agencies to address “disproportionately high” health and environmental effects on minority and low-income populations (Scientific American: Environmental Justice Order Revocation)
Over 90% of people living within one mile of the Denka synthetic rubber plant in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” are Black, and the plant emits chloroprene, which the EPA lists as a likely carcinogen (Reuters: EPA Environmental Justice Rollback; Reuters: Cancer Alley Chemical Emissions)
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Name the EPA Administrator who called environmental justice "an excuse to fund left-wing activist groups."
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Which toxic chemical at Louisiana's Denka plant is named by EPA as a likely carcinogen?
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Name the EPA administrator who called EJ “an excuse to fund left-wing activist groups.”
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How much money did EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin cancel in environmental justice grants?
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Justice40 aimed to send what share of climate-program benefits to disadvantaged areas?
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Lee Zeldin (EPA Administrator)
canceled over 400 environmental justice grants worth $1.7 billion (Stateline; Reuters)