Millions of Dollars of Maine "Green" Graft Projects May Have Just Been Killed

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EPA Administration Says $20 Billion Grants to Climate Groups Are Now Terminated

The move was announced in a post on Tuesday
Jack Phillips
3/12/2025Updated: 3/12/2025

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administration confirmed Tuesday that $20 billion in what it called “gold bar” grants to eight recipients has been terminated.

“It is my commitment to President Trump, Congress, and you, that EPA will be an exceptional steward of your tax dollars,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said in a post on social media platform X, adding in a video that it’s a “high priority” to terminate those programs and that he has “officially terminated these grant agreements.”

Last month, in a video posted on X, Zeldin said the EPA would try to rescind $20 billion in grants awarded by the Biden administration for climate and alternative energy projects.

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The program, approved under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, is formally known as the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, but is more commonly called the “green bank.” Two initiatives, worth $14 billion and $6 billion, respectively, are intended to offer competitive grants to nonprofits, community development banks, and other groups, for projects with a focus on what are said to be disadvantaged communities.

The money has already been awarded to eight nonprofits, including the Coalition for Green Capital, Climate United Fund, Power Forward Communities, Opportunity Finance Network, Inclusiv, and the Justice Climate Fund. Those organizations have partnered with a range of groups, including Rewiring America, Habitat for Humanity and the Community Preservation Corporation.

Zeldin added in a video released Tuesday that the FBI and the Department of Justice are both investigating the funds. The money has since been frozen, he added.

“Not only does EPA have full authority to take this action but frankly, we were left with no other option,” he said. The terminations announced Tuesday were done because the programs, he said, were in violation of the EPA’s statutory objectives and were misaligned with the administration’s focus.

“The only way we can reduce waste ... is by terminating these grants,” Zeldin, a former Republican congressman, said in the video.

Zeldin said last month that in meetings with members of Congress before he was confirmed, he “made a very important commitment to them and to the American people” and added that he wants a “full accounting” of EPA funds.

“The days of irresponsibly shoveling boatloads of cash to far-left activist groups in the name of environmental justice and climate equity are over,” Zeldin said at the time.

Green energy advocates denounced the EPA’s recent actions as a political stunt and said Zeldin is illegally attempting to revoke spending approved by Congress for partisan reasons. They pledged to challenge the directive in court.

“This is not just an attack on clean energy investments—it’s a blatant violation of the Constitution,” said Lena Moffitt, executive director of Evergreen Action, an environmental group that supports the project, in a statement last month. “The Trump team is once again trying to illegally slash programs meant to help American families to fund tax cuts for billionaires.”

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THE UNTOLD STORY OF RECORD HILL WIND

The Untold Story of Record Hill Wind, continued

 

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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT

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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/

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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future

"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."

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