Overview
- Committee leaders Brett Guthrie, John Joyce and Gary Palmer sent a Nov. 5 letter to Administrator Lee Zeldin requesting complete grant records for all GGRF awardees.
- Lawmakers seek full applications, scoring breakdowns, due-diligence checklists and briefing materials, names of review and selection officials, account reports from Citibank and Treasury, and progress reports for NCIF and CCIA grantees.
- The Inflation Reduction Act funded a $27 billion GGRF, with $20 billion awarded to eight nonprofits—$14 billion under the National Clean Investment Fund and $6 billion under the Clean Communities Investment Accelerator.
- Parallel inquiries by the EPA inspector general, the Department of Justice and the FBI remain active, and court filings show investigators prompted Citibank to freeze certain accounts tied to the grants.
- Legal battles continue after EPA cancellations of grant agreements; a Sept. 3 appeals court ruled Judge Tanya Chutkan overstepped by blocking clawbacks, and further appeals are possible.