The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is spending $13 billion on funds towards “environmental justice” and “climate change.”
QUICK FACTS:
- The EPA received $13 billion in funds from President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act to advance “environmental justice” and fight “climate change.”
- According to the EPA’s principal deputy assistant administrator Joseph Goffman, the agency has “the unprecedented opportunity to make lasting progress to equitably protect people and the planet from air pollution and climate change.”
- The EPA’s website claims the “historic amount of funding” will focus on programs such as reducing methane emissions and transportation.
- “We are eager to engage with all who have a stake in the success of these efforts, and our next steps will be guided by the wisdom and experience from the conversations we have and the feedback we receive over the next several months,” Goffman said.
REPUBLICANS IN THE HOUSE OVERSIGHT AND REFORM COMMITTEE ON THE SPENDING:
“Wasteful spending on a radical left-wing agenda is par for the course for this administration and has led to historic inflation,” the committee wrote last month.
BACKGROUND:
- Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law in August 2022, calling the legislation “one of the most significant laws in our history.”
- The Joint Committee on Taxation found that the bill included almost $370 billion in spending and tax credits related to climate and energy.
- Republicans compared the bill to Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) “Green New Deal” proposal in 2019, which he claimed would cost taxpayers $16.3 trillion.
- “It raises serious questions as to why HHS is now spending millions of taxpayer dollars and expanding the federal bureaucracy when Americans are struggling to pay their energy bills, buy gas and groceries, and pay for transportation to and from work,” Republicans on the House Oversight and Reform Committee said last month.
