House Oversight Demanding EPA Documents Following Allegations of Waste and Fraud

House Oversight Demanding EPA Documents Following Allegations of Waste and Fraud
A sign of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seen at its building in Washington on Sept. 21, 2017. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo
Savannah Hulsey Pointer
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The House Oversight and Accountability Committee’s Republican leaders are looking into alleged waste, fraud, and abuse in the Biden administration’s billion-dollar environmental justice award program.

Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.)—and Chairman of the Oversight Subcommittee on Economic Development, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas)—informed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan in a Feb. 27  letter that they had launched an investigation into the program.