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

The move was announced in a post on Tuesday.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin speaks as Vice President JD Vance visits the East Palestine Fire Department in East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 3, 2025. Residents of East Palestine, Ohio, were forced to evacuate in February 2023, when a Norfolk Southern train carrying chemicals derailed, covering the area in thick black smoke. Rebecca Droke/POOL/AFP

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.”