“The executive power does not have the authority to change the policy, simply because they don't like them,” said Blanchard during a virtual briefing for reporters on Friday. “The congress makes the law, not the president and certainly not Elon Musk,” she said, referring to the billionaire donor that Trump has collected to lower government spending.
Freezing
Throughout the country, spending has freezed the programs for the environment, the resilience and community improvement in chaos in chaos that the congress has authorized in the inflation reduction law of 2022. Under the efforts on hold: clean drinking water, air monitoring, hurricane repair and electric school buses .
“Real people are hurt on the spot by the Stop-Starts situation,” said Blanchard, whose group collaborates with the Natural Resources Defense Council on the affairs of 230 beneficiaries in 44 states.
The ready are in a state of confusion because they have not heard directly from EPA, she said.
Michelle Roos, executive director of the Environmental Protection Network, a coalition of former EPA employees who also collaborate with lawyers for a good government, said that many beneficiaries are not sure what is happening, because the employees of the agency are forbidden to be with people Outside the desk.
Several beneficiaries reached by Inside Climate News said they didn't talk to the press, or did not want to say whether or not they had access to their financing.
MDC, a non -profit in Durham, North Carolina, together with the Spanish Federation, was supposed to receive a $ 3 million change fair for environmental justice community for emergency recovery and resilience programs in Latino areas in the east of North Carolina.
“We were very happy to receive federal support to do this work, but unfortunately, like many others, we experienced an interruption when accessing this financing,” said Clarissa Goodlett, Director of MDC.
