by Thomas Catenacci
Washington Free Beacon
Biden council members given hundreds of millions of dollars to disburse
Environmental groups represented on President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s own environmental justice council are among the largest beneficiaries of the president’s environmental programs, collectively receiving hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a database of federal grantsreviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.
In total, four leading environmental justice organizations—WE ACT for Environmental Justice, the Bullard Center for Environmental & Climate Justice at Texas Southern University, the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, and Kean University’s Center for the Urban Environment—have been awarded a staggering $229 million in Environmental Protection Agency grants and have been named as partners to grantees awarded another $200 million.
Leaders of those groups serve on the White House’s so-called Environmental Justice Advisory Council, which is formally housed at EPA, the same agency doling out the grants. The council provides the administration with “independent advice and recommendations on how to address current and historic environmental injustice,” the White House description notes…
“There’s never been any factual basis for the notion of environmental justice. Minorities are not more at risk from anything in the environment than anyone else,” Steve Milloy, a senior legal fellow at the Energy & Environment Legal Institute, told the Free Beacon. “The EPA grants data show what environmental justice is all about—massive financial self-dealing and political corruption.”
