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"Criminal Targeting Of Environmental Groups ‘Scary,’ Advocates Say"

"Groups now worry about FBI probes as they struggle to rebound from federal spending freeze enacted under President Donald Trump"

"Some grassroots environmental organizations have regained access to the millions of dollars they were promised through the Inflation Reduction Act. But now some see an even more menacing threat: prosecution.

The unease has grown as President Donald Trump’s attacks on them and their mission to help disadvantaged communities and curb climate change continues to escalate.

Leaders of these groups say they expect federal agents to start breathing down their necks any day now as Trump seeks to shred the climate initiatives of his predecessor, Joe Biden.

“It’s not a matter of if you will be audited, it’s a matter of when,” said Ashley Shelton, executive director of the Louisiana-based nonprofit The Power Coalition for Equity and Justice.

The first signs of that happened earlier this month when media reports surfaced that the Trump administration had ordered certain nonprofits receiving funding through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to hand over all their correspondence with EPA staff."

Terry L. Jones reports for Floodlight March 13, 2025.

Source: Floodlight, 03/14/2025