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FBI, EPA, and Treasury told Citibank to freeze funds as Trump administration tries to claw back climate money


The accounts were frozen in February, but documents filed today make public details which had previously been unknown.

The accounts were frozen in February, but the new documents make public details that had previously been unknown, including a full list of the nonprofits under FBI scrutiny. The FBI has requested that Citibank place 30-day administrative freezes on accounts held by nonprofits that were recipients of the green bank funding. EPA administrator Lee Zeldin has said that the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund doesn’t align with the agency’s priorities and that he has concerns about fraud, though he has not provided evidence to support that claim.

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