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Judge orders Citibank to release nonprofit funds, rejects EPA’s arguments


The judge also found that the nonprofits will “suffer imminent, irreparable harm” if they don’t gain access to their funding.

A federal judge Tuesday found the Environmental Protection Agency acted in an “arbitrary and capricious” manner when terminating contracts with three nonprofits. The EPA didn’t send the nonprofits formal termination letters until March 10, right before a scheduled hearing on the matter of the unreleased funds. That termination letter, though, “appears to contravene a duly enacted statute and interferes with [the nonprofits’] statutory rights to these funds,” Judge Chutkan wrote.

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