The House Oversight and Accountability Committee’s Republican leaders are looking into alleged waste, fraud, and abuse in the Biden administration’s billion-dollar environmental justice award program.
Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.)—and Chairman of the Oversight Subcommittee on Economic Development, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas)—informed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan in a Feb. 27  letter that they had launched an investigation into the program.
The two Republican leaders asked for documents, information, and a staff briefing, and gave the agency a deadline of March 6 to schedule a briefing with the committee.
The agency was given until March 13 to remit the requested documents on the Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving Program (EJCPS) Cooperative Agreement Program, and the Environmental Justice Government-to-Government (EJG2G) Program….