By Molly McVety, Delaware News Journal
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency canceled a grant that would monitor air pollutants near the Delaware City Refinery.
Around a year and a half after a $500,000 grant was approved under the Biden administration for the Clean Air Council to track areas around Delaware’s largest polluter, a letter was sent from the EPA’s grant management office to the nonprofit organization letting them know that its work is no longer aligned with the mission of the new administration’s EPA.
Dozens of similar grants were canceled the same day, under the logic that environmental justice initiatives are inherently discriminatory.
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