The administrator of the United States of America Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin, cancelled 400 DEI and Environmental Justice grants worth $1.9 billion.
Zeldin disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday on X, noting that the grants cancellations cut across nine different programmes.
The development comes amid efforts by the Department of Government Efficiency to probe the agency.
According to him, the agency’s total savings from the exercise would stand at $2 billion.
“I am cancelling over 400 Divisity, equity and inclusion and Environmental Justice grants across 9 grant programmes totalling $1.7 BILLION, bringing @EPA’s total savings to over $2 BILLION!
“This fourth round of EPA/Doge cuts was our biggest yet,” he said.
Reacting, DOGE said, “Great work… these cancellations of non-essential grants/contracts included $3.2M to a consulting firm to “develop a reporting system to collect data on Justice40, the EJ scorecard, and other EJECR reporting asks.”
US EPA cancels 400 non-essential grants worth $1.9bn, saves $2bn
