by Willy Blackmore

When the Green House Gas Reduction Fund was established under the Inflation Reduction Act, lawmakers not only earmarked a dollar amount that would be invested through the so-called green bank program, but where investments from the $20 billion fund should be made.

The bulk of the money, some 70%, was supposed to be spent in low-income and disadvantaged communities — communities where there are likely to be many Black people.

It now seems unsurprising, then that the Environmental Protection Agency, under its Trump-appointed Administrator Lee Zeldin, has gone after this huge environmental investment fund focused on frontline communities, moving to cancel it entirely earlier this year despite all the funds having already been awarded to various nonprofit groups. But last

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