Here is another $20 million saved for the taxpayers, from an Al Gore size climate change scam.
“The Environmental Protection Agency’s threat to cut loans for environmental justice programs has turned from promise to reality in the San Diego region.
The National City-based Environmental Health Coalition says the agency officially announced that their $20 million “Community Change Grant,” issued to the Coalition and the San Diego Foundation, was officially terminated earlier this month.
The grant, initially awarded to the San Diego Foundation and the Environmental Health Coalition, would have funded projects aimed at clean air and climate resilience initiatives in several underserved neighborhoods in San Diego, including Barrio Logan, Logan Heights, Sherman Heights, Stockton, Shelltown, Southcrest, Mount Hope and Grant Hill.
“Environmental justice”? This is a scam to buy the votes of minorities, has nothing to do with protecting people from bad air. Resilience initiatives? Fancy word for buying votes and another climate change scam.
EPA officially terminates $20 million for clean air projects in San Diego
by Philip Salata, inewsource, 5/16/25 https://inewsource.org/2025/05/16/epa-grant-san-diego-clean-air-terminated/?utm_source=Master+List&utm_campaign=0acb76e6ca-RSS_NEW_STORY_ALERT&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c99e73181c-0f117c3216-134721873&mc_cid=0acb76e6ca&mc_eid=dbb333bf07
Why this matters
Underserved communities, such as South San Diego’s portside neighborhoods, have suffered the impacts of industrial pollution. For decades community groups have been vying for resources to bring relief to low-income residents.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s threat to cut loans for environmental justice programs has turned from promise to reality in the San Diego region.
The National City-based Environmental Health Coalition says the agency officially announced that their $20 million “Community Change Grant,” issued to the Coalition and the San Diego Foundation, was officially terminated earlier this month.
The grant, initially awarded to the San Diego Foundation and the Environmental Health Coalition, would have funded projects aimed at clean air and climate resilience initiatives in several underserved neighborhoods in San Diego, including Barrio Logan, Logan Heights, Sherman Heights, Stockton, Shelltown, Southcrest, Mount Hope and Grant Hill.
According to the Coalition, the termination letter stated that their projects no longer aligned with the agency’s objectives.
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“This EPA Assistance Agreement is terminated effective immediately on the grounds that the remaining portion of the Federal award will not accomplish the EPA funding priorities for achieving program goals,” the letter said.
In response, EHC’s Executive Director Jose Franco Garcia said in the press release that the grant was terminated “because of who it was going to help – low-income communities of color who have unfairly suffered for generations from toxic, lung-damaging pollution and severe underinvestment.”
“This grant would have helped fund air filters for children with asthma, home upgrades for low-income families, non-polluting buses, and more in these neighborhoods,” he said.
Earlier this year the agency announced its mission was to slash regulations in favor of industry and that it would terminate environmental justice and “DEI arms” of its agency.
The grant paved the road for a number of projects including the decades-in-the-making Boston Avenue Linear Park. It also supported a program to improve air-quality the homes of low-income community members as well as several transportation and workforce development programs.
“Environmental justice is the simple idea that all people deserve to live, work, and play in a clean and safe environment no matter what their zip code is,” Garcia said.
The coalition is asking the state to fill the funding gap through Proposition 4 funds, California’s climate bond.
