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Wisconsin friends (and those who can beam into Wisconsin): I'll be talking about the federal funding freeze and all sorts of other climate and environmental justice developments coming out of Washington TODAY at 2:30 CT. Register here. zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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JUST IN: The 1st Circuit Court of appeals has denied the Trump administration's emergency motion to block a court order that ordered agencies to lift their spending freeze.

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Yes to Elective Pay and to every single one of these Climate Mayors! @climatemayors.bsky.social www.climatemayors.org/post/electiv...

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Happy weekend to OMB's legal team.

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TIL that "I hate it here" is a Taylor Swift reference. www.wired.com/story/feds-h...

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How have your most used emojis changed over these past two weeks? 🫠

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Let 2025 go down in history as the year we all stopped enjoying being right. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/c...

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Join #AmericaIsAllIn this Thursday at 4 PM ET for a webinar on the impacts of recent actions from the new administration and the role of U.S. subnational climate leaders, featuring our director of the Cities Climate Law Initiative, Amy Turner (@amyturner.bsky.social) : https://buff.ly/3Err8oF

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Scene at Treasury

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I'm so looking forward to this America Is All In webinar on Thursday. It's an honor to join not only Gina McCarthy & Mayor Bibb, but also the many climate champions in govts, businesses & orgs across the country that will do the work over these next four years. www.americaisallin.com/webinar-goin...

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Over 1,000 EPA employees receive this email: "As a probationary/trial period employee, the agency has the right to immediately terminate you."

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DC federal judge did extend ban on Trump OMB funding freeze. TRO granted. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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A morning walk down 17th St NW sure hits different today.

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I spoke w/ @insideclimatenews.org about the lawlessness of the Solar for All freeze. "The president is not entitled to cut off agencies’ contractual obligations. Those contracts list only very specific circumstances in which EPA can withhold or cut off funding.” insideclimatenews.org/news/3101202...

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I ran $100 billion in Infrastructure and IRA programs at EPA. We obligated over $70 billion onto signed awards and contracts to protect public health and the environment. All that funding is currently frozen. Here are the facts… 🔌💡 1/X

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In the National Council of Nonprofits case, OMB has filed a motion to dismiss. As expected, they're trying to use their "to the extent permissible by law" language even while agencies continue to impound funds in excess of what the law permits. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69583...

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The federal funds are NOT unfrozen, despite the D.C. court's administrative stay.

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not clear to me if this really moots the case or not, but a court can keep a case live if a party engages in behavior "capable of repetition yet evading review." Basically you can't do a bunch of cute shit to moot a case and can keep putting the policy back in place

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We've updated this one with developments from last night and today. blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang...

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The chaos is the point. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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🚨 BREAKING: OMB has just issued a memo rescinding the previous memo freezing all federal financial assistance programs. Full text, per government source:

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. @kathykuntz.bsky.social is a local climate hero. Her message is such an important one for anyone doing this work. 🫶 daneclimateaction.org/OECC-Blog/Fo...

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Sean Duffy already looking to roll back CAFE standards. www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.go...

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Rep Don Bacon (R-Neb): "You talk to real people with real jobs, with missions, and I’ve heard from people in my district this morning asking me about it. This stuff is appropriated by Congress and it’s already been signed into law, so I’ll just say I disagree with it.” www.eenews.net/articles/law...

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Couple of things to note about Judge AliKhan’s stay order: - It is an administrative stay - a relatively short reprieve for the court to more fully consider the issues. - It applies only to “open awards,” i.e, signed grant agreements. New grant making or other spending is not affected.

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Reviewing OMB's submission in National Council of Nonprofits, and man if the chaos and confusion aren't the point. The argument basically goes that they published something on letterhead saying it isn't an impoundment so it isn't.

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Cannot overstate the prescience of the final 19 words of this skeet.

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Moments before a federal judge paused the agency spending freeze, @romany-webb.bsky.social and I published our assessment of what this all means. I hope you’ll read it if you’re interested - the judge gave us some time, but the uncertainty remains. blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang...

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Want to understand the legal implications of yesterday's OMB memo halting disbursements under federal funding programs, including IRA grant & loan programs? A new blog by @amyturner.bsky.social & I has some (but by no means all the) answers. blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang...

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And just like that, my new award from the @StateDept to help Pakistan grapple with air pollution and climate change is no more, thanks to this new administration

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There is simply no plausible argument that the president has the constitutional authority to refuse to spend appropriated funds because he doesn’t like how the money is being spent. The legality of policy impoundments is just not a close question.

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"Over the last four decades, federal grants to state and local governments have made up about 17 percent of their total revenues." www.pgpf.org/article/how-...

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Turns out packing-for-a-trip anxiety and end-of-federal-funding-as-we-know-it anxiety are remarkably similar. Or maybe that’s knowing that travel time will be spent updating slides on the current state of IRA implementation and who knows what will have happened by wheels down?

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Tomorrow's going to be a whole thing. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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NEW — OMB temporarily pauses all agency grants and loans programs. Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."

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It's happening - environmental justice staffers are being placed on leave. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

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