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Chuck DarwinJudge demands ‘some kind of evidence’ from Trump’s EPA to halt climate grantsFederal judge Tanya Chutkan issues restraining order pending new filings over billions in axed research grantsA federal judge considering the Trump administration’s abrupt cancellation of climate research grants worth billions of dollars told government lawyers they had to produce “some kind of evidence” of wrongdoing to back up such drastic actions.Climate United, which coordinates investment in clean energy projects, sued to seek access to $7bn that was frozen before it was cancelled on Tuesday night by <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lee</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Zeldin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zeldin</a>, the New York Republican congressman turned administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.In US district court in Washington on Wednesday, Judge <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tanya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tanya</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Chutkan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chutkan</a> asked lawyers for the EPA: “Can you proffer any evidence that [the grant] was illegal, or evidence of abuse or fraud or bribery – that any of that was improperly or unlawfully done, other than the fact that Mr Zeldin doesn’t like it?”<a href="https://c.im/tags/Marc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Marc</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sacks</a>, a government lawyer, said: “The determination is based on the information contained in the termination letter.” Chutkan said: “That’s pretty circular,” then asked if Climate United had violated federal regulations.Sacks said: “I think the agency cited both of those regulations within their termination letter.” Chutkan said: “I can cite cases all day long, but you have to have some kind of evidence or proffer to back it up.” She also said: “You can’t even tell me what the evidence of malfeasance is.”There is plentiful evidence that Zeldin is implementing an assault on attempts to tackle the climate crisis. The EPA issued a slew of rollbacks of rules to combat pollution on Wednesday.Zeldin said he was “driving a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion and ushering in America’s Golden Age”. Climate groups reacted with horror. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jason" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jason</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rylander" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rylander</a>, legal director at the Center for Biological Diversity’s Climate Law Institute, told the Guardian: “Come hell or high water, raging fires and deadly heatwaves, Trump and his cronies are bent on putting polluter profits ahead of people’s lives. This move won’t stand up in court. We’re going to fight it every step of the way.”Climate United is not the only group to have sued over access to grants. In New York, the Coalition for Green Capital has sued over the cancellation of a $5bn grant, an act it called “patently and plainly unlawful on its face” and “arbitrary and pretextual”. In Washington, lawyers for Climate United argued that the EPA had not followed the law, meaning Chutkan could rule on the matter. Lawyers for the government said it was a contract dispute, so she could not. Chutkan said: “The government didn’t decide who it wanted to contract with. A new administration came in, didn’t like the contract any more. That’s what new administrations do. But there are procedures that have to be followed. And it doesn’t appear, at least on the record before me, that those procedures have been followed.”The hearing ended without Chutkan issuing a ruling or temporary restraining order, but asking both sides to make 👉new filings by Monday evening: Climate United to amend its lawsuit and the government to provide information about alleged wrongdoing. “I don’t have the credible evidence that’s required,” Chutkan said. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/13/epa-grants-trump-judge-tanya-chutkan?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/13/epa-grants-trump-judge-tanya-chutkan?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</a>

Michael BlumeGuten Morgen - Tässle Kaffee ☕️?In meinem Vortrag „Gegen <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/Antisemitismus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Antisemitismus</a> und <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/Zukunftsangst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zukunftsangst</a> - Gemeinsam für eine Kultur der <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/Hoffnung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hoffnung</a>“ für <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/Schw%C3%A4bisch_Hall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Schwäbisch_Hall</a> konnte ich erstmals die Zusammenhänge von <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/Alphabet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alphabet</a> & <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/Zeit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zeit</a> ausbuchstabieren. Mit viel Hans <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/Blumenberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blumenberg</a>, Rabbi <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/Sacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sacks</a> & Inge <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/Auerbacher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Auerbacher</a> inside! 🤓📚🕰️🤔 <a href="https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/gegen-antisemitismus-und-zukunftsangst-vortrag-in-schwaebisch-hall/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/gegen-antisemitismus-und-zukunftsangst-vortrag-in-schwaebisch-hall/</a>

Chuck DarwinSen. Elizabeth Warren on Friday sent a letter to Donald Trump’s crypto and AI czar <a href="https://c.im/tags/David" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#David</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sacks</a> raising concerns about potential conflicts of interest in his role and asked him to make his financial disclosures with the government public, days after Trump announced the creation of an American “crypto strategic reserveIn her letter, the senator asks Sacks how he has addressed his “conflicts of interest” and how he intends to prevent “the President and other private individuals from directly profiting off of the Trump Administration’s efforts to selectively pump the value of certain crypto assets.”Warren’s letter raises alarm at several moves made by the Trump administration on crypto recently, including the SEC’s assertion that meme coins are not securities, the regulator dropping its case against Coinbase and the pause in the case against crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun.Warren, who is a ranking member on the Senate’s banking committee, asks Sacks to reveal whether he has filed any financial disclosures with the Office of Government Ethics, if he has recused himself on any matter after accepting the role and how long he intends to serve as a “special government employee.”Warren’s letter also seeks disclosure on the exact dates Sacks divested Bitcoin, Ether, and Sol tokens from his portfolio (as per his claims) and the exact date his firm Craft Ventures divested from crypto asset manager Bitwise investments.Warren also wants Sacks to make several other disclosures covering his potential advanced knowledge of Trump’s crypto reserve announcement and how the Trump administration picked the tokens to be included in the reserve, among other things. <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2025/03/07/sen-elizabeth-warren-raises-conflict-of-interest-concerns-in-letter-to-trumps-crypto-czar-seeks-financial-disclosures/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2025/03/07/sen-elizabeth-warren-raises-conflict-of-interest-concerns-in-letter-to-trumps-crypto-czar-seeks-financial-disclosures/</a>

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