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House Oversight Probes EPA Waste, Financial Conflicts

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Financial conflicts of interest and billions of questionable expenditures under the Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency are facing fresh scrutiny by House investigators.

In a letter Thursday, House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., and Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., asked EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin for a briefing, while also commending Zeldin for identifying waste, fraud, and abuse in the agency. 

The letter from Comer and Burlison, the chairman of the Oversight’s Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs, seeks more information on the EPA’s “allocation of funding resources to outside groups and its novel agreements.” 

Zeldin in February announced the Biden administration’s EPA parked $20 billion at Citibank to distribute climate grants to avoid oversight….

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