Politico’s Climate News Site Shutters A Year After Gov’t Turned Off Taxpayer Spigot

[rangerrebew]

Politico’s Climate News Site Shutters A Year After Gov’t Turned Off Taxpayer Spigot
 
Ireland Owens
Reporter
June 08, 2026
 


Politico is discontinuing an energy and environmental news product a little over a year after the government canceled a nearly half a million dollar annual subscription to it.

Politico on Monday announced plans to shutter E&E News and introduce two new energy-focused newsletters in September, Semafor first reported. The move comes after Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced in February 2025 that the agency “will not be renewing our membership with Politico and Politico E&E, saving the American taxpayers $458,919 per year.” (RELATED: EPA And Private Business Helps LA Wildfire Survivors Where City Won’t)

“Best $458,919 we ever saved on behalf of taxpayers,” a spokesperson for the EPA told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “The government shouldn’t subsidize poor journalism, and it’s a stinging indictment of the previous administration that they wasted so many hard-earned American tax dollars keeping this outlet afloat.”

EPA will not be renewing our membership with Politico and Politico E&E, saving the American taxpayers $458,919 per year.

— Lee Zeldin (@epaleezeldin) February 11, 2025

https://dailycaller.com/2026/06/08/politicos-climate-news-shutters-govt/

[rangerrebew]

That seems to be a common outcome when radical left groups have their taxpayer spigots turned off.

[Smokin Joe]

Kinda makes you wonder what else we have been paying for...