Govt Funding For Green Groups Skyrocketed After EPA’s 2009 Endangerment Finding
Federal grants to climate orgs jumped from $350M in 2009 to nearly $1.4B in 2023, new analysis finds.
by Brett Rowland September 29, 2025, 2:59 PM
Changes to the Environmental Protection Agency’s strict regulations on the automobile industry could cost nonprofit groups that reported a 267% funding bump in the years since the federal agency’s 2009 Endangerment Finding, a rule that provided a legal basis for the agency to regulate vehicle emissions and the energy industry through the Clean Air Act. [emphasis, links added]
Democracy Restored, a nonprofit dedicated to showing how government works, reviewed the tax returns of more than 75 of the top nonprofit organizations focused on climate change.
Funding for those 75 groups has increased significantly since 2009, with their bottom lines moving from about $3 billion to $8 billion, since the most recently available tax returns were made public, said Houston Keene, director of Democracy Restored.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/govt-funding-soared-climate-groups-epa-endangerment/
