Inclusiv Statement on EPA's Unscheduled Request for Materials
New York, NY (March 28, 2025) - Inclusiv, one of five CCIA (Clean Communities Investment Accelerator) Green House Gas Reduction Fund grant recipients under contract with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, released the following statement:
On March 4, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) made an unscheduled request for materials to all Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) National Clean Investment Fund and Clean Communities Investment Accelerator (CCIA) awardees, seeking responses and supporting documentation for 35 individual items. Today, Inclusiv submitted our detailed response to that request to EPA and have also posted it on our website.
Inclusiv is pleased to be able to share these and other details about our CCIA program with the EPA. In our response letter, we reiterated our request to meet with EPA Administrator Zeldin to discuss our work and clarify apparently significant misunderstandings about our CCIA program and our decades-long track record of working with credit unions to responsibly and effectively deploy federal funds to spur economic development.
Many of the requested items are the EPA’s own materials or programmatic information to which EPA already has access. For example, the EPA requested its own documents, and dates and subjects of trainings offered by EPA. And, notably, EPA requested information it already has on CCIA program funds spent to-date, which EPA, as a secured party to our Account Control Agreement with Citibank, may directly inspect at any time. Requesting that Inclusiv provide a federal agency’s own records to itself, when these records are already in its possession, runs counter to the Trump Administration’s goal of increasing government efficiency and reducing waste.
As we continue to advocate for this important program, we are proud to note that, to date, more than 99% of committed funding will go to credit unions that, once the funds are unlocked, will use the funding to help families and small businesses across the country access affordable financing for energy efficiency and clean energy upgrades designed to lower their energy bills. And, to date, just 0.7% of the committed funding has been for Inclusiv’s direct program administrative costs. Despite the Administrator’s unlawful attempts to terminate the GGRF program, we continue to meet regularly with our Grant Managers at EPA and have submitted timely and accurate information in response to all scheduled and unscheduled CCIA program reporting deadlines and audits.
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