Biden EPA Cuts Big Check For Pro-Defund The Police Activists To Pursue ‘Climate Justice’ For Convicts

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is sending up to $3 million to an activist group that advocates for slashing police budgets and prison closures to pursue “climate justice” for convicts and “reentry communities.”

The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (Baker Center) and the Insight Garden Program were selected for receipt of between $1 million and $3 million to pursue “Environmental and Climate Justice in Prison and Reentry Communities.” The Baker Center has previously endorsed or advocated for left-wing activist positions like defunding the police, effectively decriminalizing shoplifting, closing prisons and more.

The funding that the Baker Center is receiving comes from a roughly $2 billion “Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change” EPA grant program endowed by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), President Joe Biden’s signature climate bill, according to the EPA. The Baker Center is the partner organization to the Insight Garden Program, which was the lead applicant.