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Subject: Meet the New Mega-Donors
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The Trump administration has canceled $400 million worth of grants and contracts to Columbia University, accusing the school of not doing enough to address antisemitic harassment of Jewish and Israeli students. The site of a pro-Palestinian encampment last year, Columbia has taken measures to satisfy the new administration, to the alarm of free-speech advocates, and said it will “work with the government to try to get the money back.” A former researcher at the university who continues to teach there, and is Jewish, called it a “falsehood” that Columbia is a hotbed of antisemitism, but the leader of a Jewish student group said the cutoff should be “a wake-up call to Columbia’s administration and trustees to take antisemitism and the harassment of Jewish students and faculty seriously.” (Associated Press)
An environmental group has sued the Environmental Protection Agency over a freeze on a $7 billion grant it was awarded last year. Climate United said it cannot access its account for the federal Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and therefore cannot make loans to businesses working on “solar power, electric trucks, and energy-efficient affordable housing projects.” Other nonprofits have also been shut out of their share of the $20 billion program. The agency did not respond to a request for comment, but its administrator, Lee Zeldin, “called the green financing program, pursued by the Biden administration, a ‘scheme’ that was ‘purposely designed to obligate all of the money in a rush job with reduced oversight.’” (New York Times)
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