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EPA urged to axe funds for ‘radical’ climate project accused of training judges, state AGs rally
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First on Fox: Nearly two dozen Republican state attorneys general sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency chief Lee Zeldin Tuesday, calling on him to cancel funding to a left-wing environmental group accused of training and lobbying judges on climate policy, Fox News Digital exclusively learned.
«As attorney general, I refuse to stand by while Americans’ tax dollars fund radical environmental training for judges across the country,» Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen told Fox News Digital of his push to encourage the EPA to end its funding of the Climate Judiciary Project.
«The Environmental Law Institute’s Climate Judiciary Project is using woke climate propaganda, under the guise of what they call ‘neutral’ education, to persuade judges and push their wildly unpopular agenda through the court system,» he said. «I commend President Trump’s efforts to cut waste and abuse during the first eight months of his presidency, and I am optimistic that his Administration will do the right thing and halt all funding to ELI.»
Knudsen spearheaded the letter sent to Zeldin Tuesday, which included the signatures of 22 other Republican state attorneys general, calling for the EPA to axe its funding to the left-wing environmental nonprofit, called the Environmental Law Institute, which oversees the Climate Judiciary Project (CJP).
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Montana Attorney General Knudsen spearheaded a letter sent to EPA chief Lee Zeldin Aug. 26, 2025, calling for the EPA to end its funding to the Environmental Law Institute. (Getty Images)
The Environmental Law Institute founded the Climate Judiciary Project in 2018, which pitches itself as a «first-of-its-kind effort» that «provides judges with authoritative, objective, and trusted education on climate science, the impacts of climate change, and the ways climate science is arising in the law.»
The group, however, has been accused of trying to manipulate judges to make them more amenable to left-wing climate litigation.
The letter sent Tuesday called on the EPA specifically to end any grants and awards endowed to the group.
«We write to bring to your attention grants made by EPA to the Environmental Law Institute (‘ELI’),» the letter reads. «According to its 2024 financial statements, ELI received approximately 13% of its revenue in 2023, and 8.4% in 2024, from EPA awards. ELI also apparently still expected to receive funds from the federal government; its financial statement warned that the collectability of federal grant funds ‘is subject to significant uncertainty related to collectability and continual funding due to (the federal grant) funding freeze or other federal actions.’»
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The Environmental Law Institute received $637,591 from the EPA in 2024 and $866,402 in 2023 from the EPA, according to nonprofit tax documents published by ProPublica detailing the group’s federal expenditures that year.
«The Climate Judiciary Project’s mission is clear: lobby judges in order to make climate change policy through the courts,» 23 state attorneys general wrote in the letter. «An alumni magazine profile said the quiet part out loud, writing that the Climate Judiciary Project co-founder was ‘explaining the science of climate change to a group of people with real power to act on it: judges.’ The Climate Judiciary Project’s tampering raises serious legal and ethical questions.»
EPA administrator Lee Zeldin’s office was sent a letter Aug. 26, 2025, by 23 state attorneys general calling on the EPA to end funding to the Environmental Law Institute and its Climate Judiciary Project. (Al Drago)
The Environmental Law Institute, however, in recent comment to Fox News Digital, has maintained that its educational programs through Climate Judiciary Project are in accordance with the standards established by national judicial education institutions.
Climate Judiciary Project educational events are done «in partnership with leading national judicial education institutions and state judicial authorities, in accordance with their accepted standards,» a spokesperson for the group said in an emailed statement in July. «Its curriculum is fact-based and science-first, grounded in consensus reports and developed with a robust peer review process that meets the highest scholarly standards.»
«CJP’s work is no different than the work of other continuing judicial education organizations that address important complex topics, including medicine, tech and neuroscience,» an Environmental Law Institute spokesperson previously told Fox News Digital when asked about its educational programs.
The call for EPA to slash any funds to the Environmental Law Institute was celebrated by leading groups such as the American Energy Institute and the Alliance for Consumers, who lamented in comment to Fox Digital that taxpayer funds should not be used to fund the group and that «courtroom maneuvering» threatens day-to-day life.
«The State Attorneys General are right to call for the elimination of taxpayer funding for the Environmental Law Institute and its Climate Judiciary Project,» Jason Isaac, CEO of the American Energy Institute, told Fox Digital. «This is a coordinated campaign to advance the Green New Deal through the judiciary using so-called climate litigation in the courts. Its curriculum is developed by climate alarmist allies of the plaintiffs and delivered to judges behind closed doors. Public funds should never be used to finance political advocacy disguised as judicial education.»
O.H. Skinner, the executive director of Alliance for Consumers, which is a nonprofit focused on advocating on behalf of American consumers, remarked that «as we have long warned, the left has a plan to reshape American society by using lawsuits in courts all across the country, especially in places like Hawaii and other coastal enclaves.»
«The new wave of revelations about ELI is further concerning evidence of how committed the left is to imposing mandatory Progressive Lifestyle Choices through this courtroom maneuvering and how big a threat it really is to all our ways of life,» Skinner added.
A climate protester scales the Wilson Building as part of an Earth Day rally against fossil fuels April 22, 2022. (Getty Images)
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The Tuesday letter specifically argued: «State consumer protection laws prohibit deceptive and misleading statements to market a product. ELI is representing its training as objective when reality shows that it is not. State Attorneys General are responsible for protecting consumers, and we are concerned by ELI’s statements.»
The EPA has taken a hatchet to millions of dollars doled out under the Biden administration to left-wing groups and other programs deemed a waste of taxpayer funds upon Zeldin’s Senate confirmation as EPA chief in January.
The EPA under the Trump administration has canceled $20 billion in grants under the Inflation Reduction Act — which has led to an ongoing court battle. Zeldin said in March that the $20 billion in U.S. tax dollars were «parked at an outside financial institution in a deliberate effort to limit government oversight, doling out your money through just eight pass-through, politically connected, unqualified, and in some cases brand-new NGOs.»
The state attorneys general reflected on the previous cuts in their call to Zeldin to do the same to ELI funding.
«Under President Trump’s bold leadership, federal agencies and the Department of Government Efficiency have saved an estimated $190 billion, including terminating more than 15,000 grants that saved approximately $44 billion,» the letter states. «You have heeded President Trump’s directive and achieved monumental savings for taxpayers. You canceled $20 billion in climate grants under the Inflation Reduction Act. You cancelled another $1.7 billion in diversity, equity, and inclusion grants.3 And you canceled 800 environmental justice grants.»
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Climate Judiciary Project and the Environmental Law Institute previously have come under fire from lawmakers such as Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who accused the groups of working to «train judges» and «make them agreeable to creative climate litigation tactics.»
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The Texas Republican recently has argued there is a «systematic campaign» launched by the Chinese Communist Party and American left-wing activists to weaponize the court systems to «undermine American energy dominance.»
Climate Judiciary Project is a pivotal player in the «lawfare» as it works to secure «judicial capture,» according to Cruz, Fox Digital has previously reported.
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A trio of progressive Democrats backed by members of «The Squad» suffered blistering rebukes on Tuesday as Illinois voters rejected them in favor of more moderate candidates, prompting questions from onlookers about whether the party’s core, and momentum, should be entrusted to the far-left wing of its base.
To James Carville, a longtime Democratic strategist, the answer has been «no» for a long time. Talking to Fox News Digital in response to several progressive candidates losing in Tuesday’s Democratic primary in deep blue Illinois, he questioned the narrative that Squad-aligned progressives are gaining momentum.
«What momentum? About 15% of the Democratic Party identifies themselves as progressive. And what’s unique, they win about 15% in the primaries at most,» Carville said. «This was something I’ve dealt with all my life.»
«In New York, [Zohran] Mamdami got 50.5% — which is not overwhelming. That’s hardly the basis for some national movement,» Carville said, referring to the socialist mayor of New York City.
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Progressive candidates in the Illinois primary were largely unsuccessful against more moderate candidates. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
The progressive losses all came despite high-profile support from some of the most progressive figures in Congress.
Kat Abughazaleh, the 26-year-old Palestinian American running on an anti-establishment platform and promises to implement a «wealth tax,» attracted support from the likes of Rep. Rashida Talib, D-Mich., and Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn, but lost on Tuesday.
Defeated technology entrepreneur Junaid Ahmed told voters he would push for the self-determination of Gaza and implement healthcare for all, earning the support of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.
And Robert Peters, a state senator who raised $1.1 million on his track record of helping to end cash bail and raising the minimum wage at the state level, garnered backing from Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt, and Warren, but lost his bid for Congress to Cook County Commissioner Donna Miller.
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Between them, they raised $5.7 million.
Anthony Driver Jr., widely regarded as a progressive candidate in Illinois’ 7th District Democratic primary, lost to the more moderate, establishment-aligned Democrat, La Shawn Ford.
Driver was endorsed by Jayapal and the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
Liam Kerr, co-founder of the Welcome PAC, a group that supports moderate Democrats, believes their losses should give the party a clear takeaway.
«Illinois is just the latest reminder that the noise machine around far-left candidates rarely translates into actual votes,» Kerr said.
«There’s a real hunger in this party to win, and the candidates who keep losing are the ones more focused on ideological performance than tried and true economic concerns. The blueprint is simple: ditch the clout-chasing ideologues and invest in hard-working candidates who know their communities.»
Kerr’s framing was echoed by Jim Kessler, vice president of policy at Third Way, a Democrat think tank focused on moderate platforms.
«Illinois delivered a cold shower to the progressive fringe in the Democratic Party. Every winner was a mainstream Democrat. A lesson Democrats always have to relearn is that mainstream beats extreme,» Kessler said.
But to other onlookers, the results aren’t so definitive. Even as figures like Carville argue far-left policies aren’t a recipe for national success, others see the Illinois losses as far less decisive for progressives than critics suggest.
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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, center, speaks in Chicago. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Michael Ceraso, a veteran of the 2016 Sanders presidential campaign, pointed out that some of Tuesday’s winners can’t be swept neatly into the «moderate» camp. He doesn’t believe progressives really even lost the night at all.
«Daniel Biss is a progressive. The dude pushed climate and building regulations in Evanston,» Ceraso said, referring to the winner for Illinois’ 9th Congressional District — the candidate that beat out Abughazaleh.
Ceraso also noted that several candidates backed by Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker won out.
«The Illinois governor is a progressive. He backed [Juliana] Stratton,» Ceraso said, referring to the lieutenant governor and Senate candidate who won the Democratic nomination in a high-profile, competitive, contentious, and expensive primary showdown.
«[They] increased the minimum wage, ended the sub-minimum wage for disabled people and protected reproductive care. That’s what progress means: moving toward a goal that lifts others, not protecting the status quo.»
Still, other voices, like that of Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, noted that outside groups like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) had focused their attention on defeating the most progressive voices in the election.
«The real debate inside the Democratic Party is not whether progressive economic policies appeal to voters,» Green argued.
«It is whether candidates who genuinely believe in those ideas can compete against industries willing to spend millions to co-opt that message in support of candidates who will never actually challenge power,» Green said.
Having now cleared the primaries, Illinois will hold its general elections on Nov. 3.
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Qué leer gratis: cómo vivir sin ansiedad, los “desamores breves” y el pionero argentino de la ciencia ficción
Algunos creen que no hay salida, que desde que apareció el celular ya no se puede sacar la cara de la pantalla. Una salida posible es el libro: tirarse a leer a la sombra de sauce una buena historia atrapante. Pero quizás el problema no sea el soporte sino el contenido. ¿Y si en vez de estar scrolleando eternamente en las redes sociales nos sentamos a leer, en el mismo celular, un buen cuento, una novela, un ensayo, algo que nos lleve de paseo por otra vida, otro mundo, otra sensibilidad?
A continuación, tres libros que se pueden leer gratis en Bajalibros.
Las fuerzas extrañas, de Leopoldo Lugones
Las fuerzas extrañas, de Leopoldo Lugones, publicado en 1906, es un libro fundamental porque marca el nacimiento de la ciencia ficción y la fantasía en la literatura argentina. Aunque en su momento fue poco comprendido y no tuvo éxito comercial, la colección de cuentos imaginó experimentos y avances científicos que, décadas después, la propia ciencia acabaría confirmando. Lugones explora el conocimiento humano y la curiosidad científica en relatos que mezclan el asombro, la tragedia y el humor, anticipando temas que hoy atraviesan el género.
La importancia del libro reside en su capacidad para mostrar cómo la literatura puede ser un laboratorio de ideas y una puerta a futuros posibles. Cada cuento de Las fuerzas extrañas se convierte en una reflexión sobre los límites de la ciencia, la ética y la imaginación, invitando al lector a cuestionar la realidad y a considerar el impacto del progreso sobre la condición humana. Obras como “La fuerza omega”, “La metamúsica” o “Yzur” se adelantaron a debates contemporáneos sobre inteligencia artificial, la relación con los animales y los riesgos del conocimiento sin control.
Para un lector actual, Las fuerzas extrañas no es solo una curiosidad histórica: es una obra que sigue vigente porque plantea preguntas esenciales sobre el sentido del avance científico y el papel de la ficción como herramienta para pensar el presente y el futuro. Leer a Lugones hoy es reconocer la potencia de la literatura para anticipar y provocar cambios en la forma en que comprendemos el mundo.
(Des)Amores breves de Carolina Balbiani
Carolina Balbiani es periodista de Infobae. Los lectores la conocen. Escribe historias de amor y muerte con una intensidad impactante. Publicó varios libros. Uno de ellos se titula (Des)Amores breves, cuentos en el que hace foco en los efectos que el amor desbordante provoca en ciertas personas que no están preparadas para romper la vida cotidiana. Cuando el encanto de la pasión se vuelve un hechizo maldito.
“Son historias que nacen de historias que escuché y todas terminaban mal. Los finales felices son un poco bobos, me parece. Es un prejuicio mío, es totalmente arbitrario. Pero cuando me protestan por los finales, yo digo que si el día es lindo y está todo bien, no hay historia. Hay una idealización del amor fogoso, pero después decanta la vida. Y la vida es mucho más que la pasión. Intenté poner esas cosas que uno piensa y no dice. Como cuando hay gente que piensa que mejor no hubiera tenido un embarazo, o un romance, o una historia, pero no lo dice porque es políticamente incorrecto. Me gusta que el personaje pueda expresarse”, dijo la autora en una entrevista para Infobae con Patricia Zunini.
60 maneras de vivir sin ansiedad
En tiempos de mucho celular y la imposibilidad de una pausa reflexiva, viene muy bien la lectura. La lectura en general. Pero en particular, un libro: 60 maneras de vivir sin ansiedad. Técnicas sencillas, explicaciones dinámicas y buenas ideas para replantearse la vida cotidiana son algunas de las propuestas de este texto que se puede leer como una especie de guía para el bienestar personal.
Cómo dejar de ser perfeccionista cómo mejorar la organización cotidiana para ganar en armonía y bienestar o de qué manera alejar los pensamientos negativos y reducir la velocidad vertiginosa a la que vivimos figuran entre los temas centrales que ofrecemos aquí. Además los lectores encontrarán técnicas saludables para aliviar las tensiones del cuerpo y de la mente. Meditación, tai chi chuan, recetas naturales, relajación, masajes y mucho más.
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