November 27, 2015

Obama’s EPA Spending MILLIONS Overseas

President Barack Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency has doled out nearly $25 million to foreign nations and entities — including many countries with terrible environmental track records through 135 separate grants.

Officials at the EPA defend the awards to international organizations and foreign governments since 2009.

“Our limited international investments are focused where we can have the biggest environmental protection return,” EPA spokeswoman Melissa Harrison tells The Daily Caller News Foundation. “International grants allow the U.S. to engage internationally and address serious trans-boundary and global environmental problems affecting the public health and environmental quality of the US and its citizens.”

International grants represent less than one percent of the agency’s annual grant-making total, she says.

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