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But in the lawsuit, the coalition argued that the bill revoked only climate grants that the E.P.A. had not yet awarded. Under the Biden administration, the agency had awarded the Solar for All grants to 60 state agencies, nonprofit groups and Native American tribes.
The claim that the bill rescinded the Solar for All grants is “patently false and legally unsupportable,” said Jillian Blanchard, vice president of climate change and environmental justice at Lawyers for Good Government
Since the start of the year, environmental law groups—including Lawyers for Good Government, the Environmental Defense Fund, Earthjustice, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and others—have worked overtime to counter Trump’s rollbacks. These groups, largely philanthropically funded and traditionally focused on separate regions or issues, are now more coordinated than ever, says Kym Meyer, litigation director of the Southern Environmental Law Center.
Several signers have sought support from attorneys with the Government Accountability Project and Lawyers for Good Government, two whistleblower protection organizations.
“This is intimidation and patently violates the whistleblower laws,” Government Accountability Project Senior Counsel David Seide said of the investigation. “(These workers) filed a petition and were put on administrative leave immediately. That’s retaliation. Now they’re being investigated, and that’s retaliation too.”
Trans rights advocate Allison Chapman, a civil rights and health equity fellow at Lawyers for Good Government, criticized the FTC’s approach to the comment period.
“The FTC is clearly on a fishing expedition, looking for responses that will justify its predetermined position,” Chapman told Truthout. “The questions posed are written in a way that leads commenters toward the answers the FTC wants to receive.”
La abogada de derechos civiles Khadijah Silver del grupo Lawyers for Good Government (L4GG) aportó datos contextuales.
“Las personas transgénero constituyen el 1% de la población total en Estados Unidos, pero solo representan el 0,11% de los tiradores masivos”, según datos del Archivo de Violencia Armada.
Silver añadió que estadísticamente, los individuos transgénero son “significativamente menos propensos que la población general a cometer estos crímenes” y en cambio, tienen cuatro veces más probabilidades de ser víctimas de delitos.
On Tuesday, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court ruling that had found Houston County, Georgia’s health insurance policy— which denied coverage for gender-affirming surgeries—constituted sex discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
“This decision to withhold that care is steeped in animus and distorts the holding in Skrmetti to fit and further a discriminatory agenda, unlawfully expanding Skrmetti to apply to care for adults,” Khadijah Silver, Supervising Attorney of Civil Rights at Lawyers For Good Government, told LGBTQ Nation.