The accounts were frozen in February, but documents filed today make public details which had previously been unknown.

Citibank was following requests from the Trump White House when it froze the accounts of several nonprofits last month.

In a court filing, the bank said it was informed that the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund was under an active criminal investigation.

The Trump administration has ordered Citibank to freeze a $20 billion fund for pop-up climate groups provided by then-lame-duck President Joe Biden’s EPA because it is tied up in a criminal ...

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A nonprofit that was awarded nearly $7 billion by the Biden administration to finance clean energy and climate-friendly projects has sued the Environmental Protection Agency, accusing it of improperly ...

The lawsuit filed Monday claims that the bank is preventing the nonprofit from abiding by its contract with the federal ...

Lawsuits are piling up against the bank as it faces pressure from the Trump administration to freeze climate funding. A third nonprofit that was awarded money through EPA’s green banking program ...

March 8 (Reuters) - An environmental nonprofit sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Citibank on Saturday, seeking billions of dollars for solar and other projects frozen by the bank ...

Climate United alleges it is owed about $7 billion, part of $20 billion that has been swept up in a controversy with EPA ...