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An NAACP flyer campaigning for the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives in 1922, but was filibustered to defeat in the Senate. Dyer, the NAACP, and freedom fighters around the country, like Flossie Baily, struggled for years to get the Dyer and other anti-lynching bills passed, to no avail. Today there is still no U.S. law specifically against lynching. In 2005, eighty of the 100 U.S. Senators voted for a resolution to apologize to victims' families and the country for their failure to outlaw lynching. Courtesy of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

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Claude, age 23, just months before his 1930 murder. Courtesy of Faith Deeter.

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September 14, 2026

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The EPA lost its latest bid to claw back billions for clean-energy projects, but the money remains frozen as the administration prepares its next legal move.

**August 23, 2023** **Governor Healey joins local and federal officials and community leaders to highlight the projects that will be supported by EPA’s new $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund**. (Joshua Qualls, Wikimedia)

When the Environmental Protection Agency began canceling the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund in 2025 near the start of President Trump’s second term, EPA head Lee Zeldin declared it the end of “throwing gold bars off the Titanic.”

Created in 2022 by the Inflation Reduction Act and often referred to as a “green bank,” the program was considered former President Joe Biden’s hallmark move to address the growing climate crisis. It was designed to spur private financing for an array of clean energy projects, with an emphasis on Black and low-income communities.

Last month, a federal appellate court blocked the EPA’s efforts to freeze $20 billion in grants being administered by nonprofits for projects across the country to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The August 4 decision by the full 10-member Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia stated that the EPA wrongly canceled the grants “based solely on a policy disagreement.”

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