Thomasville, Ga. — U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff continues pressing to reverse the cancelation of a health clinic for Thomasville, Georgia.
This week, Sen. Ossoff is continuing to press the Trump Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin to restore grant funding that would strengthen quality of life in southwest Georgia.
After the grant was canceled, Thomasville Community Development Corporation Executive Director Earl Williams told WTXL Tallahassee, “We all worked so hard for this, and we won. And then, all of a sudden, one day, it’s gone. And it was just a great sense of disappointment. It was almost like I lost a good friend.”
In May, in a U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies hearing, Sen. Ossoff pressed Admin. Zeldin on why the Trump Administration canceled the Federal grant for Thomasville to open a new health clinic and upgrade wastewater infrastructure.
In the hearing, Zeldin said he would be willing to have a follow-up conversation with Sen. Ossoff about the grant. However, after Sen. Ossoff reached out for a meeting, the EPA never responded. Now, Sen. Ossoff continues pressing and fighting for Thomasville.
“I write to follow up my request for a meeting, sent May 23, to discuss EPA’s cancellation of a grant for Thomasville, Georgia, to build a new Federally-Qualified Health Clinic, install new wastewater infrastructure, upgrade homes for seniors, and construct a new shelter to protect residents during extreme weather,” Sen. Ossoff wrote to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin.
“You have repeatedly stated the EPA’s core mission is to protect human health and the environment, yet you cancelled a grant to build a new health center in an area that has experience high levels of pollution with reported high rates of leukemia and pneumonia,”Sen. Ossoff continued.
Click here to read the AJC’s coverage of Sen. Ossoff’s push to protect Thomasville.
Click here to read Sen. Ossoff’s letter to the EPA.
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