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Friday, October 2, 2026

The 1%

The LA Times recently reported a litigation settlement restoring about $19 million in research grants to UCLA, UC-Berkeley, and UC-San Francisco by EPA:

The Environmental Protection Agency agreed to permanently restore about $19 million in University of California research grants, including studies into wildfire-smoke health effects and water management, that it canceled... The settlement would resolve one part of a broader lawsuit, brought by a legal team that includes UC law school professors and additional attorneys, challenging roughly $2 billion in funding cuts across seven federal agencies...

Full story at https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-09-23/epa-uc-19-million-research-grant-settlement.

Note that the $19 million is about 1% of $2 billion.

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The settlement is at:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28678852-thakur-uc-researchers-vs-epa/

Information about the timeline of the litigation and about related documents is at:

https://ucresearchergrantterminations.com/EPA-Settlement/

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