The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is withholding $60m in funding from the Climate Justice Alliance (CJA), more than a year after the group called for a ceasefire in Gaza, Al Jazeera reports citing according to the Verge, a US news site.

The money was allocated to the CJA under an EPA grant programme funded through the Inflation Reduction Act, and the alliance is the only group out of 11 selected organisations that is yet to receive any funding.

Now, with the incoming Trump administration promising to rescind any unspent funds allocated under the Inflation Reduction Act, the CJA is at risk of losing the money altogether, the Verge reported.

“What this would do is further strip away funds that our communities have been counting on,” CJA Executive Director KD Chavez told the Verge, noting that the funding would go to projects for local cleanups and air quality monitoring.